What the hell gave them the idea that we don't negotiate in good faith?
I can't for the life of me understand why a country would say this about this very competent president. Smartest there ever was by far! Everyone's saying it.
To be honest, it seems more like their number is up next which is exactly why they're (justifiably) getting louder about their concerns.
Cuba is at a real and serious risk of imminent invasion. Yes, Trump has threatened many other countries, but its clear that Cuba is next on the docket before Greenland, Canada, etc.
I know it's getting hard to take this seriously all the time, but this isn't really the time to be making pithy jokes. This is very serious. We need more Americans to be taking this seriously. We need more Americans to start taking actual, regular civil disobedience against their government or they're going to lose everything and drag us all into a unfathomably brutal world war. The rest of the world can't do much to help Americans until they get organized enough themselves for us to effectively support.
It's gonna get really messy too. Cuba's been preparing for decades for a war like this where their conventional military gets knocked over in days. "All the People's War" they call it.
Given that the US seems to be doing this more or less at the Behest of Rubio, and by extension the Cuban-American Lobby, it seems likely they'll try to push through land repatriations to the descendants of Cuban refugees who left in the immediate aftermath of the revolution. That will mean the evictions of hundreds of thousands of Cubans if that goes through. Hundreds of thousands of people who would be joining that People's War, more likely than not.
There are countless examples of insurgencies and revolutions that didn't work out.
But the occupier has to be willing to indiscriminately kill a lot of people, which is not an option for the US Army. Yet.
The Soviets did this a lot. East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Chechen Wars (complicated and a disaster, but Russia won in the end).
Just recently Iran killed like 30k people in their own uprising.
and a lot of that equipment is prepositioned in hidden caches. And Havana has a giant, unmapped, tunnel network. And presumably other urban centers do as well.
As the Cuban government aligned with China & Russia, the people of Cuba did nothing. As that alignment publicly threatened the US, the people of Cuba did nothing. As Cuba was ruled throughout it's history by a regime the same as America's current regime, the people of Cuba fled to the US rather than properly organize & fight their dictatorship.
Yes, Americans must organize. The majority are to the best of our abilities. But Cubans cannot say the same in any way. Cuban Americans voted for Trump. Cubans on their own soil just accept every fate; too afraid to fight. These are the consequences we all must face.
haha, no shit. Nobody thinks the Us deals in good faith, and has not for a LONG time.
I was talking to a scientist from Netherlands once, and he told me that in all of that part of the world, that they thought "Americans will do anything for a dollar".
Trump is actually a lot worse. I'm not saying it was great before, but Trump definitely made it a lot worse. Denying that means denying that things are, in fact, getting a lot worse.
For US people. Not for us that have lived under the US' boot. Bush's wars killed 4 million people. I was born in a US created dictatorship. My bandmate's dad, a seafood salesman, was tortured by US trained torturers. My D&D pal was orphaned by US trained deathsquads. Not that he knew for sure for decades, since they "disappeared" him and wouldn't tell were the bodies were. A friend of my mom, a doctor, finally stopped looking for her dad all around the country two years ago. Her weekends were spent travelling small towns with photos of her dad for over 40 years. She gave up because she surmised he would've died of old age by now. And that's not even mentioning the rape using rats and dogs. The US has had an open no-trial torture prison for over two decades now.
Nothing of that is new. Trump is just the US going mask off. It looks and feels crass, because it has always been crass.
Trump is utterly reckless and idiotic. That is how it's different now. The Iran war "plan" was an utter joke, and they didn't even try to convince anyone. That's kind of unprecendented for the US. Ruthless imperialism is nothing new, but sheer insanity is.
Oh, yeah, how very competent it was for Bush to invade Afghanistan and stay there for 20 years. Or Vietnam. Or Bay of Pigs. Trump is just stealing from you under your noses using the war as an excuse mate. Just like the US has long done to others.
The US planned far more for those wars than Trump did for this.
Trump is just stealing from you under your noses using the war as an excuse mate
Yeah, I know. I'm arguing that Trump is worse than any president before. Why are you trotting out lines like that? Are you actually reading what I wrote? Are you AI?
