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The US starves anyone it does not like from natural resources and subsequently makes them buy US natural resources. It has done this to the EU, now it is trying
by asHqar 5mo ago
The US starves anyone it does not like from natural resources and subsequently makes them buy US natural resources. It has done this to the EU, now it is trying to do it to China and Cuba.
This way they can control everyone.
- some_random 5mo agoThe US is explicitly not letting Cuba buy US goods, that's literally the only thing it's doing.
- dgacmu 5mo agoAs noted above: The US is threatening tariffs on any nation that sells oil to Cuba. That's quite different from simply refusing to trade with it, it's effectively preventing Cuba from buying oil from Mexico, among other sources.
- reillyse 5mo agoalso physically preventing ships from delivering fuel to the Island. It's all even more cynical and hypocritical when compared to the strait of Hormuz debacle, how can the US pretend that Iran must allow oil tankers unobstructed passage (international laws, ships at sea bla bla bla) when the US is deliberately preventing oil ships to travel to Cuba.
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoAnd blockading Venezuelan oil from reaching the island. Don't forget that part.
- palmotea 5mo ago> And blockading Venezuelan oil from reaching the island. Don't forget that part. Is the new Venezuelan leader still trying to send Cuba oil? Or has she stopped that?
- dpark 5mo agoShockingly they stopped sending oil after the US deposed their leadership and told them they better stop now “or else”.
- Manuel_D 5mo agoThis is the exact opposite of what the US is doing to Cuba: The US isn't making Cuba by US resources, it's prohibiting Cuba from buying US resources and products.
- ashg100 5mo agoThey are threatening all other countries with secondary sanctions: > "This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country, threatening irrational tariffs against any nation that supplies us with fuel," Diaz-Canel wrote. Once a regime change is accomplished, Cuba will buy US energy and not Iranian or Russian. So go the plans at least.
- Manuel_D 5mo agoThe above commenter quite explicitly said that countries are being forced to buy resources from the US which is the exact opposite of an embargo.
- dpark 5mo agoYou cannot be serious. Combining a shakedown with an embargo does not mean the embargo doesn’t happen. The US is also not actually sending oil to Cuba so the scenario above is hypothetical, not real.
- Manuel_D 5mo agoYes the embargo is real. The point is, what the above commenter wrote: > The US starves anyone it does not like from natural resources and subsequently makes them buy US natural resources. It has done this to the EU, now it is trying to do it to China and Cuba is the complete opposite of an embargo. The US is not making Cuba exclusively purchase oil from the US, it's prohibiting US oil produces from selling to Cuba. Whatever speculation about what the US will do following some hypothetical regime change is irrelevant.