"For the sake of regional and world peace, the best option may be to help secession happen and thereby take a downsized Iran, freed from a murderous regime, off the geopolitical chessboard entirely."

We won't fully appreciate it until we lose it - but we can't say that we haven't been warned. (This is why European leaders abandoning international law is so bewildering...)

lexinternational.org/internationa...

Since the UN Charter banned territorial conquest in 1945:
- No UN member state has been permanently lost through conquest.
- The amount of territory conquered per year has decreased by 95%
- The probability of a state being conquered has dropped by 87%

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I analyse for @zeteo_news the different paths of intervention Trump may choose - and why all of them are more likely to lead to war than to regime change in Iran.

zeteo.com/p/iran-prote...