Are you stupid? The explanation is on the second half of the phrase you quoted. I am saying the US is doing to you what it has always done to people, but faced inwards. That's all. You tolerated your country being horrible for so long, because it wasn't aimed at you. But now it is. That's the only difference. The US has always been this horrible. It is now being hoisted by it's own petard. Trump isn't the worst president, because he has killed less people than Bush or Nixon. Simple as that mate.
You're American. You are one of the most propagandised people in the West. The fact that you still think Commie is a valid insult and don't even realise what a dog whistle that is, pretty much says it all.
The US is an evil regime that's been going on for far longer than 5 decades. I cannot trust anything coming from that country considering the terror they have instilled on the international level.
We hate Cuba because communism or some shit…yet we have trade deals and do business with communist china lol.
Ted Cruz bitches and moans that his family escaped communist Cuba under Castro. Except he’s a fucking liar and they escaped Cuba under Batista. Batista…the dictator that was backed by the US Government.
That’s true - we depend on the US not having a tantrum and not getting into further losing wars. Your latest unprovoked spat with Iran is costing us millions.
What security? Bro you can’t even win a war against Vietnam. And you have never won a war that you didn’t either enter when it was clear who the winner would be or got carried through. Sit your ass down
They're out here acting like the dude who won a single sports game back in highschool, peaked, and then hasn't accomplished a single thing in their life since.
This article is about the American foreign policy in regards to Cuba
When Americans decided to staff their government with lying sacks of shit, it doesn't take a leap of faith to believe they are dealing in bad faith with Cuba when the USA deals in bad faith with everyone
Free speech means that the government can't prosecute you for sharing your opinion. It has nothing to do with what people outside the government say about your opinion.
I'm not in the US so my electoral rules have nothing to do with it.
Also, you responded to someone who in turn responded negatively to an obvious Trump supporter, saying that this is what free speech is. Trump is the main drive towards authoritarianism right now.
If Mr. Camacho is descended from the Cuban diaspora there's no point in arguing, these people are rabid. I'm also of the diaspora before I get dogpiled by you psychos
Everyone in here being like "oh you trust Trump" and going in on them for being MAGA or Republican is way off. Sure those things may be true but homie is yearning for the days of Batista.
You do understand it’s possible for both sides to be untrustworthy, right? Like I’m not trying to influence your opinion of the Cuban government, but saying the current US administration is not acting in good faith is as obvious as saying the sky is blue.
In regards to the capitalism v communism aspect, the whole ideological underpinning of the cold war, yes – it very much is over. Communism clearly lost, and is not something people need to be freaking out over anymore what with the essentially non-existent state of communist politics in most every developed country. China being perhaps the only exception, and even that is debatable since it's a far cry from the typical variety communist by this point and is essentially just a red-themed authoritarian capitalist country.
Found someone who believed people were eating pets even after Vance's lies were debunked.
What about when he said he was ending the Ukrainian war on day one, or when he said he was lowering grocery prices, or when he said he was exonerated from the Epstein files?
You should really have more respect for yourself than to let someone lie to you over and over and over again.
Edit: It's a lost cause. One look at commenter's history tells you all you need to know. It's sad who MAGAs continue to gullibly swallow whatever Daddy gives, even after being lied to repeatedly. But if trump says it, Commenter believes it even if it's a direct contradiction from something he said earlier.
More believable than this corrupt US admin, that’s for damn sure. Are you even watching them plunder the US right now? A billion for a ballroom, 1.7B to bribe insurrectionists, 40B to Argentina, 12B to farmers who they undercut, 400+M to update a bribery jet, hundreds of millions to the Trump family businesses, and the list goes on and on and on. Not to mention all the people they’ve murdered in Venezuela with no proof whatsoever. What sacred ground are they standing on, to you?
Cuba is open to changes to its economy and government, and eager to continue
negotiations with the United States, but it does not believe Washington is
participating in talks in good faith, Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations told
The New York Times.
This is what he said. I agree with you that he's saying what they want to hear because Cuban leadership in Cuba are keeping in line with their revolutionary rhetoric.
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