Repeated blackouts leave residents concerned about food, water supply and Cuba’s future
    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      20 days ago

      This is what those sanctions are meant to cause. The idea is to force a change in regime from within. It’s ridiculous that we’re still doing it 50 years later.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    3013·
    20 days ago

    If any other country like China or Russia blockaded a country to the point where it would cause a collapse … we’d probably start WWIII in defence.

    US does it and it’s just taken as a normal part of world politics and perfectly acceptable.

    What the hell did Cuba do to deserve this? They had a difference of opinion and they didn’t want to be taken advantage of … they’ve since had to be literally starved to death because of it.

    • _Cid_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      192·
      20 days ago

      Errrm Russia is literally in the process of attacking a neighbouring country right now. They are tying their very best to make this country collapse with things far worse than sanctions, and no one has started WW3 yet.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      163·
      20 days ago

      What the hell did Cuba do to deserve this?

      The embargo? Seized a bunch of American-owned property in the revolution. The US said “you can nationalize it, but you gotta pay for it”. The Cuban government said no, and the US said “then we won’t do business with you”.

      Lot of property owned by Americans out there in the world. Makes people think twice about treating it as a free cash grab bag if the last group to try it regretted it.

      Also, as someone else pointed out, it’s an embargo, not a blockade, which would be forcibly preventing them from doing business with anyone else, like, parking warships offshore and not letting anything in or out. A blockade would be an act of war. Embargoes are not.