‘Uncle Donald’ shows his mettle – US is combat-ready

THOSE who claimed US President Donald Trump is all talk can now eat their words! Now we know the “reality TV show host turned White House occupant” is a man of action. And how!

Last Tuesday, April 6, he showed the entire world he has more than the guts that are missing in many world leaders today.

It must be noted that he demonstrated his uncompromising leadership and steel-willed courage in not one but two geopolitical fronts almost simultaneously.

Erudite and battle-scarred commentators the world over are at a loss comparing President Trump to any leader who can just even simulate the American’s valor. What they found is a gaping void.

First, he let loose a massive nocturnal missile strike at an airfield in Syria – Al Sharat – on April 6. Two days earlier, attack helicopters of Syrian President Basar Al-Assad had dropped chemical weapons on a northern rebel town called Khan Shiekhoun. The helicopters had taken off from that airbase.

Some 86 Syrian civilians were killed, 27 of them children.

Trump administration officials believed Assad ordered the dropping of the lethal chemical sarin gas on his own people.

And it infuriated not only the United States of America but the entire free world, as well.

On that fateful Tuesday, some 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from US Navy destroyers anchored at the eastern Mediterranean Sea. They all hit their targets, destroying Syrian fighter jets, aircraft shelters, radar and bunkers, and the airfield’s air defense systems.

All that devastation was over in four to five minutes!

The armaments were utilized in a “decisive action.” The US President himself did not ask permission from Congress, as crucial decisions like that dictates.

The President was quoted as saying the aerial raid was vital to the national interests of the US to prevent and deter the use of deadly chemical weapons such as the serin gas.

America could no longer turn away, and turn a blind eye, Trump’s advisers and strategists said.

In another bold move the Trump government ordered the deployment of a naval strike group led by a nuclear powered aircraft carrier to the Korean Peninsula last Monday, April 10.

The action which was labeled “intolerable aggression” by the North Korea leadership, was a determined “show of force” against the Pyongyang government. They have been testfiring medium-range ballistic missiles since last February.

Time and again the US government had been urging the hermit state to abandon its nuclear weapons program. The latter has refused.

The US Pacific Command said the biggest threat in the region is North Korea “due to its reckless, irresponsible, and destabilizing missile tests while pursuing nuclear weapons capability.”

Trump also had strong words against North Korea, saying the US will continue demonstrating “show of force” in the Pacific Region. This threat becomes all the more obvious and clear in the face of the April 6 missile attack in Syria by the US.

In an obvious rebuff to Russia’s Vladimir Putin (protector of Assad) who threatened the US with “dire consequences” should a similar deadly aerial attack be repeated, President Trump has this to say:

“We’ll do it with more ferocity should Assad use again chemical weapons.” That also comes as a warning to Iran’s Ayatollahs, another Assad allies.

In their Florida meeting, Trump told China’s Prime Minister Xi-Jinping that if he would not be able to calm down North Korea, Trump will do it!