The most successful peace processes are often those that allow the stronger party to continue the war under diplomatic cover.

Bombs fall. Ports close. Civilians die. Then diplomats appear before polished lecterns to announce that dialogue remains “constructive.” Constructive for whom is never explained.

Bombs fall. Ports close. Civilians die. Then diplomats appear before polished lecterns to announce that dialogue remains “constructive.” Constructive for whom is never explained.

Not for those beneath the aircraft. Not for the states ordered to negotiate while under attack. But extremely constructive for empire, which has perfected the art of converting aggression into procedure and coercion into statesmanship.

The emerging American-Iranian “peace process” belongs to this tradition of organised fraud.

A Pakistan-brokered, 14-point memorandum was presented as a path toward ending hostilities, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, suspending attacks, and negotiating a durable settlement. Within weeks, the United States resumed strikes across Iran. Tehran retaliated against American military infrastructure and regional facilities used to sustain Washington’s war machine. The diplomats continued talking. The missiles continued flying.

This is not diplomacy failing. This is diplomacy doing its job.

The model is Oslo. Oslo did not simply fail to halt Israeli colonisation. It gave colonization a timetable, a vocabulary, and international protection. Palestinian resistance was converted into negotiation; negotiation into delay; delay into settlements, checkpoints, land seizures, assassinations, and walls. Israel manufactured facts on the ground while Western diplomats manufactured expressions of concern.

The model is Oslo. Oslo did not simply fail to halt Israeli colonisation. It gave colonization a........

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