General Assembly votes overwhelmingly against US Cuba embargo
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The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted by a large margin against the United States’ economic and trade embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1960. A total of 187 States voted for the resolution put forward each year against the embargo with only the US and Israel voting against and Ukraine abstaining.
  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Would the US destroy itself just to enforce this embargo?

    I’m not sure why you find that unlikely at this point…?

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      If we compare it to the trade war with China, the US only kept it up for a few weeks and backed down. There are material realities that force the US to bend, it actually can’t just do whatever it wants. So, if there was an international flotilla sent to Cuba to deliver much needed supplies, the US would retaliate at first and then back down when it realized the entire world was against it.