Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it best, before his speech for Western restoration, when he declared: “The world is changing, very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone. We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it’s going to require all of us to re-examine what that looks like, and what our role is going to be.”
This is the new American Century, one in which America no longer forces change through aggressive intervention and costly wars, but a strategic mixture of force, diplomacy, and sanctions.
The new century, with Trump currently at the helm, started with a terrorist attack: 9-11.
American prosperity at home and naiveté worldwide had distracted us. In the 1990s, Americans felt invincible. The Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union dissolved, and communism collapsed. It seemed there were no more enemies to fight. Then emerged Al-Qaeda, the four hijacked planes, and three thousand American lives lost on American soil.
To her credit, America did not cower. Sadly, she rushed in heedlessly, thinking that the post-World War II consensus and military might would defeat civilizational threats.
America’s first attempt to restore its hegemony in the Middle East failed. Force alone, without wisdom or cultural transformation, would collapse. We should fault Bush (and Obama) for maintaining military efforts with no real plan in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Their military approach impoverished our country and emboldened our enemies. How could anyone have believed that the United States could reshape the world in our image, through our means, to accept our values?
Trump understood this. If you want world peace, a strong America taking care of her own problems would have to lead the way. No more misguided ventures, but the United States would not sit back and endure trauma and terror without retaliation.
With President Trump’s ascendancy arises the New American Century. A new vision of American Greatness and national self-respect is taking off with a bang. Trump understood then—and still understands—that American force alone won’t bring the changes needed in the world.
The people in their respective countries must choose freedom for themselves. President Trump put his country first, and other nations started expecting their leaders to do the same.
The UK deserves credit for this new Weltgeist. In June 2016, six months before Trump’s first election, the voters of the British Isles said “Enough!” with the European Union, and Brexited out of that unwieldy, undemocratic continental bureaucracy. The island nation still has a long way to go, but breaking away from the EU was a necessary start.
In 2019, the Number One murder capital of the world, El Salvador, elected a Christian conservative committed to tackling crime. Running on an independent platform, breaking from the established controlled opposition political parties, Nayib Bukele uprooted the corrupt political class which enchained his beloved El Salvador. He also locked up the klepto-kakistocracy of gang and drug lords. Last year, the residents of San Salvador celebrated their first Christmas parade in decades.
In 2023, the century-long basket-case Argentina elected Libertarian president Javier Milei, who promised to undo the harm of “The Caste” and shout “Afuera!” to every corrupt, useless, burdensome aspect of the state. In three years, following a landslide set of Congressional victories, Milei has restored the economy while expanding freedom in the once long-Peronist hellhole. Milei took a chainsaw to everything. No more government handouts, dependence, or preeminence. Recently, he pushed through key legislation that breaks the power of the Argentine labor unions and forces juvenile criminals to be tried as adults. Viva La Libertad, Carajo!
At the outset of 2026, American forces unraveled the vile legacy of the narco-communist regime of Hugo Chavez with the arrest of his happy-feet successor Nicolas Maduro. President Trump and his team secured his immediate arrest with no loss of American lives, and the remaining leaders of Venezuela are feeling the pressure of the people to respond to their needs. The United States will not effect regime change. The people of Venezuela can and must.
Across Latin America, after twenty years of violent collectivism, repression, and tyranny, the various peoples have also shouted “Enough!” Communist regimes are collapsing, with pro-American, free-enterprise capitalists, conservatives, and common-sense leaders taking the helm. Who would have imagined that countries south of the United States would have voted to turn their countries around? No longer are they turning to the United States for full assistance. The answer is not the open-border United States, but a restoration of citizenship.
Trump’s America First policies led by example for other countries to choose a new direction. Trump’s refusal to turn the United States into the Battered Women’s Shelter of the world forced the citizens of Third World Countries to look inward, to take responsibility for their countries, to take charge, and make their own countries great again. They looked to America, they saw the beauty and greatness of “Make America Great Again,” and they want it for themselves. They want to be free, and they are willing to fight for it.
This driver for citizen-led freedom is breaking out in the Middle East, as well.
Before the wave of freedom, the year 2023 unleashed unprecedented horrors on the world. Taking advantage of the weakness of woke Western leaders at the time, including Sleepy Joe Biden and the morally inept talking heads in Europe, the Islamic terrorist group Hamas unleashed unspeakable atrocities on innocent Jews, Christians, and others on October 7th, 2023. They bit off more than they could chew, on purpose, hoping to drive Israel into urban combat, with the inevitable fallout of civilian casualties.
There was one problem: most of the Western world has stopped trusting corporate media, long committed to painting Israel in the worst light while playing up the purported plight of Arab countries suffering under “Zionist occupying” oppression. Trump made that happen, and the rest of the world failed to catch up. Hamas lost the ground and PR war, and Trump recently brokered a cease-fire.
Even right after Trump won re-election, eye doctor turned dictator Bashar al-Assad was blindsided. His grip on Syria slipped as upstart rebels rose, targeted Damascus, and forced the brutal Shiite dictator from power. Russia couldn’t help, and Iran was helpless, bogged down by long-term failures in Lebanon and Gaza.
And now it’s Iran’s turn to topple. President Trump targeted the Ayatollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s nuclear capabilities last year, then finished the job by taking out the Ayatollah and his entourage. These maniacal Islamic militants targeted Americans for years. They wanted to blow us off the face of the earth—along with Israel—and now they can’t.
Trump has aided the people of Iran in taking back their country, but it is their country to take back, not ours. Regime change is the cause of the people, not the President of the United States. Do they want to be free? They must rise and seize the opportunity. Gone are the days when the United States barges in and does the work.
We have ourselves to take care of now. Trump pursues America’s interests, and when we succeed, other countries can follow suit. This is the way, and the New American Century.
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