Critics wrongly predicted President Trump would “announce his intention to withdraw the United States from the Atlantic Alliance” or at least “lash out at NATO” in his Wednesday night speech, smiles National Review’s Noah Rothman, “but the outrage in this administration toward America’s European allies is real.” “America’s allies may be used to the president’s casual hostility toward NATO,” yet his skepticism “is now being echoed even by the Atlanticists in his administration.” It goes beyond European “pique”: “Trump’s grievance is not with NATO per se but some of its constituent members,” especially the ones in “old Europe” who have denied overflight rights. And the war should also “mostly end Iranian subsidies to its Arab terrorist proxies, while eliminating Iran’s air defenses, air force, navy, and ballistic missiles and drones.” The president’s endgame challenges “are as much political as military.” Since Democrats offer “no positive counter-agenda,” they push “the perception of American defeat, in the hope they “win a new Democratic Congress.” Trump critics claim “the bombing only made popular protests more difficult” and that ending it without regime change “would prove the war effort was all in vain.” Nonsense: “Humiliating the ayatollahs” and “defanging its military-industrial complex” should “increase popular dissent” and hasten the regime’s fall. In 2017, the DSA national convention “voted to prioritize elections going forward.” Zohran Mamdani is now NYC mayor, and “DSA candidates hold approximately 250 local political positions across the 50 states.” “In New York City, ten DSA-endorsed candidates are running for Congress, the state assembly, or the state senate in upcoming elections” — all of them “determined to entrench DSA policies on immigration, housing, health care, and other issues in New York politics.” “The Soros-funded” effort proved “how vital local elections are”; the rest of us “ignore it at our peril.”
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2026-04-03 22:35:58
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