https://apnews.com/article/europe-latin-america-middle-east-business-cuba-bf38ea2b62324cbd9ed3ce10905883d8
There's a stark difference between the two Ukrainian states.
One was a Socialist Republic, the other's a fascist oligarchy.
oddly enough even shitty post-soviet ukraine voted yes on this motion between most years between 1992 and 2019. After 2019 they started abstaining again.
Cuba is so fucking based. They also sent troops to South Africa to fight apartheid with Nelson Mandela
He said Cuba’s government also “has used harsh prison sentences, even against minors, intimidation, tactics, arrests, Internet disruptions, government-sponsored mobs, and horrendous prison conditions to try to prevent Cubans from exercising their human rights.”
Fuck you
Kelley said, “the people of the United States and U.S. organizations donate a significant amount of humanitarian goods to the Cuban people, and the United States is one of Cuba’s principal trading partners.”
Fuck you
I have nothing else to say
The US literally runs a torture camp there wtf are they talking about with 'harsh prison sentences'
Ukraine: The embargo is wrong, but we need more US weapons!
Brazil: The embargo is wrong, but we don't need a US backed coup!
Bolsonaro is in power until Jan 1st, 2023, so this is more like "we need a US backed coup!"
"My gun is bigger than yours" has been a cornerstone of imperial law since time immemorial
The US has a lingering hard-on for Cuba in the way that the Chinese mainlanders still assert ownership of Taiwan.
Like, you've got a huge cartel of chuds on the Florida peninsula who unironically think they're just going to paddle back across the Gulf and pick up where they left off 80 years ago. They see the entire island as an American colony in revolt and won't be happy until Cubans are in a Haitian/DR/Puerto Rico like relationship with the States once again.
I see the international community stands united in their support of the sanctions imposed by the rules-based international order on the Cuban regime.
Forgive me for I am very dumb, but what purpose does the UN serve?
Do they just vote on things and everyone just ignores it? Clearly we’re going to take this very seriously over in the US.
Pretty much. The embargo functions by banning any ship that docks at a Cuban port from doing business in any American port and blacklisting people and institutions from doing business with America if they've done any with Cuba. The American market is so huge and international that this allows us to unilaterally blockade the country just with our economy - and that's before taking into account things like the US Navy literally committing acts of piracy in order to prevent embargoed countries from trading with each other (as we did with Venezuela and Iran a yearish ago).
Hypothetically, the UN could pass a resolution to embargo the US until we drop the embargo on Cuba, but I don't see that happening.
Hypothetically, the UN could pass a resolution to embargo the US until we drop the embargo on Cuba, but I don’t see that happening.
:sicko-wistful:
And when there is trade with Cuba, it is very expensive because of these rules, so prices are very high in Cuba because of it. For example, for China to trade with Cuba, it has to send a ship that will only go to Cuba but then not the obvious nearby ports in the US, which means they need to create dedicated Cuba-trading-routes rather than using more cost-optimized international ones.
Yeah mostly. Honestly outside of the security council I can’t really tell why it exists at all.
So that a few dudes got a nice dinner at the Fairmont hotel in SF in 1945
theres evil parts (security counci, IMF, world bank) and decent parts (WHO, UNESCO, IPCC). land of contrasts as it can only be when you put the Great Satan in the same org as the Reds
This is the real answer. There's a load of important shit that would never get done without the UN. Yet there's also plenty that's completely captured by the US/NATO (and rarely but occasionally others too).
Never mind the veto, basically the UN is often good at doing things - but those things can never substantially go against US interests.
meanwhile american chvds literally think the UN is some kind of commie boogeyman that's gonna send blue helmets to their libertarian compound
wtf is israel’s issue with cuba? or are they just showing solidarity among shitheads.
As far as I'm aware, they almost exclusively vote with the US, so the latter
nazis think Israel controls the USA but it's really the other way around
Modern Israel has always been a laboratory for dark US/UK interests.
Anti-democractic reforms; try it in Israel. Extreme anti-riot tactics; try it in Israel. Draconian police state tactics that target minorities but spare the electorate; try it in Israel. Digital media censorship; try it in Israel. Online misinformation and discrediting of political challengers online; try it in Israel. Experimental or non-conventional arms; try it in Israel.
And on and on and on and on...
Its crazy when even the UK is done with your bullshit but Israel hangs in there.
Salt because of Cuba's contribution to dismantle Apartheid rule in South Africa, who has in a span of 30 years, gone from one of the biggest simps for Israel to now borderline hostile against it.
I only learned that Cuba helped with abolishing Apartheid in South Africa thanks to Blowback. The things they don't teach you in school. Listen to Blowback everyone.
it's become a yearly tradition for me to collect the screenshot from this. Every year for the past 30 years it looks like this more or less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi9asaZCB5w
Are the coutries in black those boycotting or otherwise absent from voting at the UN?
Iran, Venezuela, and Sudan lost their voting rights in January due to unpaid UN dues. The dues are unpaid because of US sanctions which prevent these countries from paying the US dollar-denominated debt. Ben Norton talks about it here:
https://youtu.be/cpiF6JYepfI?t=9m58s (starts at 9:58)
In the case of Iran, Occupied Korea paid Iran's dues with frozen assets. Not sure what happened with Sudan.
