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  • 6/25/2025
First, the U.S. denied involvement in Israel’s strikes against Iran. Then President Donald Trump took credit for them. Trump insisted he wasn’t working toward a ceasefire and would take two weeks to consider attacking Iran. Then he bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities two days later and, two days after that, announced a ceasefire. His top officials said they were not seeking “regime change,” then he said: why not? before declaring yesterday that regime change causes “chaos” and he doesn’t want that.

Some supporters say he’s a master of misdirection. Critics liken it to “schizophrenia.”

J.D. Vance calls it the Trump Doctrine.

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00:00What I call the Trump Doctrine is quite simple.
00:02Number one, you articulate a clear American interest,
00:06and that's, in this case, that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:09Number two, you try to aggressively, diplomatically solve that problem.
00:14And number three, when you can't solve it diplomatically,
00:17you use overwhelming military power to solve it,
00:19and then you get the hell out of there before it ever becomes a protracted conflict.
00:23That is the Trump Doctrine.
00:25And to the Americans who are worried about this becoming a protracted conflict,
00:30I think the president solved that very quickly.
00:32Not only did we destroy the Iranian nuclear program,
00:35we did it with zero American casualties,
00:38and that's what happens when you've got strong American leadership.

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