U.S. President Donald Trump just announced that the U.S. has bombed three nuclear bomb facilities in Iran.

Some thoughts on Trump's surgical strike on three Iranian nuclear sites:

1. Trump has called for the removal of Iranian nukes for more than a decade — long before he even ran for office. He’s done it at least 100 times.

2. His explanation is as simple as it is obvious: Iran is… https://t.co/mNQXvGjNXD

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) June 22, 2025

Here are a dozen reasons why this is a great day for the United States, for peace, and for the “America First” movement.

1. Trump has called for the removal of Iranian nukes for more than a decade — long before he even ran for office. He’s done it at least 100 times.

2. His explanation is as simple as it is obvious: Iran is run by a death cult that longs for an apocalypse and it has demonstrated that. Letting them have nuclear weapons would be tantamount to letting a terrorist group have nukes, as opposed to a rational state like China or India.

3. Trump’s vision of America First does not mean pacificism or appeasement. It means America isn’t into nation-building, or into foreign entanglements. A surgical strike is the opposite of an entanglement. It’s like when Trump lobbed a few cruise missiles at Syria in his first term, or when he cleaned out ISIS in a few weeks. Short and sharp.

4. Trump also didn’t risk Americans — he let Israel clean up Iranian air defences for a week.

5. Qatar-paid influencers have been talking about “no war for Israel”. But Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t ask for U.S. intervention. The opposite, actually — since October 7, 2023, he has wanted America to stop telling Israel to fight with one hand tied behind its back, like Biden did.

6. People forget how anti-American Iran has been under the mullahs. “Death to America” is their slogan; they kidnapped American diplomats in the 70's; they murdered 200+ U.S. Marines in the 1980s. They have been a large menace in Iraq, likely responsible for most U.S. deaths there. They harboured the Taliban after 9/11. They tried to assassinate Trump personally. They are America’s enemy as much as Israel’s.

7. Israel wiped out Hezbollah and the bulk of Iran’s military and terrorist regime (with the U.S. doing the one special mission that Israel does not have the technology to do). No-one could possibly think the world isn’t safer today. This is not the start of a world war -- Russia has made it clear it’s going to stay out of it. If anything, this clears the way for the next round of Abraham Accords, the peace agreement between Israel and its Muslim neighbours that Trump started in his first term.

8. Watch the price of oil in the days ahead. It will not spike — things are more stable in the Middle East now, not less so.

9. In terms of regime change, most of the world, except for Qatar-paid influencers, wants the Ayatollahs to go, and the Shah’s son could be a successor. The Iranian people are largely liberal and secular and educated and somewhat wealthy. It’s not like Afghanistan or Somalia, which are failed states. Iran could move forward under a normal government. But even if it doesn’t, a defanged Ayatollah is not much of a risk to anyone.

10. The main risk in the weeks ahead is Islamist terrorist cells across the west. In fact, that’s what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said to Trump this week: according to the Daily Telegraph, he warned that Iranian sleeper cells in the UK could be activated. But that’s a UK immigration and policing problem, not a U.S. military problem.

11. Under Trudeau and now Mark Carney, Canada has no role other than issuing press releases that no-one of any consequences considers. Except that in recent weeks, the Israeli government has warned that members of the Iranian regime may flee to Canada -- where there are already hundreds of Iranian operatives working unmolested by police.

12. The world is more peaceful today than it was before. And America’s reputation is markedly stronger than under Biden. Whether you’re Russia, China, North Korea or Yemen, it’s pretty obvious now that when Trump says, “you have 60 days to negotiate a peace deal”, he means it. America’s back -- no more Obama pallets of cash.

The world is less dangerous. America’s enemies are weaker. Its friends are stronger. Not a drop of American blood has been spilled. This is what America First looks like.

What do you think?