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President Trump isn’t one to mince words, and when he says something is working, you can bet he’s seeing results the rest of us haven’t caught onto yet. That was the message Tuesday when the President declared “tremendous success” in the ongoing standoff with Iran in a White House statement, sending markets soaring and leaving the foreign policy establishment scrambling to catch up. According to data from Bloomberg, the Nikkei jumped over 3% on the news, a clear signal that global investors believe Trump when he talks about peace.
This isn’t the reaction you see when a conflict is escalating—it’s the reaction you see when smart money smells a deal in the making. The President has been clear from the start: he doesn’t want war with Iran, he wants a better deal than the disastrous Obama-era agreement that shipped pallets of cash to Tehran while they chanted “death to America,” as documented in reports from the U.S. Department of Treasury. And Trump’s approach completely upends the neocon playbook, proving there’s a third way beyond endless sanctions or military intervention.
For decades, the foreign policy blob has insisted that the only way to deal with rogue regimes is through either endless sanctions that hurt civilians or military intervention that costs American lives. But the Iranians are feeling the heat from Israeli strikes on their nuclear facilities, as reported by The Times of Israel, American military positioning in the region, and the economic squeeze of sanctions enforced by the U.S. government. When Trump says he’s talking to the “right people,” you can be sure those conversations are happening from a position of American strength, not the weakness and appeasement that defined the previous administration.
Is this the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for? It’s too early to say for certain, but the market’s reaction suggests something real is happening behind the scenes. What we do know is that Trump has once again demonstrated that his unconventional approach to foreign policy—derided by the experts, mocked by the media—can achieve results that decades of conventional diplomacy failed to deliver, based on analyses from conservative outlets like Fox News. Providence watches over the bold.
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