blockade is defined in the UN charter as an aggressive act of war. Any fallout from that would mean NATO has no duty to support the US… in that conflict or any conflict continuing from it.
it’s in the definition of Agression Resolution (Re. 3314) and is considered an illegal act, and a war crime if it halts import of food and medicine.
Retaliating with commensurate and proportional force against a blockade is legally allowed by art. 51 of the UN Charter.
Ha ha!
It’s funny because no one in a position of power will try and stop him and he will fucking kill us all for his vanity, or to escape narcissistic injury, or because he’s bored…
Wait… yeah, that’s not funny. Can someone please take away grampas nuclear weapons and put him in a home/jail?
It makes sense for Trump to go after Cuba. I’m not saying it’s right, just that it makes sense. When Cuba went communist, the American vacation market took a hit because it was one of the major vacation spots for rich Americans. Having a communist country in the U.S. backyard has been a thorn for the establishment forever. Trump sees it as a win-win as an ’80s real estate guy. He gets to punch a communist country and scoop up land deals from whoever he puts in charge.
It doesn’t matter that Cuba has been under embargo since it went communist, or that it pretty much hasn’t done anything aggressive to most of the world, including the U.S. All that matters is that it’s in a weak economic and military state, and Trump can grab an easy win for his base who think “communism bad.” And don’t get me wrong here, I’m not defending Cuba. I just don’t care. The biggest thing Cuba has done to the U.S. is give us a massive refugee influx.
and I don’t count the Cuban Missle Crisis as relevant to this
I’m so glad I listened to all the posters who said voting for the Democrats was voting for GENOCIDE. Boy we sure dodged a bullet there didn’t we!
I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.
The reality is many democratic voters were simply not motivated to vote for an administration that was more interested in supporting a genocide than dealing with the riding cost of living. You can argue that’s stupid or irrational but that won’t affect how voters actually vote. You might as well be yelling at a brick wall. It won’t change anything.
The fact is that Biden, Kamala, and other high level members of the Democratic Party knew that supporting a genocide might cost them the election. They did it anyways. They cared more about Israel’s ability to bomb children than they cared about protecting the American people from a second Trump term. The blame lies entirely with them.
I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.
Because then they’d have to confront the fact that there was whole list of popular (with everyone, not just the left) issues that the democrats where turning their noses up at, not just Kamala’s promise to keep Joe’s genocide going.
But it is funny how the anti-genocide folks are the ones they’re blaming the most for their defeat. No one is hissing at people who wanted single-payer health care for instance. Totally a real winning strategy and not just another smear job paid for by AIPAC.
Honestly, I think it comes down to a form of genocide apologia. I think most reasonable people might ask, “If Biden was willing to lie in order to help Israel carry out a genocide, why wouldn’t he or any of his associates lie in order to protect the corporate profits even if it meant American people would be murdered en masse?” At that point, voting for a democrat feels like choosing to get stabbed in the back so that you don’t get shot in the face. Sure, one might be better than the other but I don’t think anyone wants to be making that choice.
However, if you think your own life has a greater intrinsic value than the lives of people in Gaza you won’t see it the same way. Yeah maybe you would prefer if the Democrats didn’t help murder children abroad but that doesn’t mean they would do the same to you and your children.
Maybe it was the fact that Kamala was fake as hell, or maybe that the Democratic canvassers knocked on people’s doors (including mine) two dozen times before the election, even though I told them every. single. time. that I was voting for her.
Or hell, maybe it’s that she called Gen Z voters dumb after they clenched the 2022 midterms. Or maybe it’s the fact that they didn’t primary a candidate. They kept saying Biden was going to run again and then tried to use his popularity to force us to vote for her. I’m sorry, but that faded Obama magic doesn’t transfer from one candidate to another, especially when Biden was so-so at best with almost no charisma. I was already pissed that we got the rug pull with Bernie for Biden in 2020. To not even get a fucking primary for 2024 has left me beyond bitter.
Still, I voted for her and Fetterman. I will not vote for a candidate I don’t believe in again. At this point, I’m writing in a third-party name. If the establishment can’t learn, then let them burn. Don’t bother with whatever guilt trip of a response you might have. I’m sick of feckless leaders. I will always vote, but I won’t hold my nose for the establishment anymore. Fascism is here, and the ratcheting fuckers of the Democratic Party are useless. It’s just too bad. Trump is essentially burning the country to the ground, but the flames won’t hit the support beams until they can blame the Democrats, and, like always, it will work. Politics piss me off so much.
Yeah, my only advice is stay close to your family, friends, and community if you can. It’s pretty clear to me that Democratic Party officials have no real interest in fighting fascism so it really doesn’t make sense to put any hope in them. Luckily you don’t really have to.
Fascists by their own inflexible nature will eventually force people to fight back in meaningful ways. Any kind of bonds you create with other people can become the basis upon which organized resistance thrives, whatever that may look like. Even though it’s not really organizing, sometimes I think acts as simple as baking cookies for your neighbors does more to prepare for the fight against fascism than voting for a Democrat does. lol
talk to the dem leaders about their failure on that one. You would hope at least one of the parties would be against war crimes. Why werent the DNC? Rhetocial question: because they are irretrievably corrupt and cashed some AIPAC checks.
I think you’d best be mad at that corruption and not the voters put in an impossible spot because of it. Unless you are dishonest, a warmonger or zionist, in which case go on with your prattle.
It’s always a vote for genocide, whether D or R or refusing to vote, the genocide keeps genociding.
USA is world’s largest arms dealer (not hyperbole) regardless of who is in office. Vote for who you want, just for laughs. It doesn’t matter.
Nope, your “nothing matters everyone is the same” bullshit is wrong. There are different levels of harm and the far right is objectively more harmful to more people.
Bold of you to admit you’re a Trump voter
How about you finish your current war you sad old bag of hamburgers.
SIXTY YEARS of this Cuba crap, all without any benefit to us. Just out of spite
Why does everything he says make him sound like a predator? I know the answer but, seriously, I’m still asking.
I never thought I’d see the day when even childish Saturday morning cartoon villainy became this real.
This is his dementia talking, or more specifically, his frontotemporal dementia, a major symptom of which is that his brain no longer has efffective impulse control He lacks inhibition, much like you see in drunk people, and he’s just acting on whatever idiotic thought pops into his head or gets mentioned to him
Like turn it into Epstein island
Already has Guantanamo Bay.
Turning it into Trump Grand Golf Links Guantanamo.
Wasn’t that his plan for Gaza? One trick pony much?
Same but with cubanos instead of hummus.
Rapist gonna rape
“The honor of taking Cuba” sounds like an old man talking about a young girl he’s about to rape.
Well he does have experience
Grabbing countries by the pussy.
Epstein files
Spoken like a true rapist.
The USA is a terrorist country.
filled with a terrorist population
yeah, sure, a third of them aren’t terrorists
but the other third? either openly approve or don’t care enough to even vote against it lol. the bare minimum
The US has had centuries of the conservative white majority consistently trying to suppress the vote of minorities and the youth. Hundreds of thousands of voters were purged from the voter rolls shortly before the 2024 elections, with a majority of those purged being minorities. Sauce: https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
Many conservative states put fewer polling locations in poor communities. They block measures to make voting easier like same day registration and vote by mail.
Stop demonizing people that have been systematically disempowered. The Republicans in the Senate are about to shut down all other business in an attempt to strip married women of the right to vote.
This dude has to get got.
