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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by SaintSeiya84 on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:08PM (#34375699)
what's your point supporting dictators? The people who dismiss the embargo knows nothing of history and they will repeat the same mistakes. EVERY cuban that manages to escape that prison island supports the embargo (except few loud lobbies of the cuban government).
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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by vkou on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:39PM (#34375976)
> what's your point supporting dictators?

When we support most dictators in the world, but embargo Cuba, it sounds less like a moral stance, and more like hypocrisy.

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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by SaintSeiya84 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:58AM (#34414064)
it stinks democrat here
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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by Symbiote on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:18PM (#34375792)
Can you explain why, for those of us 8000km away?
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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by luckylion on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:27PM (#34376757)
Probably for the same reason that Germans escaping the Worker's Paradise that was the German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany) weren't big fans of the communist dictatorship that tried to murder them for wanting to emigrate and was extremely corrupt, extremely authoritarian and often looked like they missed the point of 1984 and read it as an instruction manual.
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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by pkaye on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:50PM (#34376910)
The Cuban Americans in Florida are strongly opposed to opening up to Cuba. To get their support Republicans tend to be opposed to these changes.
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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by ClumsyPilot on Friday January 13, 2023 @08:41PM (#34376402)
> what's your point supporting dictators?

Where was the US embargo when Saudi dictatorship murdered and dismembered a journalist on foreign soil?

Sounds like you k ow nothing of history, US currently supports about 20 dictators around the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...

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Re:Cuba and the Geopolitics of Submarine Cables by mushbino on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:25PM (#34376741)
The US supports brutal dictators all around the world and has for decades. Cuba just didn't play nice with american business interests. Season 2 of the podcast Blowback covers our history with Cuba incredibly well.
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