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angrychair

(11,948 posts)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 03:12 AM 12 hrs ago

What the hell are we doing in Cuba!!

How the hell have I not heard about this until now. How the hell is this not the second most talked about thing in the country!! I am broken. Our country is blockading Cuba from receiving fuel oil. The country is barely running. Other countries are sending Cuba aid and begging the US to stop killing Cuba.

I am horrified. I'm am fucking horrified. We are being lied to my the news media. All of them. This is a genocide of a people. Our country is committing genocide in our name. What the fuck is going on!!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/blackouts-food-shortages-us-blockade-122432943.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHdt3kc6QfmNOsTzGl00PbJlty4Rz7OqZyrtTX-8Q7h_6WK0PhIK4JgEMnW1RbR8900zVnJQ6m6RvO9UuV0S2a7UG22dnzs62W4_pkVTEY_miCp5mgnGAyIgxKzMDviLvy82nQrmtmcR6nOCJWWLt3p4uxFZ8Uzkb9_V_LPBqtIV

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What the hell are we doing in Cuba!! (Original Post) angrychair 12 hrs ago OP
The US has had an economic blockade of Cuba markodochartaigh 12 hrs ago #1
Most probably learn about it when feebay deletes their Cuban related auctions. nt yaesu 11 hrs ago #4
I think venezuela was providing Cuba with oil. Trump cut it off when he grabbed their leader BlueWaveNeverEnd 11 hrs ago #8
THIS malaise 10 hrs ago #10
We have a fucking madman as president. mobeau69 12 hrs ago #2
A failed foreign policy that dates back to the 1950.s yaesu 11 hrs ago #3
Its rank stupidity Cosmocat 11 hrs ago #5
Wait until October. BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #6
Anything to distract COL Mustard 11 hrs ago #7
He's an evil psychopath womanofthehills 10 hrs ago #9
I have rights!!!! jfz9580m 10 hrs ago #11

markodochartaigh

(5,263 posts)
1. The US has had an economic blockade of Cuba
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 03:29 AM
12 hrs ago

For more than a half century. However I doubt if most of the US knows this. If you ask the average person on the street why Cuba struggles so, they will most likely say that it shows the failure of communism.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(13,554 posts)
8. I think venezuela was providing Cuba with oil. Trump cut it off when he grabbed their leader
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:28 AM
11 hrs ago

So things have changed. Much more dire in Cuba

yaesu

(9,155 posts)
3. A failed foreign policy that dates back to the 1950.s
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 03:49 AM
11 hrs ago

and was sloooooowly being rectified under Obama to a point where we could actually visit Cuba under restrictive conditions. Then the fascists tRumplicons reversed that and are now making it worse. Even before the blockade Cuba was in big trouble with their economy and failing power grid, especially after horrific hurricane damage. Also, strong anti Cuban resistance in Florida by Cuban refugees who love them tRumplican fascists and keep them in power.

BidenRocks

(2,998 posts)
6. Wait until October.
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:13 AM
11 hrs ago

We had good relations under Pres. Obama.
Flights and travel resumed, Castros' died and I was hopeful we would be normal.

Then chump! I believe one cause of Pearl Harbor was we cut Japans access to oil and pissed them off.

Cuba may not be Japan, but what will they do when totally desperate?

90 miles. Close to the swamp!

COL Mustard

(8,080 posts)
7. Anything to distract
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:24 AM
11 hrs ago

From the Epstein files, I suppose. There must be some really bad shit in there.

womanofthehills

(10,785 posts)
9. He's an evil psychopath
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:52 AM
10 hrs ago

Millions of poor in Cuba will have less food, gas and supplies - just like Venezuela. He’s probably the worst head of government in any country of the world. He cares for no one.

China is installing lots of solar parks & lots of speculation online that Trump wants the military to shoot them down like Israel is doing in Gaza with our blessings.

Medea Benjamin::
On our way to Holguin, Cuba with 2,500 pounds of lentils and with outrage at Trump’s barbaric attempt to starve the Cuban people.


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Max Blumenthal: 'The Venezuelan government has been kidnapped and is doing everything at the point of a gun. Trump is imposing a Gaza-style siege on Cuba.

What we're witnessing is a mafia in action.'


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This is happening at the same time the U.S. is economically terrorizing Cuba by blocking all oil from entering the country.


Claudia Sheinbaum and Mexico have sent more than 800 tons in aid to Cuba in defiance of Trump's sadistic orders. The aid includes milk, rice, beans, sardines, meat products, cookies, canned tuna, vegetable oil, and hygiene items


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jfz9580m

(16,721 posts)
11. I have rights!!!!
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 05:09 AM
10 hrs ago

Mark Cuban is an idiot..Throw him to the kraken..

That’s totally what their “ai” is like..

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