One of the political commentators on YouTube whom I watch regularly is Phil Moorhouse from the channel A Different Bias. He offers the perspective on global and European news from a British perspective, and thus has insights that cannot be easily gleaned from either American or EU-based sources. And today I learned that British diplomats were present in negotiations with Iran, and they concluded that

1. Kushner is clueless, and Witkoff is witless
2. Iran posed no immediate threat and was behaving actually reasonably as far as international power politics go.

To me, it looks like the obvious has been confirmed again:

1. Trump is an idiot who only succeeded by gulling the circa 30% of Americans by playing on the combination of their bigotries, gullibility, and even greater stupidity than Trump’s.
2. Negotiating with Trump is useless; he is a treacherous asshole who will backstab or betray anyone, renege on any deal made, ignore any treaty or law, as long as he thinks he will get away with it. Any agreement with such a person is worthless.