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Well, the last 72 hours, literally the last week, has been a major win for the Trump administration.

Why?

Because as I have been stating, ever since Soleimani was killed, the Trump administration has

reestablished a long forgotten doctrine known as deterrence. And it's amazing to watch people in the media, all of the talking heads, all of the wonks tell you that deterrence is something that doesn't exist, could never have existed with Iran. All of that predicated on their worship for Barack Obama, who was a magical, magical man. In their view, the way this worked is that President Barack Obama had done something

magical. He had basically converted Iran into Sweden. All he had to do was sign a few checks to the

Mullas, and then they would abandon their nuclear program, not just for the 10 years specified by

contract, but for all time. And as for the terrorism and the ballistic missile testing and the

development of terrorist groups all around the region and the interference in Iraq and Lebanon and Syria and Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

All of that, well, we just ignored that because Barack Obama had done something magical.

And Barack Obama's narrative had always been they either sign a check to the Mullahs or alternatively that you go to war with them.

Those were the only two alternatives.

There was no third alternative. And then Donald Trump came along and he said, you know what, there's this thing that we used to do here. It's called deterrence. Deterence. And this works right for Trump. Trump doesn't have to understand the totality of deterrence theory because the theory is really quite simple. And Trump gets it because he gets it in most areas of his own life, which is you threaten somebody with something worse than they are threatening you with, right? They threaten you that they are going to bring a knife, you threaten to bring a gun. It's the Chicago way. Trump at least gets that much. And so when it came to Soleimani, basically the Iranians kept upping the ante, upping the ante, and Trump kept ignoring it because he did not want a conflict in the Middle East. He's the only president of my lifetime who has not been in an overt shooting war in the Middle East. And the president of the United States finally had had enough and he said, okay, you tried to burn our embassy. We're going to take out your big bad terrorist, Soleimani, Qasem Soleimani. And the media said, oh, well, war is now inevitable. Now we're going to have World War III. And Trump was like, well, not really, not so much. This is called deterrence. The Iranians are now on notice that there are such things as lines. And if you cross those lines, there will be consequences. And this gave the lie to the media's coverage of Barack Obama. Obama was exposed, but he'd been

exposed already. I mean, the Iranians were getting more and more militant, even in the aftermath of

the nuclear deal. The nuclear deal was signed in 2013. The nominee for US Sentcom by the Obama

administration said in March 2016 that the Iranians had actually become more aggressive in the wake

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