Threatening regime change, economic sanctions represent criminal war

President Trump continues his fairy tale Iran is bent on restarting its nuclear weapons program it renounced in 2003. By pulling out of 2015's 5 + 1 nuclear agreement and imposing renewed sanctions crippling 80% of the Iranian economy, Trump has essentially declared war on Iran. It would take a psychiatrist, maybe of team of headshrinkers, to figure out the madness of Trump's Iran policy. He's got Secretary of War, oops, that's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, racing around the Middle East trying to line up a worldwide coalition to complete regime change in Iran. Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and Israel are on board. The rest of the world thinks we're nuts. Good luck with trying to establish a friendly government to govern Iran's 80 million beleaguered souls if Trump succeeds. They'll to be as happy with Trump's degrading of their country and their lives as the Iraqis were of George W. Bush when he got hundreds of thousands killed while smashing up their country in his criminal Iraq war sixteen years ago.

Regime change policy underpinned by life debilitating sanctions amounts to criminal war as surely as dropping bombs from planes and drones. We're starving the powerless in Venezuela simply because they are a socialist country refusing American capitalist exploitation. The small, pitifully poor country of Cuba has been enduring US sanctions for sixty years simply for returning its natural wealth to its people instead of its former US masters. Iran, Venezuela and Cuba have plenty of company with 27 other nations the US sanctions in its delusional lust to control the world.

If some mythical country could magically announce regime change for America and follow up with sanctions impacting 80% of our economy, they would likely not see the sun rise tomorrow. It's time for the US to stop its murderous bullying of numerous nations via economic sanctions as well as by those more direct aerial bombs.