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        It was the 31st straight year that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the crippling U.S. blockade on the socialist nation.

        It doesn’t seem to be having much effect.

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          All nations should just start trading with cuba and sanction the US instead. They commit way more war crimes and crimes against humanity than cuba ever could

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            Excuse me but I got word of some horrible human rights abuses in Cuba, from a place called “Guantanamo Bay”.

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          Obama did a lot to normalize relationships, attempt to shift internal optics about the current Cuban government, now that Fidel is dead, and pave a way for a diplomatic and politically reasonable end to the embargo. But then the Cheeto came into power.

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        I don’t think it’s bad behavior any more than sanctions on bad world actors. Cuba knows how to approach the US, and the UN helps nothing.

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      Why not? It’s the only power orgs like the UN have in situations like these.

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        The UN exists to prevent another major war between great powers. Alienating such powers is counterproductive.

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            Sure. But we’re talking about an embargo. Everyone has the right to use embargoes, and they’re a time-honored method of non-violent opposition. Framing this as the US transgressing some boundary is hyperbole at best.

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              What is the point of this embargo? What is it trying to accomplish? What is worse about the Cuban government, than all the other countries the US doesn’t embargo?

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                  No it isn’t. Non-violent opposition to what? Everyone also has the right to violent opposition, but the context makes all the difference.

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                    Violence, by definition, is unjustified. But that is also beside my point. Which has to do with the UN, not the embargo.

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          So is letting such a power bully another country via pointless economic sanctions. Or do you not remember how Hitler got popular in Nazi Germany?