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OPINION

Beheading the Snake at Both Ends

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Iran attacked Israel.

Not just this week, but every week since October 7. And not just in missiles, but in money, manpower, and malice. Iran bankrolled Hamas’ barbarism. They armed Hezbollah. They paid for the rockets, the tunnels, the butchery. Iran has been the shadow general behind every front in this proxy war, and the world knows it.

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Now, after years of handwringing, “strategic patience,” and pathetic appeasement by global elites and American Democrats, the Trump Doctrine has returned—and with it, consequences.

Israel, with decisive backing from President Trump, is doing what should’ve been done long ago: eliminating Iran’s nuclear capacity, and in the process, gutting the regime’s ability to wage future war. For decades, Israel has pleaded with the West to understand that a nuclear-armed Iran is not just a threat to Tel Aviv—it’s a threat to Paris, London, New York, and everywhere else freedom dares to exist.

President Trump isn’t playing the UN paper shuffle. He’s not “condemning violence on both sides.” He’s not tiptoeing around the Ayatollah’s feelings. He’s promising full-strength retaliation against any Iranian aggression toward America—and giving Israel the green light to finish what Iran started.

And the results speak for themselves.

The Trump Doctrine’s effectiveness lies in its simplicity: starve the enemy, empower the ally, and never bluff.

That’s why, under Trump, Iran doesn’t get pallets of U.S. taxpayer cash in the dead of night. That’s why there’s no “Iran Deal 2.0” trying to bribe our enemies back into compliance. That’s why Iran no longer enjoys unfettered access to the global oil market to fund terrorism through Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, or their latest Frankenstein creation.

When the money dried up, the proxies dried up.

Now, with their nuclear dreams crumbling under Israeli firepower and their bank accounts frozen by real sanctions, not Biden-era “suggestions,” the Mullahs are being squeezed at both ends. They can’t fund terror abroad. They can’t bully the region with nukes. And the fear that once made them so powerful is starting to evaporate.

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The strategy is simple and brutal: cut off the head and kill the tail.

That’s exactly what Israel and Trump are doing.

And here’s the kicker: not a single American boot is on the ground.

This isn’t the endless war playbook of Bush or Obama. This is smart power, unapologetically wielded. It’s targeted. It’s tactical. And it’s entirely in America’s interest.

Iran’s regime is suddenly vulnerable, domestically and abroad. The internal discontent that has simmered beneath the surface is now heating to a boil. Without cash to keep the population sedated and without nukes to wag at the West, the regime will soon face its most dangerous enemy yet: its own people.

That’s the ultimate nightmare for the Mullahs—not the U.S. military, not Israeli jets, but an Iranian public that’s fed up with theocratic tyranny and finally emboldened enough to act.

In less than two weeks, mark this: Iran will see unrest begin to break through the cracks. When a regime loses its fear factor and its financial lifeline, revolution isn’t far behind.

This is how real foreign policy works. This is what “peace through strength” actually looks like.

And don’t let the legacy media spin their recycled hysteria. While the usual suspects in Washington wring their hands and fret about “escalation,” the rest of the world is quietly relieved that someone is finally doing something.

Trump isn't starting wars. He’s stopping them.

By empowering allies, cutting the funding lines to terrorists, and destroying the nuclear threat before it materializes, he’s making sure America doesn’t have to fight another Iraq or Afghanistan.

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This is a generational shift in how American strength is projected: focused, fast, and final.

So while Democrats tiptoe around Tehran with furrowed brows and nervous press releases, President Trump is giving the free world something we haven’t had in a long time: leverage.

It’s about time.

We should’ve allowed Israel to cripple Iran’s nuclear program years ago. But thanks to the fecklessness of the Obama-Biden years, we delayed. We empowered Iran with deals and billions. We pretended that peace could be bought.

President Trump understands what Israel has always known: you can’t negotiate with a snake. You can only cut off its head.

That’s what’s happening right now—militarily, financially, strategically.

And for the first time in decades, Iran is running out of venom.

The world is watching as the Trump Doctrine delivers results. And Americans, exhausted from wars we didn’t win and diplomacy that didn’t work, should take note:

This is what winning looks like.

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