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Pereira said Cuba placed an order with two Swiss companies that produce respirators with which it had a long-term partnership. But recently, they were suddenly notified that the two companies had decided to terminate their contracts with Cuba as they had been purchased by a US company. As a result, they are no longer allowed to provide supplies to Cuba.
This is so fucking shady.
People who say stupid shit like "China and US bad, but US slightly better" are full of shit. All they ever bring up are China's territorial claims and conflicts from the its previous dynasties. I'd rather judge a country based on what they do now instead of something the Ming Dynasty did hundreds of years ago..
Pretty brazen of them when literally every square inch of the US is stolen land
Moving all 400 million Americans to Tibet and making the most confusing Israel yet
No, you see, we would reinstate serfdom, but only the Americans get to be serfs
But you see there is a transhistorical Chinese psyche. They are responsible for those things. (We aren't responsible for slavery though lol)
People who say stupid shit like “China and US bad, but US slightly better” are full of shit
Western chauvinist DSA glowie voice: "Cuba needs to be destroyed because its a settler colonial state"
I haven't heard that but wouldn't be surprised at all. Funny thing is that only about two islands in the Caribbean still have indigenous people.
What I'm hearing is that the collapse of the American empire will solve a lot of problems
Post this on :reddit-logo: /r/politics and see how quickly it gets shadowbanned
They have a thread on there about Mexico asking for the US to remove the embargo and it's just a bunch of people coping by saying Biden can't do anything about it and then after about 5 comments it turns into communist no food jokes and more of the weird assertions that Cubans have explicitly bad cuisine in general for some fucking reason, except the ones in New York and Miami of course
Absolutely maddening. I spent a decent amount of time living aboard a boat as a child/adolescent in Cuba and its people are some of my fondest memories in my entire life. This shit bums me the fuck out.
It's so weird, like these people just totally forgot that the president can just not do what Congress tells him to unless they impeach him over it, despite all of the bullshit we went through with Trump. They just forgot! :matt-jokerfied:
They want to follow the rules, because not following the rules would mean they have to put some effort into politics
Biden can’t do anything about it
"we need to fight fascism!" vs "I want to be able to ignore the ongoing imperialist genocide so I can go to brunch with my soulless petit bourgeois Karen friends"
A cuba circlejerk subreddit might be useful in countering this. The circlejerk subreddits tend to have a good effect on spreading anti-jerk messaging and creating rhetorical responses people use to push back against it.
I really think things on reddit have to be named for the purpose they perform. Enough_vaush_spam worked so well because the name was correct. I think the name needs to be in the circlejerk zone or it just won't work for people.
This is what sanctions mean for every country under US embargo. Cuba is harsher because it's an island and it's right off the coast of the US so they have an easier time policing its sanctions.
Cubs is also harsher because the policy is, itself, longer-running and more extreme than most, being enforced as a blockade preventing other countries from trading many important items with Cuba.
Exporting medicine is technically allowed but the company involved needs to pass an inspection and a written permission from the President, and the payment must be made in cash in US dollars before shipment and through some non-American bank.
Imagine if we had a repeat of the missile crisis except it was China delivering aid to Cuba instead of missiles, but the US still had missiles pointed at the ships. I really can't see how the US can get so upset by it since they passed a ship through the Taiwan Strait recently. It's pretty tight in the Caribbean so they'd probably even go on the south short instead of right up against Florida anyway.
Then again, I imagine the PLN isn't quite big enough to go sailing around the world like the USN is. It's a fun thought experiment though.
