Like it or not, Donald Trump is forcing the world to fall into line, writes Giles Sheldrick.
Trump is rounding up the world’s despots one by one (Image: Getty)
While the left continues to work itself into a lather over the increasing influence, reach and impact of US President Donald Trump the tyrants they have vaunted for so long are at last cowering in fear.
After decades of oppression under authoritarian ayatollahs, Iran now stands on the brink of collapse. Until recently open uprising against its religious dictatorship was unthinkable, but now its persecuted people believe freedom is in sight and within reach.
And just like the cowardly brute Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown from his iron-fisted rule of Syria in 2024 and forced to flee, panicked Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks set to join him in exile… in Moscow.
It is becoming a well-trodden path where dictators of the world unite.
While impotent leaders like Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and any number of other European nonentities navel-gaze, Trump has become a titan, a global sheepdog, rounding up the rotten apples.
So much for a president who won two elections on a supposedly shameless US-first agenda.
And no wonder it has cheesed off those who have championed appeasement.
Iran’s cranky clerics are running out of time as 90 million downtrodden people see the light, despite the country being plunged into darkness in an attempt to suppress a nationwide uprising that started two weeks ago.
It is the beginning of the end of 50 years of persecution in this ideologically twisted Islamic Republic.
One by one states that have ruled by subjugation are falling: Assad was driven out of Syria; Hamas was forced to yield and hand back the Israeli hostages it had snatched; Venezuelan tyrant Nicolas Maduro was abducted from his bed, and Iran was blitzed by US bunker bombs and its nuclear capabilities neutered.
Like it or not, Trump is forcing the world to fall into line.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Image: Getty)
Assad, with the help of Russia, suppressed pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring by embarking on a violent crackdown which saw tens of thousands killed and the use of chemical weapons on his own people.
Aided and abetted by Moscow and Iran, Syria became a global pariah yet despite Western-sanctions and international isolation, his regime managed to cling to power until he was overthrown weeks after Trump won the US election.
While the likes of Lewis Goodall, Jon Sopel, Emily Maitlis and other hand-wringers pedal moral outrage, and feign shock and exasperation, Trump has delivered what he promised by largely stopping the illegal immigration flood at America’s southern border and set about clamping down on the rampant drug-fuelled criminality that had become a cancer in his country.
He stopped a regional war in the Middle East at source by taking decisive action against a regime that fuels global terror in his bombing of Iran, and is showing he isn’t afraid of taking on the accepted world order.
In short, Trump has shown actions speak louder than words.
It’s no wonder the silence from despots ruling by fear and subversion in Moscow, Beijing, and the basket case totalitarian dictatorship of North Korea, is deafening.
And it’s why he was – and will be – overlooked for the Nobel Peace Prize by its snooty awarding committee of liberals and back-slapping laissez-faire recipients.
America has always led the world, but Obama and Biden were pushovers, preferring to look the other way and appease those who sought to do us harm.
Trump is the opposite and has given hope to many millions who continue to live under oppressive regimes.
It is, all said and done, a story of good against evil. And a refreshing one at that.
And it is hardly surprising that Putin, who has spun the world a lie for 25 years and continues his bloodthirsty rampage in Ukraine, has suddenly lost his voice: because he surely knows what’s coming his way.
