The U.S. still believes it can end a war with a signed agreement, then spend the following months renegotiating the parts it doesn't like.
Glenn thinks the rest of the world stopped believing that years ago.
He says Iran isn't waiting for Washington to honour the MOU, it's establishing control over the Strait of Hormuz and forcing the world to adapt to a new reality instead.
The debate now isn't whether Tehran will have leverage over the world's most important shipping lane, it's how much everyone will end up paying.
Then he applied exactly the same logic to Ukraine.
While Western leaders keep talking about future negotiations, Russia is creating irreversible facts on the battlefield.
Every town captured, every defensive line broken, every buffer zone expanded: each one changes the next negotiation before it even starts.
Then he turned to Europe.
Finland joined NATO, Lithuania opened the door to nuclear weapons, while Poland is preparing for a future confrontation.
European leaders call it deterrence, Russia calls it preparation for war.
Countries aren't waiting for diplomacy anymore; they're reshaping the strategic map first and arguing about it afterwards.
That's the thread connecting every conflict we discussed.
Everyone is trying to create facts on the ground that the other side will eventually be forced to accept.
That's why he thinks Washington keeps finding itself on the back foot.
It still believes agreements create reality, while its rivals believe reality creates the agreements.
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