MORNING GLORY: The president ends 2025 with a clear declaration of the Trump doctrine

America has galore allies successful what promises to beryllium a decades-long Cold War 2.0 betwixt the U.S. and its allies and the confederation of tyrants, led by the People’s Republic of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. This quartet of dictators has immoderate fourth-string powers allied with it successful our hemisphere, similar Venezuela’s Maduro and Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel, who succeeded the Castro brothers (though Raul is inactive doddering astir astatine 94 with immoderate influence.)

President Donald Trump is successful the process of securing the Western Hemisphere against this confederation by placing a quarantine connected Maduro’s lipid and cause exports from Venezuela. Cuba tin lone export sweetener and concealed constabulary and is already successful an precocious authorities of economical collapse. It is heavy babelike connected Venezuelan oil, and the spigot for that has been turned disconnected by 45-47. Xi, Putin and Khamenei can’t unrecorded forever, and succession battles wrong tyrannies are ne'er guaranteed to tally smoothly for the atrocious guys. 

So the United States, already successful possession of the astir almighty subject successful the world, is modernizing it  — particularly its navy — and tin number connected its allies astir the satellite to incorporate "the evil-doers," arsenic President George W. Bush erstwhile memorably and accurately enactment it. 

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President Trump’s willingness to usage deadly and overwhelming unit successful defence of Americans was connected show implicit the past fewer days arsenic helium ordered the Pentagon to pummel elements of ISIS remaining successful Syria that had dared termination Americans. The president has besides enactment the screws connected Venezuela’s Maduro and the web of narco-terrorists of which helium is simply a part. 

Our allies are precise overmuch successful the effort to support Ukraine lasting against the savagery of Putin, and portion President Trump has tried again and again to bring Putin to the table, the Russian dictator isn’t budging from his imperial ambitions. 

China has ever played the agelong game, reasoning successful centuries, not generations oregon decades. To Xi, President Trump presents a formidable deterrent to his ambitions for 3 much years. 

The president has the large plus of being precise unpredictable. The ruins of Iran’s atomic programme are a testament to that, and Operation Midnight Hammer, which crushed the mullahs' underground atomic weapons facilities, is the definite warrant that the 2nd Trump word is already a success. That azygous bid to nonstop the B-2s volition ne'er not beryllium important successful satellite past due to the fact that it kept the astir almighty weaponry known to mankind retired of the grips of theocrats with a crazed "end-times" theology. The satellite has breathed truthful overmuch easier since June 22, 2025. 

Our allies are galore and varied and dispersed crossed the globe, but marque nary mistake: Israel is our astir important strategical ally. 

That is due to the fact that Israel is simply a atomic and quality superpower with the volition and quality to task deadly unit implicit immense distances. It is besides location to, on with emerging American defence companies similar Anduril and Palantir, the important defense-tech industries of the escaped world. That President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are specified adjacent friends is of large value to some countries. So are the president’s relationships with the leaders of our large Sunni allies. 

For the adjacent 3 years, this concern betwixt the U.S., Israel and the Gulf States is the astir important 1 for our country’s adjacent and mean term. That’s due to the fact that fanatical theocrats tally Iran. A 2nd circular of blows whitethorn beryllium headed soon towards Iran, due to the fact that the fanatics who pb it are rushing to rebuild and grow the regime’s ballistic rocket program, which poses an existential menace to Israel arsenic good arsenic our Gulf allies and Europe. 

The U.S. is not successful the authorities alteration business. We are not exporting ideology to lands that are balancing modernity with profoundly accepted cultures. But, neither volition President Trump basal speech if Iran continues connected this self-destructive course. 

President Trump volition not let the U.S. oregon its citizens to beryllium threatened oregon killed. President Trump posted connected Truth Social connected Friday arsenic strikes connected ISIS successful Syria were underway — successful each caps — the halfway "Trump Doctrine": "YOU WILL BE HIT HARDER THAN YOU HAVE EVER BEEN HIT BEFORE IF YOU, IN ANY WAY, ATTACK OR THREATEN THE U.S.A."

That’s it. In little than 25 words, President Trump enactment the full globe connected notice. The cardinal connection helium included successful his post: "THREATEN."

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This is deterrence. And portion the U.S. has galore allies it tin number connected to articulation successful retaliation for attacks connected U.S. citizens, it has 1 that it can, for sure, trust upon erstwhile it comes to regimes that endanger us: Israel. 

This is wherefore enactment for Israel is simply a cardinal portion of the GOP’s halfway values. There is simply a surge of antisemitism astir the satellite and the massacre astatine Bondi Beach successful Australia, arsenic good arsenic the galore attacks connected Jews successful Europe, and so successful New York City this month, are some tragic and besides profoundly alarming. There is adjacent a precise tiny portion of anti-Israel voices wrong the GOP and a overmuch louder and larger helping of the Democratic Party that is not conscionable anti-Israel but hides its antisemitism down slogans and chants.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune discussed with maine 1 of the cardinal differences betwixt the GOP and the Democrats past week: "But they [the Democrats] person their governmental left, the pro-Hamas helping of the Democrat Party, [and it] is ascendant close now. It’s wherever the vigor is and a batch of the wealth is successful Democrat politics. You spot it playing retired successful immoderate of these elections astir the country, and that’s truly unfortunate, due to the fact that enactment for Israel is simply a time-honored argumentation of this country. And our top state successful that portion of the satellite and an state with whom we person truthful overmuch successful communal going backmost to religion tradition, to the system and nationalist information interests and to democracy, determination are conscionable truthful galore reasons wherefore our enactment for Israel needs to beryllium unequivocal, particularly astatine a clip erstwhile they are perpetually nether attack. And so, yeah, it’s hard to explicate wherever the Dems are, but we volition proceed here, astatine slightest successful the Senate connected the Republican broadside of the aisle, with continuing a precise beardown connection of enactment [for Israel] and backing it up with actions." 

As 2025 comes to a close, the GOP is agreed connected the astir important of issues: nationalist defense. That’s a Christmas contiguous for everyone, whether they cognize it oregon not. 

Hugh Hewitt is big of "The Hugh Hewitt Show," heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET connected the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast connected Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America connected implicit 400 affiliates nationwide, and connected each the streaming platforms wherever SNC tin beryllium seen. He is simply a predominant impermanent connected the Fox News Channel’s quality roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays astatine 6pm ET. A lad of Ohio and a postgraduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law astatine Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 wherever helium teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous vigor amusement from Los Angeles successful 1990.  Hewitt has often appeared connected each large nationalist quality tv network, hosted tv shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for each large American paper, has authored a twelve books and moderated a people of Republican campaigner debates, astir precocious the November 2023 Republican statesmanlike statement successful Miami and 4 Republican statesmanlike debates successful the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his vigor amusement and his file connected the Constitution, nationalist security, American authorities and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump implicit his 40 years successful broadcast, and this file previews the pb communicative that volition thrust his radio/ TV amusement today.

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