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Re:The First Soviet in Ireland on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:00PM (#28463582)
There were two very different dynamics.

A Cuban wealthy elite became exiles in Miami, and a strong political force in their own right to put pressure on the government to keep the embargo in place. That coupled with the domino theory that the US foreign policy followed at the time they couldn't allow a successful post-colonial country exist peacefully outside of their sphere of influence. After the embargo had been in place for so long America only can lose by removing it unless they get some market access concessions from Cuba in return.

In Ireland's case the UK needed Ireland as a supply of livestock to feed their population so while the autarky hurt the Irish economy most people were poor farmers anyway so it didn't make a whole pile of difference while in the UK a rise in beef prices hurt their emerging middle class. Overall the amount of money involved was relatively small and since the Irish central bank was still linked to the Bank of England, Irish fiscal policy could still be tangentially controlled by UK monetary policy to keep trade flowing, without having to resort to physical force.

Re:The First Soviet in Ireland on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:14PM (#28462440)
Soviet, here, just means a "workers council" rather than the bureaucratic state the term is usually associated with
Re:The First Soviet in Ireland on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:09PM (#28462389)
It was the IRA in 1925 reaching out to the Soviets for monetary support to continue on an armed struggle
Re:The First Soviet in Ireland on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:09PM (#28460024)
There was no economic "blockade" until 1932, after the Irish government refused to pay land annuities to the British government and a rise of protectionist policies.

In reality the reason Ireland didn't face any sanctions immediately after "independence" was because it was mostly token independence where the economy was still heavily intertwined with Britain and little industrial development took place. This was maintained between 1923 and 1932 as the status quo benefitted the large ranchers and middlemen whose side won the civil war.

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Re:Palantir acquires Kimono on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:38PM (#11106227)
You can use portia[1]. You can try out a hosted version at scrapinghub[2] or you can host your own. It's a web based spider creator like kimonolabs but the spiders it creates are just scrapy spiders. If you need to do something that the UI can't handle it's not a problem, you can extend it with a little python.

[1] https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia [2] https://scrapinghub.com