A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--August 9, 2025
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What is it with television personalities and politicians deciding what We, the People believe, that they know how all of us think?
Here’s the plain fact for both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mark Levin as they sling mud at each other: neither one of you can speak for all of us because not one of us MAGA are exactly in lockstep with one another.
MTG can rightly claim to represent the wishes of her district because she was voted into office by her constituents. She can’t however, assume that every one of us in the MAGA movement agree with her one hundred percent. Nor can Mark Levin assume that his opinion is unequivocally shared by the majority of MAGA conservatives.
The trouble is both of them, and others, that assume their perspective is the only one that Trump voters agree upon. That is unreasonable, nor is it supportable to presume their opinion is the singularly correct one.
Certainly, those who voted for Donald J. Trump and candidates whom he backed (although unenthusiastically in certain instances) want to step back from involvement overseas. Mostly, they agree that engagement in Ukraine is not in our national interest. Despite Biden giving the green light for Putin to literally cross the line —remember how he said he didn’t know “when” Russia would invade, inviting Putin to do so at will—the USA has no vested interest in being embroiled in Eastern Europe.
Neither are true allies, and neither are they true enemies. They are basically neutral political agents to us in that we wish to keep them from joining hands with avowed enemies, such as China. Except for the folly of previous democrat administrations meddling in Ukraine’s affairs, and NATO abrogating its promise to Russia to maintain it as a buffer state, the USA would not be dealing with this dilemma.
It’s generally agreed that Trump supporters have had a singular voice in calling for a completely hands-off attitude toward the Russia-Ukraine war, that should never have begun but for Biden and the EU’s warbucks encouragement. MAGA has, as a whole, vociferously condemned spending a penny to prop-up corrupt Zelenskyy.
Levin seems to be of a different opinion and isn’t ready to pull the plug on flushing billions of dollars down the broken sewer pipe that is Zelenskyy’s dictatorship. (What else would you call a regime that has jailed political opposition and suspended elections?)
On this point, MTG and Levin definitely disagree, and MAGA holding with the representative from Georgia.
Where MTG has overstepped her presumptions about the complete MAGA contingent, is her wrongly throwing around the word ‘genocide’ when referring to the difficult situation in Gaza. Evidently, she takes Hamas Paliwood’s propaganda at face value. Israel is the one that responded to the Hamas’ barbarism of October 7, whether or not allegations of withheld or miscarried intelligence is ever substantiated. (Above link to transcript is rife with misspellings. Gotta love AI.)
Hamas’ unabated frenzy of murdering noncombatant civilians is more associative with the term genocide because it was incited by the claimed intention of wiping Israel off the face of the earth.
It is not applicable to Israel’s incursion into a professed enemy state on its southern border that Israel was pressured to allow to be formed. Of any other nation on earth, Israel has always conducted its battles with a proven humanitarian aspect by doing everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties. A virtual impossibility due to the Gaza governing terror regime’s propensity for hiding combatants in schools, hospitals, and private homes, making them into battle stations to store ordnance and fire rockets at Israel.
The devastation that has rained down on Gaza has been of their own creation by voting Hamas into power and having supported its rule. Gaza was built as a concrete refugee camp by its captors— Hamas—for no other purpose than to attack its neighbor. All the Arab states surrounding the tiny nation of Israel stood by, tacitly approving of the reign of terror on their own doorsteps.
Yet, these same Arab states refuse to accept refuge seekers from the corrupt and now demolished Gaza strip. Why? Because they are well aware that inviting terror sympathizers into their countries could cause civil havoc.
That Gaza has become little more than rubble is laid at the feet of the Gazans themselves, not the Israeli forces that have done all they could to clear out terror cells and collapse hundreds of miles of tunnel hideouts and weapons caches.
