A Victory for Trump, the USA, and the New World Order

Beyond crushing Iran’s aggression and exposing NATO's obsolescence, the war has clarified which nations will define the future.

On Fox Business “Mornings with Maria” discussing the Iran war. Video: https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6392638897112

Iran has blinked. How hard and for how long, we do not know. But a blink is a blink.

Sifting through the mainstream media’s emissions over the past day has been almost as fun as an election night after a Trump victory. The tears of progressives and those rooting against the USA are the sweetest of all.

The usual suspects were caught in one of two modes. Some were trying desperately to claim that an obvious victory was something other than it was. Others, like Helen Keller during her first trip to the water pump with the Miracle Worker, were flailing in an attempt to grasp something near the limit of their ability to comprehend.

With the usual caveats that Iran’s theocratic tyrants excel at lying and breaking agreements, that Iran has already said and done things inconsistent with what it agreed, and that a ceasefire is a de facto peace instead of a de jure one, the past six weeks can only be seen fairly as a victory. Normal people will see it as such.

While the mainstream media and their Democrat handmaidens sneered and called it “Trump’s war,” it was in fact a war fought by the United States, Israel, and Gulf Arabs plus Jordan against the chief global purveyor of terrorism and Islamist tyranny.

It wasn’t just a big victory for Trump. It was a big victory for the United States of America.

On March 30, Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out the war’s objectives:

This is about very specific objectives. The President laid them out on the first night of the operation… Here they are — you should write them down. Number one, the destruction of their air force. Number two, the destruction of their navy. Number three, the severe diminishing of their missile launching capability. And number four, the destruction of their factories so they can’t make more missiles and more drones to threaten us in the future. All of this so that they can never hide behind it to acquire a nuclear weapon.

As it became clear the U.S.-led coalition was accomplishing each of these goals, the media sought to move the goalposts. “Trump’s war” would be a failure unless oil and gas resumed their unhindered flow through the Strait of Hormuz, even though the United States gets little of its oil and gas through that waterway. Journalist-advocates who never before cared about middle America took a break from running stories about climate justice and women trapped in men’s bodies to report on the supposedly crushing cost of energy.

True, gasoline prices rose from just over $3 per gallon when the war started to $4.16 yesterday. Lost amid the reporting was that gasoline was much higher during the middle of dotard Joe Biden’s administration, reaching $5.02 in mid-2022, which would be $5.53 in today’s dollars. Biden and his fellow “mentally retarded person,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, achieved this despite no supply disruption, largely by debasing the dollar, in which oil is traded globally, in order to pay people not to work long after the pandemic’s critical phase.

But then Trump also got a deal to reopen the Strait—backed, of course, by the application and continued threat of overwhelming U.S. military force. By Wednesday morning, the price of oil had plummeted 15 percent.

The mainstream media simply cannot handle this. Take the New York Times, which has rooted for every American enemy since the Vietcong. After the ceasefire, Pravda on the Hudson published an “analysis” piece lamenting Trump’s brinkmanship and willingness to communicate directly with the American people instead of through the lying media: “a warning of mass destruction and what international law would define as war crimes, blithely delivered on Truth Social, posted alongside ads for bullet-shaped pens, patriotic hats and a gala dinner at Mar-a-Lago.”

Boo-hoo. I heard Trump also jaywalked once.

Furthermore, according to the Times’s pretend psychologist, Trump’s “…latest comments bear the mark of an impulsive leader who is used to getting his way through coercion and unpredictability, but who is not getting his way now.”

Except he is.

The piece was written by Katie Rogers, who, according to her bio, wrote “American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden.” Quite the page-turner, I’m sure. She has a graduate degree in journalism (i.e., a fake degree) from Northwestern University. How perfect to represent the America-haters. They have expensive degrees, sterling credentials, and have worked for companies with what used to be marquee brands. And yet they seemingly have shit for brains and lack the self-awareness to conceal this trait.

