As with so much of what Donald Trump says, it sometimes takes a little time to appreciate the full enormity of it, so inured is the world to his excesses.
So it is with his latest incoherent address to the American people, the “update” on his disastrous war with Iran, and its violent aftermath. Mr Trump, in his habitually vengeful way, laid out his latest tactics: “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 belong.”
