Fun fact, maintaining the naval blockade through the armistice until the final peace treaty was signed was also what the Allies did to Germany after WWI, so there's real precedent for.
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Except they weren't the Allies then, they were the entente. And the US wasn't allied to anyone.
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The Entente was specifically Britain, France, and Russia; by the end of the war people were talking about the Allies to include all the other countries that had joined. Even the title page of the Treaty of Versailles refers to “The Allied and Associated Powers” and not the Entente.
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From what I remember of history class… everything worked out fine for everyone involved
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Also, Germany was strategically defeated in ww1. As far I as can see, Iran did not have its Bedingungslose Kapitulation moment.
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and austria. Caused famine in Vienna
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So close I am actually the Saudi Aramco Chair of Warfighter Studies
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As I was saying.......
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in fairness he could mean attacking Cuba or Greenland
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For years, I've been flabbergasted ANYONE still willingly participates in ANY negotiation of any agreement intended to extend beyond a few hours with Michelin Mussolini.

Not saying I'm a fan of Iran but I would NEVER pull back from having a very tangible stranglehold on Hormuz.
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how did that work for the goal of arriving at a peace treaty that was commesurate with material conditions and would not lead to a new, larger conflict though?
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Honestly? That part worked fine. The horror of the next generation of Germans being an inch or two shorter on average stopped small wars for the next 15 years or so.
It turns out that economic sanctions are more effective as a threat than as an action, unfortunately.
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Versailles was certainly an imperfect treaty. But the actual historians I've spoken to generally believe that we really exaggerate its flaws in pop culture. It wasn't that abnormal for its time, either, just look at the Treaty of Frankfurt.
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Fine. Ww2 was caused by Germans being evil
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