https://nitter.net/IglesiasVilches/status/1671062461103894534
I wonder where these "economical difficulties" come from, though.
https://press.un.org/en/2022/ga12465.doc.htm
Also, 1. is bullshit too, there are US military bases 0 miles away from China, they have one in Hong Kong (EDIT: used to, was removed by the government in 2020 https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3046733/hong-kongs-fenwick-pier-be-demolished-after-serving-united ) and another in Taiwan.
I wonder where these "economical difficulties" come from, though.
there's a state department memo from some undersecretary of the americas guy or something where he's like "we're going to embargo cuba and the point of it is to starve them to make people mad at the government and overthrow it" and I quoted it and this reddit motherfucker was still like "what about their AUTHORITARIANISM"
there's a state department memo
here: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499
If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
thankfully this vermin is dead already
shame it was a quick one thoughlike for real they just lay out their evil plan and you can show this to a lib and they'll be like BUT WHAT ABOUT EVIL CASTRO
my only response is the ice cream emoji
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and i'm vegan, so thats like big for me
When the US uses the wealth it stole from a country to destabilize it, assassinate its leaders, and to try to return it to a colonial situation to steal its natural and labor resources, they're just supposed to let it happen. If they can't fix decades or centuries of theft in a couple years or months, with all the interference and violence being instigated by the richest nation in history, do they really deserve a chance?
US air carriers are essentially floating bases and they’re always a few miles away from Chinese waters
US Coast Guard ship transited Taiwan Strait after Blinken's China visit
The national security cutter Stratton made a "routine" Taiwan Strait transit on Tuesday "through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law", the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said on Thursday.
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"Stratton's transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the United States' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific. The United States military flies, sails and operates anywhere international law allows," the 7th Fleet added in its statement.
The US has been playing the "We're not touching!!!" game with China for years.
it couldn't possibly be a closely shared ideology
absolutely not
it must be communist mind beams-
Sanctions on trade with Cuba for the last 63 years
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Tourism revenue dropping like a rock in 2020 and not recovering to previous levels and thus worsening access to imports
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Infrastructure problems due to the problems cited above having sporadically persisted over the last 33 years
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Relatively low support for the Government compared to previous years except for maybe the 1990s - even if less so compared to a couple of years ago.
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Modest trading agreements with allies, including even China, often due to similar economic/political problems faced by these governments (Venezuela, Iran) and trading partners without shared interests (the EU, especially Spain) also having economic problems
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Fuel shortages due to continued difficulties in Venezuela and the natural-disaster caused (a lightning strike, of all things) destruction of a major storage facility in Matanzas last year.
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Wave of Emigration since the start of the current economic crisis.
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High Inflation due to all of the above, as well as the currency reform abolishing the Convertible Peso and the legalization of small and medium sized businesses (MIPYMES).
The worst of the crisis is probably over (unless something goes very wrong in the next few months), but Cuba is a country that keeps rolling 1s in recent years unfortunately.
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If any Cuban entertained the idea that the economic problems they faced were because of "government incompetence" or questioned why things were so hard, they have now lived through an easing of sanctions from Obama where life got noticeably better for everyone before Trump turned the sanctions dial up to 11 because he's a fuck, and Biden continued with them because he's psychopath and I'm sure some state department demon twerp convinced him covid on top of sanctions would cause the government to be overthrown or some shit.
Deal with lying psychopaths who want to kill and immiserate you, or deal with another major power whose actually a friend who they can't bully around? Tough choice.
I'm actually not finding a U.S. military base in Hong Kong. Could you provide a link?
Could you provide a link?
I was going off memory and apparently I'm outdated, they used to have one in Hong Kong (Fenwick Pier) but it was demolished in 2020 by the government (source: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3046733/hong-kongs-fenwick-pier-be-demolished-after-serving-united)
The one in Taiwan still exists though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Taiwan_Defense_Command https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/images/map-taiwan-bases.jpg
According to that the taiwan one was shut down in 1979, although it seems like there are a handful of troops around providing training.
According to that the taiwan one was shut down in 1979
Yeah that's the catch with it though, they claim they are just "training troops" and that it's a "taiwanese base" now but they're still US soldiers in China and they keep increasing their presence there, if a war were to break out/Taiwan declared independence we know what would happen.
“One of the difficult things to determine is what really is objectionable to China,” said one of the U.S. officials about the training
Like they're OPENLY stating that they're pushing it as far as China can tolerate, they don't even pretend to not provoke anymore.
It's the same technicality the US uses to justify "defending Taiwan" while at the same time "following" one-China policy as per the 1979 China-US Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations.
There is a 100% chance that there's at least 1 Delta/seal/green beret team ready to sabotage everything of value to the PRC should anything kickoff.
What does the second point even mean? Like, the US has already spit in the eye of Cuba, I don’t think they need swaying by China to see the US as antagonistic.
Also, 1. is bullshit too, there are US military bases 0 miles away from China, they have one in Hong Kong
HONG KONG? How did China allow that, seeing they still control them for the most part?
4 Pinocchio's : while there are American military bases 0 miles from China, the tweet stated that there are none "just 90 miles" away from China. This is true, since there are no US military bases exactly 90 miles from China.
and another in Taiwan.
The Taiwan strait averages about 95 miles. Of course, setting the limit at 90 miles is just an ass pull but technically the statement "no US base within 90 miles of the mainland" would be true.
