US & Israel oppose entire world in UN vote to end Cuba blockade
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The continuing American embargo on Cuba after the Cold War has always been toddler tantrum level of pettiness.
I thought Obama had finally closed that chapter, but I was wrong.
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This is a Cuban vs Cuban issue. The rest of the US doesn’t give a shit.
Blame Cubans in south Florida. South Florida used to counter balance the Northern Red parts of Florida. After Obama loosened restrictions on Cuba they overwhelmingly voted Republican which caused Florida to move from purple to consistently Red in subsequent elections.
Cuban expats in SF hate Communism, Castro and any government descended from either of them. As long as they vote against any candidate or party that will loosen restrictions no politician will touch Cuba.
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Soooo wtf are these Cubans thinking? These embargoes hurt the people in Cuba. So Cubans in Florida are basically Republican women? As in, they’d gladly hurt those like them as long as they can feel superior?
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Absolutely. See also: increasingly conservative Mexicans in US border states who support building a wall.
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Its the “pull up the ladder” phenomenon. You even see it in places you wouldn’t expect, like US workers opposing student loan forgiveness proposals because they had to pay, and want to make damn sure everyone else has to go through the pain that they did.
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This is the only map I can find where Israel disagrees with the US.
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I used to believe that the Cuba embargo is due to Cuban refugee vote in Florida.
But that doesn’t make sense anymore given that Florida is no longer a swing state. In fact it never really made sense since the demo that is very pro-embargo has always been solidly Republican and therefore unwinnable.
So what really explains the embargo? Quite frankly I think it’s banana republic foreign policy and wealthy people in the US not wanting there to be a successful socialist state. For instance, the recent energy crisis in Cuba is driven by the Biden administration sanctioning oil tankers who visit the island. Why on earth would the supposedly pro-Cuba democrats do that? Who asked them to do that? Who had the clout to make them do that? Some losers in Florida who were going to vote for Trump in a red state anyway?
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This is correct, the US takes the threat of a good example very seriously, and has meddled in every single attempt at building any state, not only communist ones, that refuse to be controlled by US capitalists.
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