2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

[Colin Parkinson]

There was a lot of things the Cuban Communists could have done to ease sanctions over the years, and for awhile they looked like they were going in the right direction, then the hardliners put their foot down and walked back those reforms, preferring to rule a dung heap, rather than slowly give up their grip on power.

 

[Eaglelord17]

Someone remind me what, in the year 2026, is the purported justification for a continued U.S. economic sanctions regime and oil blockade on Cuba?

The US is still mad that their companies lost money from assets seized when the Communists took over from the brutal dictatorship that the US favoured. Any attempt to blame the blockade on ‘dictatorships’ is just a lie, the US has no issues with dictatorships, as long as they play ball in America’s favour. Look at Iran right now, they have been mad there for almost 50 years because the brutal monarch which favoured the US was replaced.

This has nothing to do with what is morally right, the US doesn’t care about that, they only care about their pocket books and who is playing ball with them. Cuba does not and as such is punished for it.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Seen on the former bird app tonight:

Congratulations to Cuba on reaching true net zero.
BZ!

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

The US is still mad that their companies lost money from assets seized when the Communists took over from the brutal dictatorship that the US favoured. Any attempt to blame the blockade on ‘dictatorships’ is just a lie, the US has no issues with dictatorships, as long as they play ball in America’s favour. Look at Iran right now, they have been mad there for almost 50 years because the brutal monarch which favoured the US was replaced.

This has nothing to do with what is morally right, the US doesn’t care about that, they only care about their pocket books and who is playing ball with them. Cuba does not and as such is punished for it.

By seized, you mean stole, right? That is Ultimately what this is about. If there were no consequences for those actions, the US would be seen as toothless and everyone would be doing it

 

[McG]

After more than 65 years, any appearance of American “toothlessness” is not going to be influenced by Trump starting a war of conquest or otherwise subjugating a neighbour. Such a thing would only reinforce other negative visions (expansionist, colonialist, warmonger, unstable).

 

[Remius]

By seized, you mean stole, right? That is Ultimately what this is about. If there were no consequences for those actions, the US would be seen as toothless and everyone would be doing it

Consequences after 65years? Who are they showing their teeth to exactly by doing that? Who else in the world might be seizing and stealing that will take that as any sort of real message?

 

[dapaterson]

By seized, you mean stole, right? That is Ultimately what this is about. If there were no consequences for those actions, the US would be seen as toothless and everyone would be doing it

Hawaii enters the chat.