And then there are the elected Democrats. The record will show that every Democrat senator except Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman opposed Trump, with some even seeking Trump’s removal from office for confronting a threat that even many Democrats used to recognize as critical. After all, not only did Trump oppose then-president Barack Obama’s 2015 flawed nuclear deal with Iran, so too did current top Democrat Chuck Schumer, who runs the Senate despite a Republican majority. Never have the Democrats been less qualified to hold executive or legislative power. Go put some more tampons in boys’ rooms to please your political base and let the adults govern.

Turning back to the real world, there is the matter that Iran typically violates at least part of every international agreement it enters. But there is some history of the regime complying more or less: a ceasefire ended the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and largely stuck, although compliance with down-list obligations of the agreement was mixed.

Whether in two weeks, two months, or two years, it is likely that the United States and its allies will have to “mow the lawn” on occasion in Iran. Doing so would not be a failure, but a matter of course in dealing with a country that has been a problem on and off for the West since the First Persian Invasion of Greece in 492 BC (“BCE” for those of you in Rio Linda).

“Watch This Victory,” March 2, 2026, by Christian Whiton
”Trump Knows There’s No Substitute For Victory,” March 6, 2026, by Christian Whiton

Luckily, the allies will be contending with an Iran whose military capabilities and progress toward a nuclear capability have been severely diminished. And while not the most probable outcome, perhaps Iran’s new leaders will come to realize that the nations that matter don’t buy the lie that Iran needs uranium-enrichment capabilities for its sole electricity-generating reactor (the fuel for which Russia has agreed to supply and remove once used) or medical purposes. Accepting the end of its nuclear weapons project, ballistic missile program, and export of terrorism would lead to an end of sanctions on Iran and the benefits of greatly expanded oil production and export.

Short of that, strong allied conventional military power will be indispensable. The United States should also field “salted” nuclear weapons once considered during the Cold War. These very-low-yield weapons, fired at or just below ground level, entrain and contaminate or irradiate significant amounts of earth and onboard cobalt to create contained, localized conditions that are radiologically dangerous enough to discourage human access for a number of years—a harder task than one might imagine. Tehran must understand that it will cease activity at its nuclear sites one way or another, and that previously enriched uranium will remain entombed. It and other rogue regimes should also understand that the nuclear club is closed to new entrants—even if low-yield nuclear weapons are ironically necessary to enforce this rule.

The success of enforcement and deterrence will rely on the continued determined political leadership in the United States, Israel, and among the Gulfies. Which is to say the countries that matter most to the emerging new world order. Here we see that war accelerates and clarifies trends that have been a long time in the making.

NATO is useless for the United States, and has been for some time. Actually, it would have to improve to be useless; it is a costly distraction and collection of pointless moochers. Its pathetic and disingenuous offer to help in the Strait of Hormuz only after hostilities end is absurd. What will they do then? Repaint buoys? Host tea on dated ships that barely function?

This sad reality is obvious not only to Trump, who has correctly called NATO a “paper tiger,” but also to those who previously held the alliance in high esteem, such as Rubio.

Trump can and should quit NATO. Not only was it unhelpful in confronting Iran, its members sought actively to undermine the United States and deny America use of its military bases. In 2023, Congress slipped a provision into the annual defense authorization act that purports to require the president to get a two-thirds vote in the Senate or an act of Congress through both houses to withdraw from NATO. This is constitutionally ridiculous: the Framers of the Constitution established a two-thirds Senate supermajority to enter into treaties, but no such requirement exists for withdrawal.

Per the Constitution, the hurdle to get into an international agreement is high, but not to get out. Presidents have often exercised this power to exit treaties, including President George W. Bush’s withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 when it clearly no longer served U.S. interests. That move made possible many of the anti-missile systems that have defended U.S. troops and allies during this war.

Trump should withdraw from NATO just to prove he can, citing his constitutional authority as commander in chief. Congress has no mechanism to enforce its pretension: to have standing before a court, it would likely take both houses voting in favor of litigation. Furthermore, the Supreme Court frequently declines to arbitrate disputes between the executive and legislative branches, especially in areas like national defense where the president’s powers are greatest.

