Jay Thurber Show"But the Ayatollah was a bad guy!"
Just because citizens of another nation don't like their leader doesn't mean they want the U.S. dropping bombs on them. That would seem to be an obvious point.
I don't like the leader of the U.S. but I don't want China dropping bombs on us in order to effect "regime change." Seems to me the quickest way to unite any country is to attack them.
Kevin Karhan 
@jaythurbershow You forget something:
It's only #nuclear / #VetoPowers bullying non-nuclear powers!
@kkarhan Yeah, that's actually a very good point. It's never equals. And as Paul Musgrave writes, it's virtually impossible for small nations to negotiate with the U.S. because of the power imbalance.
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/an-unpopular-doomed-bloody-war
@jaythurbershow one cannot negotiate with fascists anyway, espechally neither Trump nor Putin nor Xi nor Kim…
- The only form of negotiation they ubderstand is being firced into conditionless surrender at gunpoint !