Who Else Wants Trump’s Peace? How 2025 Peace Deals Are Enabling Israeli Killings and US Militarism in 2026  

As Iran and Russia are engaged in ‘peace talks’ with the US or under its supposed mediation, it is important to question the meaning of such talks as far as the pursuit of long-term peace is concerned, since the US and Israel have shown an inability to uphold agreements they sign.

On One-Sided Ceasefire

Peacemaker with Fragile, One-sided Deals

Other conflicts that Trump posed as mediating were between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M-23 rebels in late 2025. However, this peace deal, which was signed by the presidents of Rwanda and DRC in the presence of the presidents of Kenya and the US, broke down a few hours afterwards. Both parties accused each other of violating the terms of the ceasefire after resuming violence that resulted in the displacement of over 100,000. While mediating this conflict, Trump was preoccupied with wrestling the control of DRC’s minerals from the government and handing them over to corporations controlled by his cronies in total disregard of international law and the interests of the parties involved. He even boasted about how Western corporations would take minerals from the DRC and make huge sums of money, which shows how his primary interest was colonial extraction disguised as seeking peace. His greed for other countries’ resources led him to initiate and drive a process that was flawed in its entirety.

Trump also participated in mediating the first round of conflict between Thailand and Cambodia in July 2025, resulting in a supposed peace deal that also collapsed a few months later. Trump’s mediation efforts have repeatedly collapsed as the US administration has pursued narrow-minded interests of gaining or maintaining neocolonial control. Even before Trump, the US and Western European allies repeatedly pretended to pursue a ceasefire, only to secure an advantageous position for their proxies.

Washington’s use of a ceasefire to empower one party is not new and was displayed after the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire of late 2024, which, in hindsight, only bars the Lebanese group from attacking Israel, while the Jewish state has continued bombing Lebanon ever since, to the gloating of Washington’s envoys, including Tom Barack. The case is not any different from how the US and European allies led the Russians to sign into the Minsk I and II agreements, requiring Ukraine to respect the rights of Russian-speaking citizens while barring Russia from intervening in Ukraine. However, French and German leaders would later reveal that these agreements were designed to arm Ukraine, enabling it to overrun the will of its Russian-speaking populations, while fighting Russia to preserve such a status quo. Western media reported that Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the US on February 11 entailed him urging Washington to force Iran to eradicate missiles it used to defend itself from the Barbaric attacks inflicted by both the US and Israel in June 2025. Netanyahu was not pursuing ways of upholding the ceasefire he signed to end the 12-day war but reportedly urged the US to pressure Tehran. It can be deduced that the US and Israel are planning to violate the June 2025 ceasefire, going by Washington’s massing of military capabilities and Carrier Strike Groups around Iran, which shows how both countries are incapable of upholding peace agreements. Therefore, signing such agreements with them is futile as far as maintaining long-term peace is concerned.

The need for countries to engage in talks with the US (as a party or mediator) becomes pertinent amidst its inability, alongside its Western European and Israeli allies, to honor their agreements. The futility of Trump’s highly publicized peace credentials is noted in that he has ordered the mobilization of military assets around the Persian Gulf since mid-January and continues to threaten a war against Iran, despite posing as having brokered an Israel-Iran peace agreement in June 2025. Trump would also reveal details showing that he coordinated with Israel in waging the June 13, 2025, bombing before the US directly bombed Iran. It should be noted that the Israeli attacks, not only against Iran but also all its neighbors, are enabled by the US military, noting that this small country receives American military support equivalent in value to Brazil’s annual military budget. From the foregoing, the US is a participant in the Israeli war against Iran of 2025, and should have taken more effort to prevent the recurrence of this conflict. Surprisingly, Washington has now become the Key driver of militarization and threats, which confirms the futility of having a peace agreement with the US as either a party or a mediator. However, this paper recognizes that there are many other reasons, including diplomatic or strategic ones, that can make Iran, Russia, and others negotiate with the US or under its supposed mediation, which the author may not adequately contextualize.

Simon Chege Ndiritu, is a political observer and research analyst from Africa

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