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President Donald Trump‘s peace deal in Gaza is not simply unprecedented due to the longevity of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. If the deal even somewhat holds, it’s a categorical repudiation of a quarter-century of failed diplomatic consensus. It proves the futility of the democracy promotion of the Bush and Obama-era neoconservatives and negates the notion that the rest of the world should walk on tenterhooks to appease Iran and its proxies in order to garner a consensus in the Middle East. The Gaza deal repudiates the notion that any regional peace hinges on prioritizing a Palestinian state, and it thoroughly invalidates the discernment and judgment of the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.

Most importantly, Trump has taught the world that, yes, the United States can just go into conflicts, bomb people, places, and things that pose an imminent threat to America’s interests, and then just leave. In other words, Trump has proved that, contrary to a wave of fatalism overtaking the West, we actually can win wars by fighting.

UKRAINE HOPES TO BENEFIT FROM TRUMP’S GAZA MOMENTUM WITH ITS OWN PEACE

When is the last time the U.S. won a war?

America lost 20 years and some $2 trillion fighting in Afghanistan. The only other war authorized by Congress this century, Iraq, was only a victory if you believe that the creation of a power vacuum filled by the Islamic State group was a favorable outcome.

It’s not only that we’ve lost most of the other illegal wars of the past 25 years, but also........

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