I have a slightly different take.

He is doing what Russia wants which actually means get Israel to stop bombing Iran because Iran is an important asset to Putin. In the mean time he can look good for ending the conflict. At least thats what daddy Putin told him.

Iran was informed about the US attack. They made sure there were no casualties and the US promptly proclaimed the nuclear treat was now gone. Then Iran did a symbolic counter attack because all people (including Iran citizens) expected a counter attack.

The message seems to be directed at Israel “we solved the problem, now you can stop bombing”

Except Trump is learning the hard way that Israel is just using him for the fool he is and is in no way going to stop their purge. Basically calling the bluff because Netanyahu stopped caring about how they are perceived a while ago.

Israel played there cards very well realising that Russia is in to much of a difficult position with Ukraine to start a war with them to defend Iran.

I have zero proof of above hypothesis but its what emerges in my autistic head if i do go over all the details and in context it just makes a lot of sense to me.

There is a word for this framing of reality and its hypernormalization.

If you call that out, you'll be shouted down for being antisemitic.

I will now explain this in the only way acceptable in society today,

THROUGH SONG! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrTnWDTdwI

Yeah we don't call it that here in the states. I've heard 'the r word' but never 'hard r'. We reserve that terminology for the OTHER hard R.

Yeah, the short of it is that it used to be used clinically to describe developmental disorders but fell out of use around the mid-90s because, like so many other words, it was used maliciously to the point where it lost its original meaning and context.

If you were a 90s kid, retard and gay were as close as you could get to actually swearing without getting in trouble and basically carried the same cultural weight as outright slurs. The stigma around being gay was so bad that in the 2000s they made up a sexuality to describe men who were straight but liked to shower and dress in nice clothing so that they wouldn't lose their jobs. And the stigma around mental needs little explanation, I think. It wasn't that long ago that they were electrocuting people and cutting out parts of their brains for being sad or having a stutter.

I suspect OP is using it wrong. Usually "the hard R" refers to a really bad "no-no" word.

Though the phrase has probably become a slight meme due to Linus from LTT getting the phrase's meaning wrong in the same way you guys have, but on a live broadcast.