Only note is that Khameini and many of the political/military class of Iran have faced a genocidal war, or at least an existential war. That being, the war against Iraq who indiscriminately used gas attacks and terror bombing during 8 years of bitter fighting, including the largest Iranian air disaster in history when the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Airlines flight 655.

The west must taste defeat, and not a defeat where it simply chooses to weasel away troops over a few years whilst their proxy security force gets overwhelmed; they need to be evicted with great force. It may end up in endless escalation and victory for imperialism, but allowing the imperialists to pick and choose when they win or lose based on what suits their goals given them a god complex, and only buys them time as they whittle down smaller alliances and challengers to the unipolar world order.

Jakarta method never ended.

I genuinly don't understand how any single world leader can still think about negotiating with the west. It's a death sentence and they just walk right into it and doom us all.

Your opponents are agreement incapable.

This really is, like, one of the most consequential takeaways of the 21st century. That the west does not make reliable agreements nor does it keep it's word. It's extremely obvious that the west's opponents will now all begin to think like this, yet the mere idea of that is completly absent from mainstream media, somehow they still represent tje west's opponents as the inflexible ones.

I think you can probably still make some kind of deal, the ukraine war will probably end in a deal, china will still be seeking deals, but it'd be stupid to immediatly come to the table when the west tells you and not play hard to get, and even stupider to not get strong guarantees as well as some type of sanction for when the west breaks them or disregards them

every year or two, we get another country or leader that thinks that they'll be the intelligent, crafty ones to finally manage to make a deal that puts them in front and disadvantages the Americans and high-mindedly thinks they're saving their country from war and bloodshed, and inevitably, the US and their allies take advantage of every single tiny little point or loophole in that deal until they break it when the time is right for them to do so.

and all anti-imperialist forces seem to do is bleat about how that's "unfair" and that these diplomatic tricks are somehow a) new and b) portend the downfall of the West because other nations will see how unfair the US is, when in reality breaking deals might actually be the oldest things that the Americans have done, right from the inception of the state as a British colony, and are partially the reason that they ascended to world hegemon in the first place

I really hope that Iran has spent the last year or so preparing as much as possible, because if not, it demonstrates that there's just some fundamental naiveity that prevents the anti-imperialist camp from observing a conflict and going "hm, gee, negotiations and diplomacy didn't work there! guess I can't do that with the US in good faith!" and millions, maybe even tens of millions may die before they, as you say, harden their hearts