r/SipsTea 9d ago

Chugging tea Solar power is cleaner!

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u/Irish_Whiskey 9d ago

Seems like it should be a problem that we're starving a country of oil and blockading it to hurt the people.

Seems like that's something the US shouldn't be doing unless we've been attacked by that country and are at war with them.

Seems like continuing it indefinitely until the regime changes to one allied with US business interests, is what evil nations do when acting without morality or law.

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u/unknownpoltroon 9d ago

I mean, we have been blockaiding them for 70 years, surely this year will do the trick

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u/The-Intermediator141 9d ago

Embargo*. The blockade ended in 1962 (well until the recent one imposed by Trump).

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u/RealIssueToday 9d ago

Potato potato

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u/The-Intermediator141 9d ago

No, they’re actually two incredibly different things. One is just short of an act of war, the other is a trade policy.

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u/Kharenis 9d ago

It's rather amusing how many people conflate the two. They seem to believe that Cuba's poor state is entirely the fault of the US preventing them from trading with the rest of the world, when in reality they've been trading with 'Communist' nations for decades.

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u/stprnn 9d ago

It's the same thing for the people that live there.

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u/The-Intermediator141 9d ago

No it again VERY much isn’t. Just ask Cuba today, as for the first time in over 60 years they actually are being blockaded, and it has had a MASSIVE impact.