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.

 

[Islam Imamate]

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.

The recent crackdown is worse Rabaa but 1,100 protesters killed in a day is nothing to sneeze at. Plus we give the Egyptians military aid which is not a good look if we want to make the rights based case against Iran even if Iran is worse.

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.

I think military regimes are among the worst in the planet and Egypt is a good example of why. To the extent the Islamic Republic is bad imo it's because it has similar features to Egypt; large, opaque corporatist structures that dominate the economy and a robust military apparatus to repress the population. In Iran it's based more on having a deep reservoir of committed paramilitary personnel rather than Egypt which relies more on hardware like armored vehicles and whatnot but they're more like each other than either are to the Gulf state for example.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

I never understand why the US didn't lift the embargo decades ago when the Cold War ended.

I mean, the Cuban regime is a disaster and set to fail, so why give them an excuse to put the blame of their misery in the american embargo and policies? If anything it galvanizes whatever nationalistic will still existing around the current regime, as Cubans are proud AF.

Yup. And American aggression is what drove Cuba towards the Soviet Union to begin with.

There have been tons of other military coups in Latin America that resulted in reform, not radical change. Cuba could have easily gone the way of the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s and gone back to parliamentary democracy, elections, etc.

But after they allied with the USSR, their fate was sealed. They had to be punished for their defiance, no questions asked.

 

[TrueBias]

In before a bunch of Americans tells us how it's a "massive win" that Cubans are even more miserable that they were

I just realized when folks post this stock shit, fheure admitting knowing the argument, of which suggests, not confirms, they could be in agreement

 

[Koro_11]

In before a bunch of Americans tells us how it's a "massive win" that Cubans are even more miserable that they were

I don’t know many Americans, but I know a lot of Cubans, both inside and outside the country, and yeah pretty much all of them are all for toppling the regime, and they all understand things sometimes have to get worse before they get better.