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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

That's great news! Not only you invade a country to kidnap their head of state and try to impose your own ruling, but now you are also forcing them to dump their partners. I'm sure China is gonna be so happy for this...

I really hope Pooh doesn't do anything stupid, like retailating in any way... After all, it's not as if they were the biggest buyer of US debt in the world, right? They couldn't possibly retailate by selling all that debt at once? Oh gosh... I hope they don't do anything like that!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

They won't because Trump has made a deal with the devil so nobody will ever impose consequences on him for anything ever

[–] NaibofTabr 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] MBech@feddit.dk 6 points 5 days ago

Sure it is. The market where you're free to invade, annex and rob anyone with a smaller militar.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is what we get for normalizing the blatantly illegal embargo of Cuba. Now the US thinks it can say who can trade in the Caribbean.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So the U.S. government telling the U.S. population they can't do dealings with Cuba is like attacking and abducting a head of state and taking over their industry how exactly?

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So the U.S. government telling the U.S. population they can't do dealings with Cuba

That is not what the embargo on Cuba is, the embargo on Cuba is the US telling the world population that they can't deal with Cuba. The US embargo says not only that we won't trade with Cuba, we won't trade with anyone who trades with Cuba. The US uses extraterritorial means to force third parties to stop trade with Cuba.

Don't take my word for it take it from the UN general assembly, in the resolution GA/12650 in 2024:

Concerned about the continued promulgation and application by Member States of laws and regulations, such as that promulgated on 12 March 1996 known as “the Helms-Burton Act”, the extraterritorial effects of which affect the sovereignty of other States, the legitimate interests of entities or persons under their jurisdiction and the freedom of trade and navigation,

This resolution was passed with 187 in favour and 2 against ( US and Israel) and a resolution like this has been passed by nearly every UN session in the past couple decades . Everyone voted yes not because they necessarily want to trade with Cuba but because they don't want to set the precedent that the US can unilaterally blockade a country from the global economy. A precedent that is being exercised now to say Venezuela can't sell its own oil. They'll probably even cite the Cuba embargo laws as justification for this when/if they ever get dragged into court for this.

On paper it still says that, in practice Canada, Mexico, Brazil and near everyone else in the west trades with Cuba, and the U.S. hasn't stopped trade with them.

Should the U.S. say that, no. But by no means has the U.S. stopped trading with China, Spain etc.

https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/imports-by-country

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

This is a stick-up

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 3 points 5 days ago

I mean. Doesn’t that sad sack of shit coward pretty much personally own Venezuela now? Why is he demanding anything?