right i got sidetracked
you say it was a moral issue, i say it's convenient that we have a moral issue with cuba out of all countries who just so happened to have had a socialist revolution, making them a clear potential proxy state/point of geopolitical leverage for the soviet union, and only 90 miles off the coast?
yea i don't dispute that if you listened to politicians at the time speak they'll talk about morality but i'm having a hard time buying that narrative when the historical pattern presents something that makes much more sense to me
but in any case my original point was that the united states holds the most leverage in any sort of embargo/sanction situation. not the fact that we derive our wealth from embargoing cuba. but the fact that if you go against american power those kinds of consequences can occur. so the UN is more like la costra nostra than anything else. europe has historically always been divided/at war after the roman empire fell.
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