That may be, but US sanctions and blockades are famously uselesss --- hell they probably helped the survival of the Cuban government, for example, since globali

That may be, but US sanctions and blockades are famously uselesss --- hell they probably helped the survival of the Cuban government, for example, since globalized trade tends to dominate small open economies which Cuba was until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Iran has an actual civil society unlike the gulf oil slave states we've sucked up to for ages, so they way we've picked sides with that regional rivalry in particular is also a pointless mockery of good planning. This seems to be a like pointless tradgedy that will in no way benefit the citizens of the United States.