Folks, can you believe it? Trump just pulled off the impossible! While the liberal media was busy prepping their “Trump’s gonna start World War III” headlines, our favorite President was busy brokering peace. Sleepy Joe could never!
Donald Trump, in a move that’s got the Deep State scrambling for their fainting couches, has emerged victorious from the latest dust-up with Iran. They hurled some missiles, we barely flinched, and now Trump’s declaring “PEACE!” on Truth Social. Because that’s how winners do it, folks.
The man’s a genius! He bombed Iran’s nuke sites back to the Stone Age and then, like a boss, announced a ceasefire. Sure, the ceasefire might be as stable as Biden on a bicycle, but who cares? Trump’s a peacemaker now, baby!
He’s even predicting that Iran and Israel will never “be shooting at each other again.” Now, I’ve heard some wild claims in my day, but if anyone can pull it off, it’s Trump.
But did we REALLY obliterate Iran’s nuclear program? Or is this just another “Trump mirage,” as the liberal media so lovingly puts it? Who cares! The point is, Trump’s winning, and the libs are losing their minds!
If this peace thing sticks, it’ll be a huge win for Trump and a massive blow to the globalist warmongers. But can the world handle Trump being right about everything?
And what about Israel? Will Netanyahu stop being so darn hawkish? And will Iran finally get a clue and realize that America ain’t playing games anymore? Only time will tell, but one thing’s for sure: Trump’s in charge, and the world better get used to it.
Trump can now claim the most significant foreign policy and military success of his time in the Oval Office. He made a bet that many skeptics saw as irresponsible — that he could hammer Iran’s nuclear plants without plunging the US into a new Middle East quagmire to mirror Iraq.
While Trump might have initially been uneasy about Israel’s assault on Iran, which seemed calculated to draw him in, he asserted control and exploited an opening to severely degrade Iran’s nuclear program with little cost to the US.
If the conflict cools now, Trump may get a domestic political boost, at least in the GOP, and be able to heal rifts in his MAGA base, where some supporters felt he has broken his promise to start no new wars.
The crisis also gave important insights into Trump’s second presidency. It revealed that he’s neither a tool of the remnant Republican hawks nor the “America First” populists. The president is also determined to try again to get a deal with Iran to end its nuclear program through negotiations.
He committed the US to military action without preparing the nation ahead of time and politicized the mission by keeping top Democrats out of the loop. And he’s still not shown Americans intelligence that he used to justify the attacks on the grounds that Iran was weeks away from a weapon.
Trump also snubbed US allies and mocked their peace efforts. This was the clearest sign yet of a volatile new global age when the US has decoupled from its alliances and will ruthlessly pursue its own national interests.
The critical question arising from the conflict is unanswered.
But in his late-night national address on Saturday, Trump said the objective of the mission was “the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed to the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
Early estimates suggest that the Iranian facilities at Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow were severely damaged. Trump, meanwhile, is convinced that his strategy will bomb Iran back to the negotiating table to talk about a replacement for President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, which Trump trashed in his first term.
“From a nonproliferation perspective, Trump’s decision to strike Iran was a reckless, irresponsible escalation that is likely to push Iran closer to nuclear weapons in the long term,” said Kelsey Davenport of the Arms Control Association.
Nonproliferation expert Joseph Cirincione told CNN’s Phil Mattingly on “The Lead” that it was impossible to bomb away Iran’s knowledge or enriched uranium and that it could build back its facilities.
Iran’s lobbing of missiles toward a vast US base in Qatar, easily thwarted by US and Qatari counter-measures, revealed weakness after it ceded control of its own airspace to Israeli jets. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ regional network was once seen as Iran’s insurance policy against Israeli attacks on its nuclear program.
Israel is now a dominant regional power. And US allies like Saudi Arabia and Qatar are ascendent in a transformed Middle East.
Politics are also turbulent in Israel. Netanyahu’s unwillingness to reach a ceasefire with Hamas and this zeal to take the fight to Iranian soil are widely seen as a ruse to stay in power amid personal scandals and to forestall an accounting of the October 7, 2023, attacks on his watch.
The Trump-Netanyahu dynamic will also be intriguing. The US president never stops looking for leverage. If he has the inclination, he could exploit the huge debt Israel now owes him to push for a peace agreement in Gaza.
This latest scary episode of the Trump show may be about to wrap up.
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Former remote-throwing champion turned #1 couch commentator on liberal panic in the media. Born in Texas (or so his mug says), he earned a degree in Fake Newsology & Beer Philosophy from YouTube University.
