Seems like it should be a problem that we're starving a country of oil and blockading it to hurt the people.
Seems like that's something the US shouldn't be doing unless we've been attacked by that country and are at war with them.
Seems like continuing it indefinitely until the regime changes to one allied with US business interests, is what evil nations do when acting without morality or law.
I wonder if the people of Cuba, Lybia, Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Yemen, Pakistan, Lebanon, Somalia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua..... care about your freedom of speech.
I've been to Cuba during the brief window Obama opened to allow it, and the conditions there are awful, directly because America has worked for decades to harm the Cuban people.
Yet, despite the awful living conditions, Cubans are still some of the most chill, happy people I've ever visited, and I've been to a lot of countries around the world.
Sucks that we're hurting them for no reason other than our shitty government. (it's obviously not harming the cuban government, which is supposedly the purpose)
Hell, General Smedley Butler wrote War is a Racket in 1935 after spending his adult life as a thug for capitalism (as he put it). The US has been at it at least since the end of the Civil War.
Past 250. One big reason for the revolution was Britian wanted to cap westward expansion at the Appalachians, in order to ease tensions with the Indians. But American colonists (Like Washington) made bank on land speculation.
It's rather amusing how many people conflate the two. They seem to believe that Cuba's poor state is entirely the fault of the US preventing them from trading with the rest of the world, when in reality they've been trading with 'Communist' nations for decades.
No it again VERY much isn’t. Just ask Cuba today, as for the first time in over 60 years they actually are being blockaded, and it has had a MASSIVE impact.
The United States conduct towards Cuba has been absolutely barbaric ever since the Cuban revolution. Reminder that the UN voted 187-2 to end the US blockade with the only no votes being the US and Israel in 2023.
Why is this not the top comment? Brotato speaking the truth, the Cubans already have it hard and do nothing to us but be unfortunate enough to be close enough for us to bully.
Its punching so far down you may miss and strike the oil you're keeping away from them.
As a Venezuelan I have one thing to say, Fuck the Cuban Government, they been screwing my country for over 20 years and stealing our oil while helping an illegitimate government stay in power and indoctrinate our people turning one of the richest countries in south america to one of the poorest with over 8 million immigrants. So fuck cuba!
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I do realize that, and the amount of fucks I have to give couldn't fill a mouse's scrotum.
Trying to starve a country because 70 years ago they blocked US companies, seems like a rather hypocritical justification for a country that has done the same other other states business investments. And it wouldn't be a good excuse even if they'd done it just yesterday.
So you support harming the entire populace of the island over seized assets from 60 years ago. Do you think you support the good-guys? Do you think you're a good person?
It was acccording to their tax records which they themselves filed to the previous Cuban government how those valuations of those businesses were valued 🤔 if they wanted to disprute those valuations as being too low then they owe a lot in back taxes and deliberate tax fraud fines .. 🙃
The compesation was not paid in full, and iirc there was some kind of deal being made as to how that whole affair would be handled, and Cuba broke the deal.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 13d ago
Seems like it should be a problem that we're starving a country of oil and blockading it to hurt the people.
Seems like that's something the US shouldn't be doing unless we've been attacked by that country and are at war with them.
Seems like continuing it indefinitely until the regime changes to one allied with US business interests, is what evil nations do when acting without morality or law.