"It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place and had worked for, for a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it.

I'm hopeful that bombing stops and ordinary people are no longer suffering as a consequence of the war, then in retrospect it's a reminder that on a lot of difficult foreign policy problems, the notion that we can just bully our way or bomb our way to solutions may sometimes seem appealing, but the fact of the matter is that taking the time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of coming up with deals that don't solve 100% of the problem but solve 80%, 90% of the problem while avoiding the necessity of going to war.

You'd think we would've learned that lesson by now, but it seems like every so often we have to relearn that lesson again."

- Former US President Barack Obama

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/obama-says-doubtful-iran-deal-130533518.html

#Iran #Peace #PeaceDeal #PeaceTreaty #NoMoreWar #EndToWar #EndRegimeChangeWar

Can we *cough* the media *caugh* please stop calling it peace talks and peace treaties when violent, opressive, colonialist regimes start a war and then negotiate an end to that war while getting everything they want?

#pacifism #PeaceTalks #PeaceTreaty #peace #war #StopWar #NobelPeacePrize

1815 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812

Text of the "Treaty of Peace and Amity Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America"
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=YFjsv_pBGBYC&dat=18150323&printsec=frontpage
Pg. 2 of 4 (lefthand page)

See also: John Quincy Adams' letter on the final negotiations before the treaty signing
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-03-02-2742
A contemporary assessment of the treaty
https://newspapers.lib.unb.ca/serials/167/issues/34664/pages/247813 1st column ("Extract[....]")
Editorial comment that "the halcyon calm of peace has succeeded to the bustling scenes of war and[...]News is consequently become an obsolete word"
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3661115 Pg. 4 (left column bottom)

#peacetreaty

See also: Treaty of Ghent
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/treaty-of-ghent

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-28-2026/

Мирна угода між Єгиптом та Ізраїлем
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/saseneganu

#Єгипет #Ізраїль #мирнийдоговір #БлизькийСхід #історія
#Egypt #Israel #PeaceTreaty #MiddleEast #History

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!

#wwii #worldwarii #potsdam #peacetreaty #postwar #Germanhistory #britishhistory #history #europeanhistory #militaryhistory

Nga yêu cầu 'văn kiện toàn diện' cho thỏa thuận hòa bình Ukraine. Moskva nhấn mạnh cần nhiều thỏa thuận để đạt hòa bình lâu dài và bền vững, với bảo đảm an ninh cho tất cả các quốc gia liên quan. #Russia #Ukraine #PeaceTreaty #HòaBình #AnNinhQuốcGia

https://vtcnews.vn/nga-yeu-cau-van-kien-toan-dien-cho-thoa-thuan-hoa-binh-ukraine-ar992467.html

Nga chào đón nỗ lực của Nhật Bản ký hiệp ước hòa bình, Kremlin nhấn mạnh ủng hộ việc tăng cường đối thoại và hợp tác với Tokyo. #Japan #PeaceTreaty #Russia #Đối_đoàn #Hòa_bình #Nhật_Bản #Nga

https://vietnamnet.vn/nga-hoan-nghenh-viec-nhat-ban-muon-ky-hiep-uoc-hoa-binh-2456332.html

"Prior to the press conference announcing his plan, Trump cornered Netanyahu in the Oval Office and pressed him to apologize over the phone to Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani for the September 9 airstrike. A Qatari official reportedly helped write Netanyahu’s apology, along with the White House, and remained in the Oval Office to ensure the Israeli leader stayed on script, according to Politico. Trump went on to start the press conference by praising the Qatari leader as a “fantastic person” who “wants peace.”

Qatar has long been a key U.S. ally, but since Trump’s reelection, the Persian Gulf nation has forged an especially close alliance with Trump and his inner circle. Qatar has pumped billions of dollars into U.S. companies over the past year — in many cases enriching companies and business ventures linked to Trump’s family and friends. Meanwhile, it has forged deepening ties with the U.S. military. Whether it was fueled by geopolitics, personal profit, or some mix of the two, Israel’s attack on Qatar appears to have been a spark that spurred Trump into action on Gaza.

“It became quite clear that this really backfired on Israel, that it changed the balance of the debate inside of the administration,” said Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an expert on the region."

https://theintercept.com/2025/10/11/qatar-trump-gaza-ceasefire/

#USA #Trump #Qatar #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #PeaceTreaty