REBECCA GRANT: Trump’s 8 biggest national security wins of 2025
National security and military analyst Rebecca Grant discusses President Trump's warnings to Iran regarding its nuclear program, the next phase of the Gaza peace plan and the U.S. strike on a Venezuelan drug loading dock.
President Donald J. Trump is wielding America’s precision military power and economic might around the globe like no other president before him. Here are eight wins that have led to the 100% restoration of American leadership.
Seven B-2 bombers dropped specially designed precision munitions down the airshafts of Iran’s nuclear weapons fabrication sites. Iran’s threshold nuclear weapons capability was obliterated. Yes, Israeli attacks had pounded Iran air defense sites, but it took over 100 U.S. warplanes and a massive bridge of air-refueling tankers to carry out the strike on Jun. 22. Trump said consistently Iran would never have a nuclear weapon. "I don’t know if they took him seriously until the night the B-2 bombers went to Fordow," U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said later. The world is safer and this will be the standout military decision of Trump’s presidency.
Only Trump could have pulled this off. On Oct. 8, Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire and that Hamas would return hostages. Trump then assembled most of the major world leaders in Egypt to get behind the deal. The Gaza deal vindicated Trump’s tactic of relentless negotiation, personalized and elevated by the leadership of special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Much work remains, but the Abraham Accords process is back on track.........





















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