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US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo
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Does anyone know what the embargo really accomplishes? Why is there so consistent opposition in the USA? Does Cuba actually represent any threat?
TLDR: Cuban Americans who fled Cuba tend to support sanctions on the government they fled. And no other group really is fighting to remove the embargo.
The embargo acts as an example to everyone else not to fuck with USA oil. Because if you do, they'll be super petty and make you miserable until the end of time.
The embargo is old-school US punishment. It fucks over their ability to do business in the US, which means no banking, data centers, and much more. This is incredibly inconvenient for Cuba but hasn't meant as much as other LA countries have developed.
This is, of course, initially in response to the Cuban govt nationalizing the primarily US-owned oil industry.
Florida was a swing state, Florida is full of Cubans who hate the Cuban government, Cuba is run by dirty socialists anyways, also they almost blew us up that one time that the boomers are probably all still traumatized from.
That last one isn't a joke, THE SOVIETS were the ones who had to put a stop to Castro calling the launch, and him making them do that is why basically no world government has since cared enough about Cuba to do more about it than calling one of these votes the US will ignore anyways for reasons cited above. Similar to how nobody gave two shits when Iran's embassy in Afghanistan was the target of a terrorist attack well before the US deployed.
But yeah, the funny part is that DeSantis might have actually saved Cuban American relations by driving Florida so far to the right it banned Democrats from wasting time on any strategic thinking on how to appease the Cubans in Florida. One of those lesser "once the boomers die" possibilities with the upcoming super progressive generation in the party.