For decades, the West was governed by men and women speaking in the exhausted language of process, restraint, de-escalation, and diplomatic frameworks. They mistook delay for pragmatism and stalemate for stability. They sold negotiations as strategy, even when those negotiations merely bought time for the worst actors on earth to grow stronger, richer, bolder, and more dangerous.
Then Donald Trump arrived and did what institutional leaders almost never do: he upended the table.
In a speech at the Congressional Institute addressing the war in Iran, President Trump boasted, “No other president could do some of the sh*t I’m doing. The things I’m doing, nobody else was gonna do.”
Crude? Perhaps. Inaccurate? Not at all.
Because beneath the bluster is something many Israelis understand with unusual clarity: he is probably right.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been warning about Iran for roughly three decades. He saw what much of the West refused to see, or maybe preferred not to see. He understood that the Iranian regime was not a difficult-but-rational stakeholder that could be folded into...
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