The truth on the other hand, is the unshakable reality that has driven every sanction, every sabotage attempt, and every assassination plot since 1959: Cuba is a threat only to an idea. It is a threat to the imperial doctrine that a small, poor nation in America’s ‘backyard’ must not be allowed to choose socialism, to provide free healthcare and education, and homes to live without the permission of Washington.
For this sin of self-determination, the crime of building a society where capital is not god, Cuba has been punished with the most enduring economic siege in modern history. This is not an ‘embargo’, which I consider to be a sterile, political term. It is a total blockade, designed to constrict and cripple. It is enforced by a plethora of laws with names like the Helms-Burton Act, which terrorises foreign companies from trading with the Island and allows the US to seize ships in international waters. Its goal, as US politician Robert Torricelli once admitted, was to…
‘Wreak havoc’.
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“People in socialist countries starve because we starve them”
Why the quotes?
I’m saying the US basically says this.
“One of”. This is US history we’re talking about - the bar is in orbit.
True.
And because all of this shit they have been throwing on the Cuba, they can claim socialism doesn’t work.
I would say resisting 66 years of unceasing hybrid warfare from the biggest superpower in the world right next door is pretty good sign of resilient and working system.
And yet Cuba has higher life expectancy than the US lmfao
Small Island nation resists the world’s largest and most advanced military for 70 years. Develops state of the art health care system, modernizes energy and transportation, becomes a global tourist hotspot, all under US blockade
Socialism doesn’t work
The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me. Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.
Isn’t that why usa/cia do so much to keep them disablized?
B-b-b-bingo
Wanting and having the will to do what needs doing are different things.
The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me.
There has been one. It’s just composed of imperial powers and their corporate proxies.
The defense coalition existed to intercede against slave revolts, anti-colonial nationalism, and Communist uprisings. It has been very successful.
Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.
Join the club
Name a worse diaspora than Cuban Americans. Israelis don’t count
South African
colonialistsdiaspora in piSSreal is borderline the most Satanic of the lot out thereIranian diaspora gives them a run for their money
I hope and pray that the Cuban people stand together and persevere. May this be the final nail in the empire of evil.
Add that to the endless list of war crimes that shithole empire did/does to rest of the world.
What what whaaaa??? I thought the US was a force for supreme goodness up until the millisecond that Trump became president.
This was most definitely the turning point. And just who were George Dubya, and Clinton, and Reagan, and Nixon, and goddamn Kissinger, and Robert McNamara, and the Dulles Brothers, and all the slave owners who founded the country?
A shining city upon a hill, manifest destiny, exceptionalism. Well-meaning promoters and protectors of democracy forever and always. Just what would the rest of the world do without you?
/s in case anyone actually needs it.
How the USA destroyed Cuba with economic sanctions
did you know that, during the Covid pandemic, the usa refused to allow countries to sell respirator parts to Cuba? Hundreds died choking on their own bile, meanwhile Cuban doctors traveled the world administer free vaccines to poor countries.
https://pca.st/episode/b9afd925-9da1-48c9-a227-d9186df15dc5
https://pca.st/episode/44db48f6-45f7-4d79-92a0-6ad596da8c6b
https://pca.st/episode/6e3f6be7-a968-4126-83ab-9dbb68278628
How the Cuban communist government changed their entire food system overnight because of sanctions
https://pca.st/episode/0b790d39-e5c7-4d9c-9633-b58690596178
How Britain plotted to spread homophobia in Cuba
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-plotted-to-spread-homophobia-in-cuba/
Here’s a REAL Cuban telling you what trump has done/doing
https://pca.st/episode/5b53a084-d12e-4e76-ad85-7d4820fedbc8
Hasan on Cuba
A Cuban, on Cuba: https://peertube.world/w/eh7KeUBRpKVWjfBfFRh1qU
All of American media is a psyop designed to give well meaning people an excuse to do immeasurable harm via the american military
I had no problem with Cuba. Nice place to visit in winter. No Americans.
It is essentially genocide.
I don’t know about that. Genocides don’t usually take 80 years, as the population grows. I don’t think that fits the description.
Genocides don’t usually take 80 years
Found the Israeli
Zionist.
Time period is irrelevant.
Intentionally disrupting a countries ability to prosper and sustain itself with the end goal being loss of lives of those citizens is still genocide.
Bombs or starving. Doesn’t matter the method.
Killing off civilians of a state is genocide.
Attempted genocideScrew my previous comment.
As FunkyStuff says, It is a genocide unquestionably. Millions of lives have been lost around the world due to US sabotage warfare (which the libs love to call “sanctions”) that uses the US hegemony power to strangle countries by any means necessary, all for the benefit of a fascist political agenda.
Cuba has received some of the harshest of the hybrid warfare from America. The fact that you are equivocating about the warfare tactics of a fascist society reflects poorly on you, no different from “but actually”-ing the actions of nazi Germany in the middle of WW2 (while also being factually wrong about your points).
The fact that Cuba can survive and thrive despite the genocide is a testament to their resilience. But a state, and a nation are not one entity. All the extra lives that could have been saved had Cuba been allowed to develop under normal external conditions do not come back to life because the population managed to grow.
Ok shitlib
Not a Lib, loser.
What you say you are doesn’t matter. It’s what you believe and do that decides what you are. And you are running defense for the US genocide using the same tired talking points that are used to deny every genocide.
What we say or do or are doesn’t matter. Your need for strawmen does.
“strawmanning” is a rhetorical fallacy where you point out the logical conclusions that are to be drawn from a person’s statements <- you, an imbecile <- An actual strawman, but just barely.
Learn what the logical fallacies are if you want to throw them out, you moron
Im not the one conflating decades of “embargo” (still fucking horrendous btw) largely dictated by the economic choices of shipping companies whether to serve cuba or the U.S. (hint: companies that make money will choose the profitable option) with the recent extreme escalations by the Trump admin which are attempting to tighten it into a full blockade (which I shouldn’t need to tell you since they’ve been really fucking overtly vocal about their actions and intentions)
I think, based on conversations I have with people in real life and read online, that the people in the US haven’t challenged the 60 years of propaganda about Cuba, and believe it a totalitarian nightmare dictatorship.
I have a close friend who went to Cuba for ecological research (did you know they still have intact reefs) a few years ago, and when they would tell people they were going to Cuba, the most common reaction was a fearful “that’s scary” and a confused, almost accusatory “why”.
I don’t think they realize that everyone else can just go to Cuba, it’s only the blue US passport and a bunch of old white guys, and probably now more Cuban Americans, with their fear of communism and land reform stopping them from enjoying a very nice bottle of state owned rum and an experience of how other people live.
I’m glad other countries have been stepping up to help the people there, the Cuban people deserve happy and comfortable lives, and we clearly don’t have the appetite to stop starving them of that right now. Until we shake that propagandized view, I don’t imagine that will change either.
It is not even in top 10 most barbaric things USA has done in its history.
Cuba is terrible; its own allies have turned their backs on it and dug its own grave.
Cuba is absolutely gorgeous, and it’s a shame that the conservatives have been lying about what we are doing, at their directives for the last 50 years.
I don’t understand why I have to see this posted multiple times when I’ve blocked the poster over and over.
I guess you can’t escape the truth
“A lie travels quickly, but the truth endures.”
