Are Western Sanctions a continuation of the imperial and colonialist past of the West? Is that an odious weapon? Is that the very coercion that the West has so hypocritically accused China and Russia of doing? And there is a real question as to who such sanctions benefit or damage - the regime targeted? the people as collateral damage? the political elite? the world at large? How will Trump's strongarm tactic play out against the heavily sanctioned and beleaguered Iran? Is a resolution in sight? Is another great war approaching?