America has many allies in what promises to be a decades-long Cold War 2.0 between the US and its allies and the alliance 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 brought with it a number of fourth-string powers in our hemisphere, such as Venezuela’s Maduro and Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel, who succeeded the Castro brothers (although Raúl, at 94, still struts around with some influence).
President Donald Trump is busy protecting the Western Hemisphere from 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. The country is heavily dependent on Venezuelan oil, and the tap for that has been turned off 45-47. Xi, Putin and Khamenei cannot live forever, and succession battles within tyrannies will never go smoothly for the bad guys.
So the United States, which already has the most powerful military in the world, is modernizing it—particularly the Navy—and can count on its allies around the world to keep “the evildoers in check,” as President George W. Bush once memorably and accurately put it.
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President Trump’s willingness to use lethal and overwhelming force to defend Americans was on full display in recent days when he ordered the Pentagon to sanction ISIS elements remaining in Syria who had dared to kill Americans. The president has also sidelined Venezuela’s Maduro and the narco-terrorist network he is part of.
Our allies are doing everything they can to keep Ukraine afloat against Putin’s brutality, and while President Trump has tried time and time again to bring Putin to the table, the Russian dictator has not wavered from his imperial ambitions.
China has always played the long game, thinking in centuries, not generations or decades. For Xi, President Trump offers a formidable deterrent to his ambitions for another three years.
The president has the great advantage of being very unpredictable. The ruins of Iran’s nuclear program are proof of that, and Operation Midnight Hammer, which crushed the mullahs’ underground nuclear weapons facilities, is the sure guarantee that Trump’s second term will already be a success. That one order to send in the B-2s will never be insignificant in world history, because it kept the most powerful weapons known to man out of the grasp of theocrats with an insane “end times” theology. The world has been breathing so much easier since June 22, 2025.
Our allies are many and varied and spread around the world, but make no mistake: Israel is our most important strategic ally.
That’s because Israel is a nuclear and intelligence superpower with the will and ability to project lethal forces over vast distances. It is also home, along with emerging US defense companies like Anduril and Palantir, to the free world’s crucial defense tech industries. The fact that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are such good friends is of great importance to both countries. That includes the president’s relationships with the leaders of our key Sunni allies.
For the next three years, this partnership between the US, Israel and the Gulf States is the most important for our country’s short and medium term. That’s because fanatical theocrats run Iran. A second round of blows could soon be coming to Iran as the fanatics running the country rush to rebuild and expand the regime’s ballistic missile program, which poses an existential threat to Israel, as well as to our Gulf allies and to Europe.
The US is not concerned with regime change. We are not exporting democracy to countries that balance modernity with deeply traditional cultures. But President Trump will not stand aside if Iran continues on this self-destructive course.
President Trump will not allow the US or its citizens to be threatened or killed. President Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday, as attacks on ISIS in Syria were underway – in all caps – the gist of the “Trump Doctrine”: “YOU WILL BE HIT HARDER THAN YOU HAVE EVER BEEN HIT BEFORE IF YOU, IN ANY WAY, ATTACK OR THREATEN THE US.”
That’s it. In less than 25 words, President Trump brought the entire world to attention. The key word he included in his post: “THREATEN.”
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This is deterrence. And while the US has many allies it can count on to join in retaliation for attacks on American citizens, it has one it can certainly rely on when it comes to regimes that threaten us: Israel.
This is why support for Israel is an important part of the Republican Party’s core values. There is a wave of anti-Semitism around the world and the Bondi Beach massacre in Australia, as well as the many attacks on Jews in Europe, and even in New York City this month, are both tragic and deeply alarming. In fact, there is a very small section of anti-Israel voices within the Republican Party and a much louder and larger wing of the Democratic Party that is not only anti-Israel, but hides its anti-Semitism behind slogans and chants.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune discussed with me last week one of the key differences between the Republican Party and Democrats: “But they [the Democrats] have their political left, the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, [and it] is currently emerging. It’s where the energy is and where a lot of the money is in Democratic politics. You see it happening in some of these elections around the country, and it’s really unfortunate because supporting Israel is a long-standing policy of this country. And our greatest ally in that part of the world and an ally with whom we have so much in common, going back to faith tradition, to economics and national security interests and to democracy, there are just as many reasons why our support for Israel must be unequivocal, especially at a time when they are under constant attack. And so, yes, it’s hard to explain where the Democrats are, but we will continue here, at least in the Senate on the Republican side of the aisle, continuing a very strong message of support. [for Israel] and support this with actions.”
As 2025 draws to a close, the Republican Party is united on the most important issue: national defense. That’s a Christmas gift for everyone, whether they know it or not.
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