I think you put my biggest gut punch for this in words I could not, with "this feels like the USSR signing a cease fire right at the gates." but even during the active conflict I was just constantly feeling gutpunched about how, no one was willing to fight with Iran, the hardest step is being the first one in the conflict, I was really hoping that if the war started, unequivicaly with an attack on Iran, more nations would be willing to lend a hand. Instead we saw the world stand and point fingers, and those sympethetic to Iran atleast on paper did nothing more than scream condemnations.