In the early hours of Saturday, Donald Trump announced the cancellation of a planned military strike against Iran, claiming Tehran had sought a diplomatic pause and that the outline of a sweeping agreement — covering the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's nuclear program — had already taken shape. The reversal, coming hours after Trump declared American forces 'locked and loaded,' places the world at one of those familiar and precarious thresholds where the distance between war and peace is measured not in miles but in the credibility of words. History will judge whether this moment represents genuin