All the while, Israel and other nations have worked to provide the civilian population, terror confederates or not, with food and necessities. The efforts have been obstructed, the supplies stolen by Hamas, who then sell the goods to the already plundered populace for the purpose of re-arming themselves. Per World Israel News: “The UN itself has admitted that 94% of the aid entering the Strip by truck in the last two weeks has been looted on the way to warehouses, although it would not blame Hamas directly for the thefts.”
This is not genocide. It is survival for Israel.
The “Palestinian” and Arab terror network that surrounds Israel was the brainchild of antisemite United Nations and money moguls. Was it their intention to bring as much of the world’s Jewry congregated into one place to facilitate a true genocide against them? At this point in time, it seems almost plausible as no one, no country, no international organization is offering any viable solution to dealing with the chaotic terror base that Gaza appears to have been from its creation. Follow the billions that supported Yasser Arafat, and the Ayatollah Khomeini in exile.
Instead of partnering with Israel to disperse and receive refugees so Hamas can be finally dismantled, every so-called ally or neighbor is abandoning and reviling the small nation for attempting to remove the threat that the world-at-large built.
Ukraine is not an ally but Israel is. Ukraine has recourse to treat with Russia and keep its sovereignty.
Israel is surrounded by hate-filled enemies, yet shows mercy in battle wherever possible. Has any other nation in history done the same? The answer is “no.”
Still, Israel is disavowed, denigrated, and despised for having reclaimed their ancient homeland that was never the location of any kind of “Palestinian” state. Too many forget that Theodore Herzl led the way by purchasing the land back from the Ottoman Empire before the British Mandate was established.
Politicians, influencers, and media personalities (‘journalist’ isn’t applicable here) need to curb their language, and learn factual history before equating Israel with the Third Reich that institutionalized the extermination of the very people who now populate Israel.
The underrated genocide that was cultivated in America…
Genocide is correctly applied to the anti-human practice of abortion that, engendered here in America, inspiring the annihilative policies of Nazi Germany, has been exported worldwide. Recall that the term “unfit” human was derived from the Abortion League movement founded by Margaret Sanger that became Planned Parenthood.
Before America Firsters start touting America Only, it behooves them to recognize that we can’t take back the evil of spreading the lethal disease of abortion via morally bankrupt philosophies and government initiatives. It can’t be denied that misguided (were they?) administrations delivered “vaccine” programs to poorer nations that developers, like Bill Gates, meant to cripple and eliminate “unfit” populations.
It is disingenuous to tell MAGA that we should focus “only” inward after abortion and ill-conceived medical care have been disseminated worldwide, directed by elitist non-profits, such as Planned Parenthood, with government cash.
Finally and thankfully, under President Trump, finances have been cut for international implementation of abortion and side-effect laden inoculation programs by shutting down USAID. By defunding Planned Parenthood, it must now seek private financing from pathological donors to stay in the business of murdering innocents by abortion and transgender therapy. This calls for the question of how we, as a people, may compel morality amid flimsy application of First Amendment protection for promulgating unconscionable deeds. The answer is in finding whether those deeds are unconstitutional, in which case, so is the funding.
America First is the policy of necessity to protect our shores from invasion and domestic enemies, many of whom are embedded in the administrative state that’s facilitated our “sharing” immoral policies.
Shutting ourselves off from the world’s evils by calling for “America Only” isn’t a responsible attitude. It ignores our influential role, albeit historically inadvertent on the part of the American majority. The USA mustn’t become embroiled in the Ukraine, for reasons covered earlier, or other regional conflicts, but we have a duty to support allies in a moral cause without involving troops.
We’ve been taking two steps forward and practically leaping backward as MTG and others within MAGA dutifully write-off Israel while giving lip service to the beleaguered nation’s support. The USA doesn’t need to have troops or “advisors” in country to be a good friend.
Luke 11:5-8, Proverbs 3:271
President Trump’s diplomatic efforts embody the focus of America First policies, including having our allies’ back when necessary.
1. NKJV Luke 11:5 And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’: 7 and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? 8 say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
Proverbs 3:27 Do not withhold good from [f]those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do so. 28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give it,” When you have it with you.
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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.
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