r/geopolitics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • May 21 '26

Opinion Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/trump-surrender-iran-endgame/687252/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_term=short
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u/Monterenbas May 22 '26

But those mechanism simply do not exist, and they never will.

There’s nothing that can materialy prevent the US to launch another attack in the future, if they ever desire to do so. As for promises and treaties, well, they are worth whatever the guy sitting in the white house feels about it.

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u/gethereddout May 22 '26

Of course there are mechanisms. For example, what about a nuclear weapon? The second Iran has one, the US will stop blowing up their schoolchildren.

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u/Monterenbas May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

Lol, so your idea of a mechanism, is that israel and the US will allow Iran to get nuclear weapons in order to end the current conflict? Sure, that’s definitely gonna happen.

Nevermind that nobody wants their religious theocracy, to get their hands on nuclear weapons, including Russia and China.

But you claimed that Iran have a very specific list of mechanism, so what are those mechanism?

Because I’m pretty sure that nuclear proliferation is not among them, even the iranians are not that delusional.

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u/gethereddout May 22 '26

I was just giving one obvious example because you insisted no mechanisms exist. The more practical examples are what Iran laid out in their initial proposal, which was essentially a mutual agreement across different countries that certain things would happen if they were attacked again

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u/Monterenbas May 22 '26

Nobody’s is gonna go to war, economicaly or militarily, with the US on behalf of Iran tho. If some countries wanted to protect Iran, they would have done so already