General Assembly votes overwhelmingly against US Cuba embargo
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The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted by a large margin against the United States’ economic and trade embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1960. A total of 187 States voted for the resolution put forward each year against the embargo with only the US and Israel voting against and Ukraine abstaining.
  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    141·
    12 days ago

    UN isn’t a world government.

    Someone is gonna have to enforce it.

    Who is willing to send a navy? Anyone? Yea that’s what really matters. UN votes are just performative.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      54·
      12 days ago

      Would it really take a navy?

      If all these countries started sending joint floatillas to Cuba loaded with supplies, what would the US actually do? Blow them up? Seize them and arrest the crew?

      I kinda doubt it. Maybe if Mexico did it by themselves or something they’d try, but all its allies at the same time? Would the US destroy itself just to enforce this embargo?

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        12 days ago

        Would the US destroy itself just to enforce this embargo?

        I’m not sure why you find that unlikely at this point…?

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          44·
          12 days ago

          If we compare it to the trade war with China, the US only kept it up for a few weeks and backed down. There are material realities that force the US to bend, it actually can’t just do whatever it wants. So, if there was an international flotilla sent to Cuba to deliver much needed supplies, the US would retaliate at first and then back down when it realized the entire world was against it.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        Not under some other administration. But this administration I’m not so sure.