Submitted 2 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.rawstory.com/u-s-unveils-sweeping-sanctions-targeting-russia-s-wartime-economy/
The United States unveiled sweeping sanctions Friday against almost 400 individuals and companies tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine, expanding existing measures to curb Moscow over the invasion of its neighbor.
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Surely this will be the end for Russia and cause the Ukrainians to reoccupy the Donbass.
It will create more animosity towards Putin from his own people and weaken his position even further.
Those people must be so god damned gullible if they still think of Putin as anything other than a big weird pansy.
It should have happened they day they moved into Crimea.
neidu2@feddit.nl 2 months ago
At this stage one must wonder why the fuck Cuba is embargoed while russia isn’t.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Cuba embargo is entangled so deeply into US law that it is a total cluster fuck pain in the ass to undo. It’s not just one law, it’s an entire web.
We should be going through the pain in the ass to undo it, because the embargo really isn’t doing us any good and it’s keeping Cuba decades behind in development due to a 60 year old grudge. But communism or whatever.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The president has wide latitude around how Cuba is sanctioned and how those sanctions are enforced.
Obama made a number of big changes to open trade with Cuba, during his first term in office. Trump reversed them out. And Biden ignored the issue, rather than pick a fight with Cubanos in either party.
Cuba represents an alternative viable economic system that threatens the American hegemony in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Their ideology cannot be allowed to spread. Cubans either accept full privatization or it gets the Venezuela/Gaza/Libya treatment.
Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Because Cuba makes U.S aware that Latin America should not be the latter’s backyard…
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
it has the situation similar to removing porn censors is in japan, political suicide to whatever politician or party that suggests it. In the case of the cuban embargo, youd basically lose most cuban voters in Florida (thus giving Florida to the other political party for a long time period)