Lots of more popular support for ending the embargo on Cuba, and there’s even a UN vote where all countries aside from 5 voted to ending the embargo on Cuba, but there’s very little international support for ending the sanctions on North Korea. Does anyone know why this is? Surely if you want to end sanctions on Cuba, it’s only logical to want to end sanctions on North Korea too?

  • SSJ3Marx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I think because the DPRK occupies a more important strategic location re: Russia and China, it has invited a much more hard line stance from liberals than Cuba has. This is also part of the reason why China intervened in the Korean War and prevented an American victory in the first place - they didn’t want the US right on their border.

    Comparatively, Cuba is essentially just a culture war as far as the US government is concerned. It doesn’t occupy a strategic position, it doesn’t have large amounts of strategic resources, and the one thing that the US really wants from it - a naval base - it gets to have whether the Cuban government likes it or not. So the international movement that has risen in support of it has gone uncontested by America, and the island itself very nearly got its relations normalized at the whim of a single president.

    • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 days ago

      and the one thing that the US really wants from it - a naval base - it gets to have whether the Cuban government likes it or not.

      I’ve never understood how that can be. Went is this?

      • SSJ3Marx [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        31·
        9 days ago

        Guantanamo predates the Revolution. Cuba can’t kick the US out without starting a war they won’t win, and the US officially maintains the position that the base is paid for according to a treaty they had with the pre-revolutionary government.

        Historically, after the Spanish-American war, America founded the Republic of Cuba as a puppet state after kicking the Spanish out, and then they “agreed” to the treaty (along with other provisions like allowing the US the right to intervene in their government), which had no expiration date. So it’s pretty blatantly a part of Cuba that has been annexed by the American Empire for its own purposes.

        • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
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          8 days ago

          I went fishing and caught a . Wow. Leviathan. Wow.

          Thanks for the bait. This article is certainly food for thought, which has a watercress bite with a good bit of indigestion. Nourishing, though.