It is difficult to discern exactly what the “big stuff” is that prompted President Trump to leave the G7 summit and return to Washington a day early. Mr Trump wouldn’t say what, precisely, but he did advise the 9 million residents of Tehran to “immediately evacuate” their homes, causing mass panic.
Any lingering hopes that the president was going back to the White House to work full time on a ceasefire were extinguished when Mr Trump declared that suggestions to that effect made by the president of France were mistaken: “I’m not looking for a ceasefire, we’re looking at better than a ceasefire.” What the president does want, in his words, is “an end, a real end, not a ceasefire,” and a “complete give-up” by Iran.
