Why Trump’s Bombing of Iran Shows One the Biggest Myths about His Presidency is Wrong
The left likes narratives, not facts. Whether many of these delusional radicals are talking about the lie that women make less money than men in society, or that institutional racism exists in a country where almost every Ivy League college has a lower standard for underrepresented minorities and most cities that have the largest black populations are run by black leaders, the Democrats do not like to deal in reality. This fact couldn’t more truer than when the conversation turns to the 47th President. Trump has faced an endless barrage of lies from the Democrats and their left-wing allies in the media for nearly a decade now.
One of the biggest myths of the Trump presidency was that he would destroy NATO or undermine our relationships with our allies. Trump has now been in power for nearly 5 years, and this absurd notion has been proven false many times. When the President recently imposed reciprocal tariffs on many nations and the EU, but he specifically targeted China, President Xi reached out to Australia and other countries to form an alliance against Trump, but his effort failed. More recently, when Trump bombed Iran, Europe did not oppose or speak up against the President’s necessary and decisive actions. Today the head of NATO even came out to publicly state that the President’s actions do not violate international law, a comment signaling that the military alliance is supportive of the US military operation.
President Trump has correctly sought to reshape America’s alliances with NATO and other countries so that the US is not getting used when America has all the leverage, but the longstanding relationships between the United States and Europe clearly remain very strong. Trump understood that NATO and the EU primarily serve Europe’s interest, not America’s, the US should not be paying to defend European countries while the United States has an over 200 billion dollar trade deficit with the EU. Many European nations also impose strict tariffs on US goods and services despite being able to export freely into our market. Trump is making sure our security and trade agreements are more reasonable, and the reality is that this rebalancing is good for the long-term relationship of America with Europe as well, because the US will no longer resent what clearly were unfair trade practices.
There have been many US Presidents who were not very popular in Europe, and the idea that Trump is the first US leader some European elites dislike shows historical ignorance as well. Reagan and Bush were both very unpopular in most of Europe, and yet the alliance between American and European nations remained strong overall. Many Presidents who have been more liked by European leaders, such as Jimmy Carter and Obama, have also been some of the worst US leaders in history. Most of Europe knows the President also solved a major problem with Iran the EU has struggled with for years as well.
The reality is that Trump is tough but fair, and America’s allies in Europe and around the world know that. The President is not seeking to end NATO or destroy long-standing alliances. On the contrary, Trump’s actions restoring better balance between the nations should create a more healthy and productive long-term relationship with the US’s partners around the world. There have been many outright lies about the 47th President that the left and their allies in the media have told for more than a decade now, but the support of NATO for what was still a unilateral military mission in Iran shows these claims that Trump would undermine our alliances is yet another reminder of an absurd and pathetic argument being proven false.
