This is The Guardian.

This 20-minute speech was incredibly bellicose, but I think that it came off to many as a damn

squid.

We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.

We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.

They're really looking for a way out of this to say mission accomplished.

And yet they have this massive problem, which is that they still have a close rate of Hormuz.

And an energy shock that's about to hit the world that is going to make a lot of people doubt

whether this was worth it at all.

More mixed messages from President Trump

who used a White House primetime address to the nation

to promise the U.S. would hit Iran hard

whilst also saying it would all be over soon.

So what to make of it all?

From The Guardians Today on Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. I'm joined by Andrew Roth, the Guardian's

Global Affairs correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Thanks so much for dialing in from Washington.

It's really great to have you on the show for the first time. So when it was announced that Donald Trump would be giving this sort of big prime time address in the White House about the Iran war,

there were perhaps some who would have expected there to be a kind of major announcement on future strategy,

an end to the war, or perhaps something concrete.

But instead we had more of this sort of convoluted, confusing messaging,

you know, like we're going to escalate, we're achieving our aims,

but it's all going to be over really soon. Don't worry about it.

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