Former Secretaries of State—particularly the ones from Team Obama-Biden—have this truly special skill. A skill so refined, so surgical, that it leaves observers in awe. It’s the uncanny ability to be completely, irreversibly wrong about nearly everything… while sounding painfully self-assured in the process.
Enter Antony Blinken.
The poor guy is practically sputtering. One minute, he’s scolding President Trump for having the sheer audacity to obliterate Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure. The next, he’s openly hoping it “inflicted maximum damage.”
Buddy… it did.
Maxar satellite imagery confirms what most of the globe already suspected. Where Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities once stood—Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan, and deep-penetration underground sites—there are now giant, smoking craters. Gone. Erased. Vaporized.
Poof. No more centrifuges. No more bomb-making material. No more threats of mushroom clouds rising over Tel Aviv, Riyadh, or, frankly, New York.
And yet Blinken—this walking, talking contradiction—has the gall to simultaneously condemn the strike, and whisper a backhanded prayer that it worked. Because, deep down, even he knows what everyone else with half a functional brain knows: Trump’s decision wasn’t just correct—it was essential.
As President Trump arrives at the NATO Summit today, there’s a not-so-quiet buzz among the delegates. In fact, it’s not even subtle. World leaders—some of whom spent years sneering at him—are texting him congratulations.
Not the usual political fluff. Not “thank you for your leadership” boilerplate nonsense. No—they’re calling his actions “extraordinary.”
Not just because the strikes eliminated Iran’s nuclear capability.
Not just because the Ayatollah’s regime woke up (what was left of it) to a world where their leverage had been turned to dust.
But because—within hours—peace emerged between Israel and Iran. Yes, you read that right. Peace.
No pallets of cash were required. No drawn-out backroom bribes. No concessions that sell out America’s allies. Just raw, undeniable strength. The kind the world hasn’t seen since Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down a wall—and meant it.
As if torching Iran’s nuclear ambitions wasn’t enough for one news cycle, President Trump also managed to pull off something that every president before him had whined about but failed to do.
NATO allies—who have historically dragged their feet to pony up the 2 percent of GDP minimum defense spending—are now moving to 5 percent.
Five. Percent.
Let that sink in.
The same European leaders who once wagged fingers, rolled eyes, and lectured about “American overreach” are now opening their wallets wider than ever before.
Why? Because strength commands respect. Because reality smacks harder than virtue signals. Because when America leads with certainty and unapologetic resolve, the free world follows—and our enemies retreat.
Contrast that with Antony Blinken—the human shrug emoji.
Here’s a man who spent his entire tenure wringing his hands over “escalation,” “provocation,” and “diplomatic norms”—all while Iran enriched uranium to 84 percent, funded terror proxies across the globe, and plotted the deaths of Americans and Israelis alike.
When faced with evil, Blinken hosted symposiums. When confronted by aggression, he scheduled Zoom calls. When enemies needed to be deterred, he drafted statements “expressing concern.”
And the results were exactly what you’d expect. The Middle East in flames. Europe in chaos. American influence slipping like sand through fingers.
Trump’s doctrine is simple: You don’t negotiate with terrorists. You destroy their leverage, then offer them a handshake.
Blinken’s doctrine is equally simple: Offer terrorists a handshake, hope they don’t punch you in the face, and when they do… apologize for being in the way.
One leads to a safer world. The other leads to more body bags.
What’s truly offensive isn’t just the double-speak from Blinken and his ilk. It’s the gaslighting of the American public.
These are the same people who swore that peace couldn’t be achieved without billions in bribes and years of groveling diplomacy. The same people who told you that confronting Iran would ignite World War III. The same people who whispered that Trump was a dangerous warmonger while simultaneously sending 2,000-pound bombs to Ukrainian battlefields without congressional approval.
And yet here we are.
Iran’s nuclear ambitions are now rubble.
Israel isn’t firing missiles—they’re shaking hands.
NATO’s military budget just grew by 150 percent.
And the only missiles being launched today are text messages from European heads of state telling Donald J. Trump: “Thank you for restoring peace.”
So let’s just put it plainly: If Donald Trump is what peace through strength looks like, then Antony Blinken is what weakness through confusion looks like.
One man reshaped the world order by making the hard decision no one else dared to.
The other man wrote a memo about it.
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