International Cuba getting crushed by Trump's oil blockade

[PainIsLIfe]

Electricity supplies problems didn't had turned ppl in Afganistan to love USSR or later U.S.
Nor also had changed something in Yemen.

More problems : more hate.

Plus Cuba doesn't have just crude oil as source.

Proud U.S can't deal with Yemen nor, let's be realistic, with Gaza tunnels after Benny wasn't allowed to fill tunnels with sea salt water.
HAMAS elite is sitting with generators and power banks, using comps not cheaper than we have etc. They does have real fun today.

What?

 

[Yehudim]

I don't know that I'd agree necessarily, they're bad in different ways. The Islamic Republic is more isolated which comes with causes lots of unnecessary suffering and the recent crackdown by all accounts is as bad as crackdowns get.

But Iran still has a higher GDP per capita and by some accounts before last year's crackdown Egypt had twice as many political prisoners per capita, second only to Syria. And Sisi had his own Tianamen square moment with the Rabaa massacre just a few months after the 2013 coup.

Tbh if we had a competent and popular president I might even support direct military action against Cuba, just fucking wring their necks and get it over with. Iran is a different beast, Iraq but hard mode. Maximum pressure is fine but there's nowhere near the political will for regime change there.

I remember that crackdown, it was nothing compared to what Iran *admitted* to.

That type of crackdown regularly happened in Iran, btw. Internet shutdown, with the killings of a few hundred people in a small area and then business as usual.

Iran is a menace to its neighbors, along with having an incredibly oppressive internal security force with morality police and the like. Egypt, at least as it comes off to me, is like a run of the mill military dictatorship: corrupt, ruthless, but inwardly looking and not as oppressive as other extremist movements like Islamists and Communists.