The Iranian regime was shockingly close to achieving immortality before President Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury. If Iran were allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, regime change from the outside would have ceased to be an option, and the most powerful bomb known to man would have fallen into the hands of radical jihadists.

The biggest reason why Trump could never do to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un what he did to former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro or the late Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is that “Rocket Man” has nuclear weapons and wants the world to know he’ll use them. Because we allowed North Korea to become a nuclear power, the communist regime is a permanent geopolitical fixture — and one the world has to walk on eggshells around.