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’.
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
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
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
Wanting and having the will to do what needs doing are different things.
“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.
If I were a super perfect president of the United States, I would ask Cuba if they want to join the Union, with all rights and benefits that goes with being a State. This offer also would be extended to territories like Puerto Rico.
IMO, Cuba and other island States have a special potential - as places to try out UBI, universal healthcare, free education at all levels, and other reforms, that can’t be easily implemented in isolation* on the mainland.
*Specifically, I want to try different variations of implementation, to find the best ‘recipe’ for an improved democratic socialism. Islands are good for A/B/C testing, I wager.
*Specifically, I want to try different variations of implementation, to find the best ‘recipe’ for an improved democratic socialism. Islands are good for A/B/C testing, I wager.
Dr. Mengele joins the DSA.
British and Soviets had their famines in India, Ireland and Ukraine. Americans need their own Holodomor
Soviets didn’t have a “famine in Ukraine”, they had a famine in the Soviet Union caused by the need for extremely rapid industrialization started in 1929. If it hadn’t been for the rapid industrialization (which hinged on moving field laborers to factories in cities and was funded with the only product they could export: grain), the soviets would have lost WW2 and tens of millions more of people would have died.
The famine disproportionately affected Ukraine (and other agriculturally strong places in southern Russia and Kazakhstan), but the industrialization also disproportionately benefitted Ukrainians by liberating them from Nazism and saving tens of millions of their lives from Nazi extermination.
If you want some good insight on the soviet famine of the early thirties, I suggest you read Robert B. Allen’s “Farm to Factory”, it makes a very good economic analysis of it.
yeah they had a famine in the soviet union, but the ukranians starved to death in millions
so?
Want to blame the evil RuZZians for it like those Banderite nazis do bcs they got their ass kicked? LOLwho else was leading the soviet union? who exported the food out of ukraine? much like in the irish famine?
You have zero knowledge how the SU even worked.
Where do you think Chruchov came from? The clown who gave Russian Crimea to that temporary anomaly.
IDC what you and your nazi friends imagine happened, it’s BS.
Grasping at straws to justify their Russophobia and blatant fascism.
For everyone to see, even today.You have zero knowledge how the SU even worked.
not quite zero, but i’ll admit, i’m not super knowledgeable
Where do you think Chruchov came from? The clown who gave Russian Crimea to that temporary anomaly.
does it matter? did the ukranian people do it to themselves if that guy was from there originally?
did/does it help the georgians that stalin was from there?Grasping at straws to justify their Russophobia and blatant fascism.
russians keep serving pretty thick and sturdy straws
also, til, criticising the soviet union/russia is fascism
