cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/26166
Washington has cut off oil and fuel ships to Cuba, claiming the small Caribbean nation poses a ‘national security threat’ to the US
The US is “strangling” Cuba, Russia warned on 9 February, stressing that the Kremlin is looking for ways to assist the island nation to withstand Washington’s intensified blockade.
“The situation in Cuba is indeed critical … We are aware of this, and we maintain close contact with our Cuban friends through diplomatic and other channels,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
He added that “the stranglehold imposed by the United States is already causing a lot of difficulties for Cuba,” noting that Moscow and Havana are discussing “possible ways to resolve these problems or at least provide all possible assistance.”
After abducting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and taking control of that country’s oil production, US President Donald Trump and his advisors have turned to fomenting regime change in Cuba.
“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO!” Trump wrote on his social media platform on 11 January, adding, “I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”
On 30 January, the US imposed sanctions and potential tariffs on countries providing fuel to Cuba, labeling the island a “national security threat” to the US.
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pretty sure every real country on the planet has indicated many times that what the US has done and continues to do to Cuba is an indefensible crime against humanity.
if i were a near-peer geopolitical rival, it would be a no-brainer to escort in humanitarian aid and bait the US into doing something extremely shitty to increase tensions among the fraying atlanticist coalition.
It is not so inevitable that the Atlanticist coalition would be weakened by an international incident around Cuba. This is the same coalition that gleefully supported the US in its invasion of Iraq and many other deeply immoral excursions. Furthermore a UN vote in support of Cuba is easy, even free PR because they know the US will veto. I wouldn’t take it as a clear indicator of material support in a crisis scenario. It is possible that such a situation would galvanize support around the “besieged” United States.
its not that an inciting incident would weaken the resolve of the Atlanticist coalition of leaders. they will go to their graves or gallows defending capital.
rather it would expose more of their sniveling, unpopular cruelty to the working class they pretend to represent in their little “democracies”.
true power is always resting with the working class of each nation, but it is corralled and harnessed as it sleeps. each inciting incident threatens to disturb the slumber.
The US would love the chance to show off their naval power in their own back yard though
its a paper tiger. it has not faced a peer in a generation and frequently loses its own war games against regional powers.
it is a bully that sinks or steals commercial craft and operates entirely on the assumptions that no one will ever call any bluff, every other party will always back down from provocation, and none of its victims will ever organize any retaliation.
Just because the yanks are less and less able to project power abroad, doesn’t mean China can start waving their dicks 90 miles off the US coast
Yeah China is pretty well defended in its own area, but it does not have the power projection that would be necessary to win a naval battle in Latin America. In attempting to do so, they’d also be severely weakening that defensive capacity back home, too. China is pragmatic, to a fault, you could say, but they do not want to engage in open warfare with anyone really, much less the US in its own hemisphere.
And the thing with the geography of the Florida straights is that they can’t even do a humanitarian escort without threatening US territory in the process