10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by cmrdporcupine on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:54AM (#41025113)

You didn't read what I wrote above, you're just creating a strawman out of me. Go get your own thread to grouse on if that's what you're going to do.

I said exactly what you said: the regime is fucked and the economy will suck and things will be oppressive even without the sanctions.

But they use the sanctions to legitimize themselves. I've heard it directly from Cuban apologists... And in the meantime Cubans suffer.

Regime change via sanctions isn't going to work. 50 years of evidence can show you that. So what are they for?

Removing the sanctions removes one excuse among many that the dictatorship uses.

This isn't China. It's a tin-pot dictatorship on a tiny island right off the US, dependent on tourism.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by brigadier132 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:02AM (#41025182)

Where you and i disagree is that regime change is the sole goal of these sanctions. The purpose is to not help an enemy.

As for your argument around legitimacy, it does not matter. They will find an excuse to legitimize the government no matter what. See what venezuela did when we still had relations with their government.

All this talk of legitimacy actually just does not matter. Cuban people know their government sucks and if they havent realized it already they are too deep in the propaganda to ever be convinced

edit: Also out of curiosity, if this was a fascist dictatorship on the border would you advocate free trade?

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