I wanted to write more, a large body in this post explaining more about the whole situation; but quite frankly I’m just stunned.
I’ve grown up knowing and thinking about Cuba very little. I’m aware it exists, I’ve of course heard of Cuban Cigars. I’ve also heard the name Fidel Castro, but knew very very litte about him or his history. Kinda just vague notions that he was a ‘bad guy’, mostly perpetrated by US media. I just never really looked deeper; foreign politics/policy/history has always been - I don’t want to say disinteresting, but low priority. I tend keep my mind on closer to home issues, like paying my own bills. Not something I’m exactly proud of, but that’s the truth. If you don’t make a point of looking for it; Cuba doesn’t exactly show up in Canadas media very often (tbh I’ve heard more about it with the Trump admin bombing their boats, than any other time in my life).
I’ve learned more about Cuba in this video than I have my entire adult life. (I’m 30)
To learn the native Cubans were literally exterminated, replaced with African slaves, then the dictatorship that ruled over them was overthrown by those slaves to become a thriving population with a universal medical care and reasearch system that quite literally outpaces all of the rest of the world; is frankly incredible.
Now they’re being suffocated and starved into submission, partly because America can’t handle a shinning example of socialism proving it can work, right on Americas doorstep, and partly so America can have its plantations and slave population back…
I can’t decide if I’m surprised, or if I’m just further reinforcing what I already knew; America is an evil like no other. I can’t even pretend this is just Trump and his cronies influence, this begun long before he was even in politics.
I had to share this video. It’s the least I can do.
That was a really good honest watch. I’m sure plenty of people would feel the same going on such a selfless journey to assist people trying to survive in such unfortunate circumstances manufactured by the US.
I really do feel bad for Cubans, it’s not like they even have the strength to overthrow they’re gov even if they wanted to, I’d consider this a genocide perpetrated by the US if it weren’t for the fact that nobody else seems to be helping them, this man is braver then many of us.
The way you phrased that makes it so easy to misinterpret. You could easily read that as
“Cubans wouldn’t be able to overthrow their government because their government has made them too weak, and while America’s actions seem genocidal Trump is the only one willing to help them”.
Also, Mexico was sending fuel to them at first before Trump pressured them not to. Mexico itself does seems pretty supportive of these aid deliveries.
Cuba might not be the freest country in the world, but the majority of their suffering is inflicted by the US though economic means.
He did a thing
I wonder if the US will ever start to properly reckon with the fact that they are also the baddies in this world. They are not the only baddies, by far, but they are intentionally not helping either, they are not innocent or altrustic, and they’re a large part of why so many other groups are baddies too. I think the myth of America fighting for democracy and freedom in the world, or the idea that they ever have been, is starting to fall apart. Stuff that used to be laughed off as “bringing democracy by force” and “fighting wars for oil” and “the war on drugs” and “the war on crime” and “the war on terrorism” is feeling a lot less like a playful joke and starting to hit with a much darker and horrifying reality of what was really being accomplished and what was really intended. I think people can see themselves and the clear reflection of America doing the same things Russia and Israel are doing recently, and it does not look good. Maybe it’s just me. But I hope it’s other people too.
as an American i can’t see how. my fellow countymen are idiots and are absolutely satisfied with their stupidity. and if and when they have to reckon with their stupidity, they blame anything but themselves. trash outside and in. i hate it here.
I wish we didn’t tighten up our boarder here in Canada but we had such an influx we had to shut the gate before everything was overwhelmed, I have friends from the USA that want to leave too :(
I’m close enough to MX and speak Spanish it’ll be where I exile to
hope so, last thing you want is for them to vindictivly sent you across the ocean, i wouldn’t put it past them
I wonder if the US will ever start to properly reckon with the fact that they are also the baddies in this world
Their deeply ingrained American Exceptionalism won’t allow that to happen.
It would take a couple of generations of good quality education to make a dent in a century (or more) of conditioning that has convinced them that their country is the bestest there ever was, and that they can do no wrong.
100% this. And because the “exceptionalism” is predicated on white supremacy it’s why the gov goes after people of color constantly.
To be fair I don’t see my government helping but that might be out of fear of retaliation. It’s Sad, I’d I might even call it a genocide through starvation and forced isolation thanks to the USA but I don’t know enough about the specifics to know one way or the other.
Fuck America, let them retaliate.
We should not be standing by and just watching a country suffocate and starve to death. If just one or two large countries were to support Cuba and eachother, the US loses it’s grip.
What’s America going to do, isolate itself from the world? America needs foreign trade too, it can’t survive on it’s own. Much of the world is already moving away from American influence/dependence anyway.
