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

America has many allies in what promises to be a decades-long Cold War 2.0 between the U.S.and its allies and the alliance of tyrants, led by the People’s Republic of China’sXi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.This quartet of dictators has some fourth-string powers allied with it in our hemisphere, like Venezuela’s Maduro and Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel, who succeeded the Castro brothers (though Raul is still doddering around at 94 with some influence.)

President Donald Trump is in the process of securing the Western Hemisphere against this alliance by placing a quarantine on Maduro’s oil and drug exports from Venezuela.Cuba can only export sugar and secret police and is already in an advanced state of economic collapse.It is heavily dependent on Venezuelan oil, and the spigot for that has been turned off by 45-47.Xi, Putin and Khamenei can’t live forever, and succession battles within tyrannies are never guaranteed to run smoothly for the bad guys. 

So the United States, already in possession of the most powerful military in the world, is modernizing it —especially its Navy— and can count on its allies around the world to contain “the evil-doers,” as President George W.Bush once memorably and accurately put it. 

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President Trump’s willingness to use deadly and overwhelming force in defense of Americans was on display over the past few days as he ordered the Pentagon to pummel elements of ISIS remaining in Syria that had dared kill Americans.The president has also put the screws on Venezuela’s Maduro and the network of narco-terrorists of which he is a part. 

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Our allies are very much in the effort to keep Ukraine standing against the savagery of Putin, and while 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 always playedthe long game, thinking in centuries, not generations or decades.To Xi, President Trump presents a formidable deterrent to his ambitions for three more years. 

The president has the great asset of being very unpredictable.The ruins of Iran’s nuclear program are a testament to that, and Operation Midnight Hammer, which crushed the mullahs’ underground nuclear weapons facilities, is the certain guarantee that the second Trump term is already a success.That single order to send the B-2s will never not be significant in world history because it kept the most powerful weaponry known to mankind out of the grips of theocrats with a crazed “end-times” theology.The world has breathed so much easier since June 22, 2025. 

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Our allies are many and varied and spread across the globe, but make no mistake: Israel is our most important strategic ally. 

That is because Israel is a nuclear and intelligence superpower with the will and ability to project deadly force over vast distances.It is also home to, along with emerging American defense companies like Anduril and Palantir, the crucial defense-tech industries of the free world.That President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are such close friends is of great importance to both countries.So are the president’s relationships with the leaders of our major Sunni allies. 

For the next three years, this partnership between the U.S., Israel and the Gulf States is the most important one for our country’s near and medium term.That’s because fanatical theocrats run Iran.A second round of blows may be headedsoon towards Iran, because the fanatics who lead it are rushing to rebuild and expand the regime’s ballistic missile program, which poses an existential threat to Israel as well as our Gulf allies and Europe. 

The U.S.is not in the regime change business.We are not exporting democracy to lands that are balancing modernity with deeply traditional cultures.But, neither will President Trump stand aside if Iran continues on this self-destructive course. 

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President Trump will not allow the U.S.or its citizens to be threatened or killed.President Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday as strikes on ISIS in Syria were underway — in all caps — the core “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.”

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That’s it.In less than 25 words, President Trump put the whole globe on notice.The key word he included in his post: “THREATEN.”

This is deterrence.And while the U.S.has many allies it can count on to join in retaliation for attacks on U.S.citizens, it has one that it can, for sure, rely upon when it comes to regimes that threaten us: Israel. 

This is why support for Israel is a key part of the GOP’s core values.There is a surge of antisemitism around the world and the massacre at Bondi Beach in Australia, as well as the many attacks on Jews in Europe, and indeed in New York City this month, are both tragic and also deeply alarming.There is even a very small slice of anti-Israel voices within the GOP and a much louder and larger wing of the Democratic Party that is not just anti-Israel but hides its antisemitism behind slogans and chants.