Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to brief President Donald J. Trump on fresh options to counter Iran’s growing military capabilities, a move that underscores how real leaders prioritize American and allied security over appeasement. The report that Netanyahu will press Washington to consider targeted strikes comes as intelligence shows Tehran is rebuilding critical missile and enrichment infrastructure damaged earlier this year.
This is not idle saber-rattling; Israel and the United States struck Iranian facilities in June 2025 for a reason, and the fact that Iran is already trying to reconstitute those capabilities proves the job wasn’t finished. Netanyahu’s warning about a rapidly expanding ballistic missile program is the kind of clear-eyed intelligence the world ignored for too long when weak administrations promised diplomacy would be enough. The lesson is simple: strength deters; hesitation invites aggression.
Netanyahu reportedly plans to lay out concrete options to President Trump at a Mar-a-Lago meeting later this month, including calibrated strikes or joint operations, giving Washington and Jerusalem the range of choices necessary to keep America safe and Israel secure. Any leader who refuses to discuss options when an existential threat is rebuilding behind closed doors is failing their people. The meeting, reportedly set for December 29, 2025, is exactly where such serious strategic conversations should happen.
President Trump’s foreign policy has been about deterrence and results, not lectures and press releases, and that posture is exactly what toppled Iran’s momentum earlier this year. Conservatives should cheer a White House that listens to allies and prepares to act decisively rather than get bogged down in virtue-signaling and red tape. The alternative—relying on international committees and wishful thinking—is what got us into crises in the first place.
At the same time, the administration has been ramping up pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s criminal regime in Venezuela, moving from sanctions to a tougher posture that includes seizures and a naval blockade of sanctioned tankers to choke the cash that funds narcoterrorism. If the goal is to deny kleptocrats and drug-running dictators the resources to export chaos, this kind of muscular economic and military pressure is exactly the medicine America needs right now.
Americans who value peace through strength should be proud that our leaders are not afraid to confront two of the hemisphere’s and the Middle East’s worst threats in short order. The Trump administration’s willingness to coordinate with Israel while choking off Maduro’s lifelines sends a clear message: America and its friends will not be pushed around. Let the media howl and the magistrates scold—the job of preserving liberty and protecting our people does not come with applause, it comes with results.
