Someone literally replied with a photo of an empty fridge

  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    People literally don't think the sanctions are to blame despite there literally being memos from state department officials at the time the embargo began being like "yeah we're going to starve out cuba via sanctions to cause regime change" like they FUCKING SAY IT

    • KnockYourSocksOff [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Pretty much every brutal sanction has been accompanied by a memo saying “our exact goal is to starve the population into regime change.” It has worked before, but it also causes pushes dissidents into submission to the status quo because finding food and overthrowing the state can’t always be done simultaneously. Like look at Venezuela, even the right wing opposition has condemned the US for its sanctions