The Lesson Trump Understands

Here is the part of Trump’s thinking that terrifies the foreign-policy establishment.

He doesn’t believe America must fix the world.

He believes America must defend itself decisively.

That difference eliminates the endless middle phase that swallowed entire administrations.

Hanson captures it bluntly:

“There is no nation-building. Trump sees the United States as responsible only for lighting the fuse of revolution, then giving the oppressed the chance of something better if they do not miss their chance.”

This idea sounds radical only because Washington abandoned it decades ago.

Historically, wars had clear endings.

Victory.

Defeat.

Or deterrence.

Trump revived that simplicity

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President Donald Trump has long been a disruptor of expert orthodoxy. His critics frequently portray that disruption as recklessness. But the results, at times, have forced even skeptical observers to reconsider assumptions that once seemed permanent.

The Abraham Accords are one example. For decades experts insisted that peace between Israel and Arab states required first resolving the Palestinian issue. Trump ignored that theory and pursued direct normalization agreements instead. The result was a diplomatic breakthrough many analysts previously declared impossible.

History offers countless reminders that consensus can be spectacularly wrong.

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, most Soviet specialists believed the USSR would endure for decades. Before the 2008 financial crisis, economists insisted the banking system was stable. Before the internet revolution, media experts predicted newspapers would remain the unchallenged gatekeepers of information.

Experts are not useless. Knowledge and experience matter. But expertise becomes dangerous when it transforms into unquestioned authority.

At that point it stops being analysis and starts becoming ideology with footnotes.

The American public has begun to notice this pattern.

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Things will start ramping up soon.

Trump wants this war over, because it will be more crow served to Democrats. And a lesson for RINOs.

With a win like this under his belt, he will only add to his persona. WINNING!

I loved that he moved 2500 Marines to the Persian Gulf. Then when asked how long would the war last, he said essentially, “It doesn’t matter. We will fight until we win”.

Trump won’t lie to the American people about the war because he doesn’t want a protracted engagement that allows Democrats to gain traction.

The amount of devastation that will be caused in Iran will depend on the ousted Mullahs.

Pres Trump said the following:

From the very beginning of this journey, I have been on a mission to rescue our nation from a failed and corrupt political establishment.

I will NEVER QUIT, I will NEVER BEND, I will NEVER BREAK, and I will NEVER YIELD, not even in the face of death itself!

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