World News: Peace Accord Signed, Zero Gains

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Category: World News - Europe

Published on Monday, 15 June 2026 11:10

Written by Olivier Longhi

Even as the United States and Iran peace agreement has been signed quickly, it cannot hide the geopolitical fiasco of a conflict with deleterious global consequences, zero gains, and only the Hormuz Strait reopening as a victory.

"Panem et circenses." How well this world-famous Latin phrase fits with questionable ease the demonstration organized at the White House on the occasion of President Donald Trump's eightieth birthday.

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Between violence and politics, conceptualization of the relationship between winners and losers, pillar notions of the politics of the tycoon tenant of the White House, the ceremony with the whiff of a triumphant Make America Great Again ultimately has the sole objective of making people forget the half-defeat or the half-victory, depending on the degree of optimism of each person, following the war against Iran.

As an agreement is about to be signed, which does not yet include the nuclear issue, the United States and Iran are vying for victory in an opposition that has only had the effect of confirming and solidifying the mullahs' regime to the detriment of the Iranian people, evaded and forgotten to this day, but still oppressed and martyred.

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Destiny in hand

This is also part of the defeat of Donald Trump, who thought, through a lack of geopolitical knowledge and ignorance of the cultural and political forces that are crossing ancient Persia, to bring the Islamic Republic to its knees and push the Iranian people to take their destiny into their own hands.

It turned out that cutting off the heads of Iran's leaders, including that of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, will not have been enough. Having to settle for a minimal agreement, supposed to put an end to the bombings and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump also knows that he has to put up with the ironic and cynical Chinese low masses about Uncle Sam's failure to tame Tehran, as well as the discontent of the Israeli ally, which is still driven by the desire to destroy the Iranian state, with or without the help of the United States.

Some would argue that this conflict, which has destabilized world markets and pushed the West into economic recession, has proven to be zero in terms of geopolitical or geo-economic added value. The United States, attracted by Iran's oil resources, will not be able to use them as it has unilaterally decided to take advantage of them in Venezuela, and will therefore have to continue to deal with Iran, a nation of 90 million inhabitants, held under the yoke of the mullahs, impossible to bend despite all the power of the world's leading nation.

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Birthday Gift

The reality is also not without questioning and recalling other situations, particularly in Ukraine, where despite a patent imbalance, the weakest, or considered as such, has not given in, at most bent but not broken.

As a birthday present, Donald Trump will have to make do with the promise of a minimalist agreement that is supposed to save the results of the mid-term elections, the Football World Cup partly organized on American soil, a low popularity (including within the MAGA base since barely 38% of Donald Trump's supporters support the current conflict) and above all the appearances of a slapped nation that has stumbled against a country of the Middle East, despised and underestimated by a president with a displayed arrogance. " Happy birthday Mister President! as Marylin Monroe sang at the ceremony organized in honor of John Kennedy in 1962....At the White House, the cake is likely to be bitter....

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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently a professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist and recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, was a press and publishing consultant, and was a communications consultant.