When 8 isn't enough

The US war party is not satisfied with dropping thousands of bombs on the eight countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Niger, Syria and Libya. Now they're spoiling for a fight in three more: Venezuela, Iran and the big prize, Russia.

They hate the Venezuelan socialist government of Nicholas Maduro so much they're choking off their oil industry, causing starvation and other suffering to Venezuela's 32 million in a so far futile attempt to get Maduro's military to dump him in favor of the US puppet Juan Guaido. VP Pence told the UN last week the US would remove Maduro one way or the other...the other being military intervention. It's no consolation Pence prefers induced starvation to war.

If choking off Venezuela's oil might work there, why not try it on Iran? The US is hell bent on regime charge in Iran as well. First step was withdrawing from the 5 + 1 Iran nuclear agreement, the 2015 deal that ended the threat of war with Iran till crazy new US leaders got involved. Next up is choking off Iran's economic lifeline of oil sales which is a virtual declaration of war. Ask yourself how the US would respond if a big power would threaten to wreck the US economy in an explicit attempt to overthrow our government?

But the biggest risk to more war is the US attempt to degrade Russia. Ever hear of DASKA? It's Senate Bill S-1189, "Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019". It will require our war mongering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to determine whether the Russian Federation should be designated as as state sponsor of terrorism. The war party based in Washington DC does not have to look 4,857 miles away to Moscow to find a state sponsor of terrorism. They just have to look in the mirror.