Short of that, Trump can “quiet quit” NATO. Start cancelling new deployments when units rotate home. Move advanced weapons elsewhere, especially missile-defense systems and nuclear weapons. Trim military and diplomatic missions. Declare that particularly hostile governments, such as those of Spain, France, and Denmark, are no longer part of the U.S. defense picture. End U.S. involvement in the globalist enterprise that is Ukraine, whose adherents tried to impeach and assassinate Trump, and drop sanctions on Russia to reduce the price of oil and gas.

In venting his frustration with NATO, Trump also faulted allies Australia, South Korea, and Japan for not getting involved. Australia deserves ridicule: it is run by woke Karens who just arrested their greatest living war hero for make-believe offenses allegedly committed decades ago. South Korea is a one-way alliance.

The criticism of Japan is less fair: the country has a constitution written by American postwar occupation officials that allows only for self-defense. In recent years, it has expanded the definition of self-defense as it has doubled its defense spending. Its new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is pushing for more reform and more defense spending. However, a military expedition around the world would be pushing it. Perhaps Japan can eventually help with areas like logistics, surveillance, freedom of navigation, and search and rescue closer to the Gulf. But a more critical role for America is if Japan helps to hold down the Northwestern Pacific against China when the USA has to mow the lawn in the Middle East—something Japan is doing more and more. The reality is, if the United States must fight China, only Japan and the Philippines will fight for real on our side.

Where does this leave the new world order? American military and economic power are paramount. The United States is the most attractive place to invest. The AI revolution, with America and its real allies at the forefront, will expand human potential to a degree people are only just beginning to imagine. The only cloud on the horizon—and it is not a small one—is the U.S. government’s unsustainable spending and national debt. But even that can be resolved with government reform and rapid economic growth.

An arc of prosperity and power is emerging that runs from the United States through Northeast Asia to the Arabian Gulf. Europe is for vacations and second-rate wine (or worse in the case of Spanish wine, which tastes like potpourri fermented in cat urine). South America may come along too: so far Argentina is the first heavyweight in the region to jump on the capitalist train, but there is hope that Mexico and Venezuela, and maybe even Brazil and Colombia, might eventually follow the path of smaller countries in the Americas that have chosen capitalism. Maybe, maybe not.

The Arabian Gulf, already a growing center of capital, culture, and technology, will become an even greater asset with the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran diminished. Among America’s Gulf allies, the United Arab Emirates is a standout for supporting the United States and opposing Iran during the war more publicly and aggressively than any Middle Eastern country other than Israel.

Finally, there is the intangible but indispensable. I wrote above about economic and military strength, which can be measured. Cultural strength is harder to quantify. Iran’s leaders understandably doubted the will of the United States and its allies to fight. After all, America’s media and half of Congress were rooting for America to fail. In the last election, Kama-lama-ding-don and Tampon Tim Walz got 48% of the popular vote. Every part of the Anglosphere aside from the United States has thrown in the towel on Western Civilization and should probably not wait until the last minute to start memorizing the Koran.

But the Iranians were wrong about Americans and American culture. What better proof of this than the quality and determination of the American fighting man and woman who have served faithfully in this war, and in every war since the nation was founded 250 years ago. They are not conflicted about America. They know America is great. They know America is worth defending. They know America will prevail.

And they are not squeamish, as our political class seems very much to be, about references to God and beseeching His support in the struggle for civilization. They are symbols of the health of our society and what the silent majority of Americans believe. And neither they nor their families would cringe to hear the message General Douglas MacArthur broadcast home after the surrender ceremony that finally ended World War II when he declared, “The holy mission has been completed.” He added:

… I thank a merciful God that he has given us the faith, the courage, and the power from which to mold victory. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Later, in words that could easily apply to the struggle against Iran’s theocracy, MacArthur concluded:

And so, my fellow countrymen, today I report to you that your sons and daughters have served you well and faithfully with the calm, deliberate, determined fighting spirit of the American soldier and sailor, based upon a tradition of historical truth as against the fanaticism of an enemy supported only by mythological fiction.

Their spiritual strength and power have brought us through to victory.

They are homeward bound.

Take care of them.

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