This is The Guardian.

Trump has damaged

Trump has damaged diplomatic relations across Europe and the world.

And what has he got out of it?

Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield.

I think it's been a massive strategic failure.

This is kind of the definition of madness, this constant repetition of these kind of same

strategies that never actually make the Middle East more stable.

The US president has abandoned a threat of destruction for Iran

as a last minute two-week ceasefire is agreed.

But does Iran now have the upper hand

and how much of a mess is this for Donald Trump?

From The Guardian's today in focus,

this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

Well, I'm joined by Peter Beaumont, who is a senior international reporter at The Guardian.

Peter, thanks for joining us again.

So I don't know about you, but when I went to bed last night,

I was sort of going to bed with this sense of doom,

of this threat to obliterate a civilization of 90 million people from the US president towards Iran. I woke up several times in a kind of cold sweat during the night to check my

phone to see what happened. And obviously we've woken up to news of a ceasefire agreed at the 11th hour,

two hours before the deadline. What on earth

happens? Yeah, I mean, what on earth? I mean, it kind of like last night felt it's kind of

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