Trump didn't blink

By Olivia Pierson

On March 26 President Trump laid out an important truth: NATO countries have done absolutely nothing to help sort out that “lunatic regime” in Iran, which by all accounts has been militarily smashed to bits. “The USA needs nothing from NATO,” he said calmly.

Before Trump even became President in 2016, he said then he was going to “rethink NATO.”  I guess he's done just that.  

I caught the Promethean Action live stream, also on March 26th, and Barbara Boyd hit the nail on the head: “He did not blink. He is reordering the entire world.”

Too right.

While the usual suspects in Brussels and the City of London clutch at their pearls, Trump is quietly dismantling the tired old post-war racket that’s been bleeding America dry for decades. No more playing the world’s unpaid security guard for fair-weather friends who talk a big game but deliver sweet FA when push comes to shove. This is Trump giving the middle finger to Atlanticism.

That fact ought to make Tucker Carlson leap for joy and love his president again, but sadly it won’t as he’s too neck deep into his anti-individualist, antisemitic Duginist pseudo-philosophy. Carlson’s new mission is obviously to fracture MAGA, but I doubt that will work despite his 17-million followers on X. He’s just become too silly to be taken seriously anymore. He sacrificed his patriotism for the idiotic occultist views of a new Rasputin and in Mother Russia there's one born every minute.

Speaking of anti-MAGA, even Bret Stephens at the New York Times - hardly a Trump fan - had to concede in his piece a couple of days earlier that this Iran campaign is going a damn sight better than the doomers predicted. Iranian missiles and drones have tailed off sharply, the economic fallout hasn’t cratered the global markets like they swore it would, and American losses have stayed mercifully low compared to the endless quagmires of the past, so far. Stephens still finds room to nit-pick the planning, but you can hear the grudging admission underneath: the results are speaking louder than the panic.

I’m just a Kiwi watching from the other side of the world, but I recognise a world-altering war when I see one. For the anti-war brigade who like to think that no war is ever just, they need to explain exactly why they’re perfectly comfortable with the status quo which happens to be a permanent state of war, i.e., a murderous Islamic Republic that has spent its entire existence exporting terrorism and threatening civilisation itself, while also terrorising its own citizens within its borders. Anti-war my ass. 

Trump has promised forever that he wouldn’t let Iran go nuclear and he’s kept his word, without dragging the United States into another ‘forever war’, just to keep European inflated egos intact. He’s exposing the whole post-1971 (Nixon) financial-entanglement game for what it is - a relic that’s long outlived its usefulness. In its place, something saner is emerging: relationships built on actual strength, real production, and putting your own nation first. Places like Pakistan, Turkey, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt, all involved in Trump’s new Board of Peace, are already shifting gears outside the old way of doing things. That tends to happen when theocratic psychopaths next door start lobbing bombs into your civilian populations and infrastructure without any provocation.

The legacy media can wail about “chaos” all they like, but the facts don’t lie. Iran’s military is in ruins, their regime leaders are either dead already or in hiding, oil prices haven’t sent the world into meltdown, and the body count on the American side is nowhere near the nightmare scenarios. Leadership with principle is in play, the kind rooted in Western values of reason, resolve and self-reliance, not endless polite agreements in corridors of power that achieve bugger all.

Trump didn’t blink.  He looked at the mess previous administrations left and decided to fix it. Whether the globalists want it or not, the sands are shifting. America is remembering how to put itself first again so the Free World can remain free, and the rest of us would do well to take note.

Civilisation thrives on strength and clarity not wishful thinking. To long for a peaceful world without violence is fitting for humans, but barbarians do not crave peace like we do. They can only be defeated with overwhelming violence.