After 108 days of a war reality show, Trump’s fanfare remains — and thousands are dead

For 108 days, international politics has looked less like diplomacy and more like a never-ending theatre production. Threats rolled out like film trailers. Statements shifting from morning to night. U-turns rebranded as “flexibility”. And now we are told there is an “US–Iran agreement”, presented almost as a historic diplomatic breakthrough. It is not.

This is not a final agreement. It is not a fully formed framework with secure, enforceable terms. It is, in essence, a memorandum of...