Strikes on Houthis show Trump isnt Joe Biden mumbling Dont

The change in White House leadership is promising change in the Middle East.Big change.Needed change.President Donald Trump made that crystal clear by launching a campaign against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen over the weekend.In contrast to President Joe Biden’s repeated, hollow “Don’t”s, which everyone ignored, it was action.Which is why Iran should take Trump’s warning on Truth Social to heart: “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN” — and Tehran will “suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”Russia, too, needs to listen up.The attacks on Houthi positions — hitting 30 sites Saturday and more every day since — signal a new response to the Houthis’ terrorist assault on global commerce, far more lethal than Team Biden’s.It’ll be an extended campaign, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced, aiming to destroy the Houthis’ ability to strike international shipping: US attacks will be proactive and meaningful, not just symbolic pinpricks.Israel senses the shift: It’s felt free first to cut off aid shipments to Gaza, then to start striking Hamas sites again Monday (wiping out several of the terror group’s leaders) and then to resume ground operations.The “nature of Israel’s operations against Hamas” going forward will be “very different,” Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter told The Post, citing the change in Washington.Still, the roots of the trouble lies with Iran.Trump just sent its leaders a letter offering to negotiate a deal on its nuclear program, but he’s also warning that diplomatic inaction will invite military action: “Something’s going to happen one way or the other,” declared the prez.

And if the United States has to “go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing” for Iran.Imagine Joe Biden threatening anything close to that.Striking Iran’s nuclear infrastructur...