I am rereading Kissinger's World Order. He died at 100 on November 29, 2023, but the book was written in 2014. He was against negotiations with HAMAS for peace; he advised reaching some acceptable mechanism for co-existence. Trump is following his advice in fighting the Ayatollahs: he is not interested in peace, but in working rules for maritime passage through the Hormuz Strait and controlling the development of nuclear power. Even these limited aims are very difficult for a utopian regime, which is convinced it is doing God's work in bringing back Islam as they imagine it was under Mohammed and Abu-Bakr. 1600 years ago in Arabia.
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