For starters, how the fuck do you enforce an embargo without the threat of violence, and secondly I love how me and all my communist friends are expected to have a PhD in world history and economics while your average liberal can cite two state department links and a CIA funded NGO and call it a day.
“What? The US government punishes whistleblowers?! That’s impossible, we have a Whistleblower Protection Act™! Are you telling me the government doesn’t even care about its own laws?!?!”