EDITORIAL_ Time to retire TACO — Operation Epic Fury’s crystal clear message to Putin, Xi (Post Editorial Board - NEW YORK POST)

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Time to retire TACO — Operation Epic Fury’s crystal clear message to Putin, Xi

By Post Editorial Board
Published March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m. ET

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on March 1, 2026 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Getty Images

Among the many, many reverberations of Operation Epic Fury, it’s clearly time to retire TACO — the snarky claim that “Trump always chickens out.”

In particular, President Donald Trump’s decisive move to destroy Iran’s war machinery and take out the regime’s leadership — coming fast on the heels of his ouster of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro — sends a crystal-clear message to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

Events are not only proving Trump to be a man of action, and one whose tough talk is much more than talk, but also a deft builder of coalitions for the defense of freedom.

Yes, only Israel is joining in military action against Tehran, but the Arab states that once would’ve condemned the joint Washington-Jerusalem strikes aren’t calling for a cease-fire but instead condemning Iran — plainly supporting the drive to pull the Islamic Republic’s fangs.

And while Britain’s hapless Labour leader, Keir Starmer, dithered about supposed “international law,” the left-wing governments of Canada and Australia pointedly endorsed the US-Israeli operation — clear signs that the wider West is abandoning the suicidal nonsense that civilized nations must simply manage their own decline.

At a bare minimum, Epic Fury will render Tehran useless as an ally for Moscow and Beijing, and may move it firmly back into the Western camp, where it was before the 1979 revolution.

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/opinion/time-to-retire-taco-operation-epic-furys-crystal-clear-message-to-putin-xi/

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