• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    3 months ago

    Good news is that US can get fucked at this point. Cuba can trade with BRICS completely outside the dollar. Meanwhile, the burger empire can seethe and cope over it.

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        3 months ago

        That would be risking WW3, even during the Cold War the US didn’t dare blockade Soviet ships coming to Cuba.

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            3 months ago

            I imagine Russia would. Not because they want to defend communism in Cuba, but because they would want to show that they can’t be bullied by the US. We already saw an example of this with Russia doing naval exercises with Cuba just recently. I also can’t imagine that the US would dare attack Chinese ships going to Cuba. As long as there are nations that can’t be bullied by the US who are willing to trade with Cuba there’s nothing the US can do.

            This is why the financial system is such a big factor. When everybody was using SWIFT for international trade, the US didn’t have to threaten military conflict. They could just do sanctions or cut countries out of SWIFT. That was enough of a deterrent to make trade with Cuba unappealing. Now that more and more trade is happening outside the dollar, that threat is no longer there.

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              3 months ago

              I imagine Russia would

              Start a hot war against USA in the central Atlantic? Pentagon would go ballistic, as in “ballistic missiles”, and even if the war stayed conventional, Russian navy would be in a huge disadvantage there.

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                3 months ago

                I mean Russia would continue doing trade with Cuba regardless of what the US says. And if US started sabre rattling then Russia would send armed ships to escort its cargo ones. Even the US wouldn’t be crazy enough to directly attack Russian ships trading with Cuba.