United States as a Rogue state

brickster69 · 13-02-2026 01:22PM

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Only 2 countries voted against ending the blockade on Cuba in 2024 at the UN. No second guess on which two they were, they will end up starving that place to death soon enough also.

yagan · 13-02-2026 02:09PM

The UN is not being taken seriously anymore, it's host has undermined it repeatedly with vetoes protecting Israel, not to mention its invasion of Iraq without a un mandate.

bored65 · 13-02-2026 02:48PM

For those looking good podcast on subject Battlelines discussed this today

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3k3j5R44rbwCxaNNM5KXba

Aside; what sort of a pansy uses eye liner?

Cluedo Monopoly · 13-02-2026 03:01PM

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Yeah I know. The countries with the most nukes are running the show now. We should create a better UN type institution after the next world war...🤔

threeball · 13-02-2026 04:00PM

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Not a chance, they didn't hold Trump to task for an insurrection in 2020 and that won't change. The Dems know theres plenty in their own closet so they keep the heads down and say damn all. Look at all the ammo they have now with Epstein and Trump being in the released files over 1,000,000 times, yet, crickets. Two cheeks of the same arse. No appetite for justice or accountability. Just keep the cheques coming. You see the same here on a smaller scale with FF and FG or other political parties. The most they ever want is a resignation because the same fate is only around the corner for themselves.

America is a joke of a country. Average joe can get fired out his job because the boss is having a bad day, but the biggest job in the country and you couldn't root him out with a stick.

wildgreen · 13-02-2026 10:59PM

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It is gone time for independent Central and South American countries to defend Cuba against US economic terrorism. Canada, China, and Russia also need to stand up otherwise US colonialism will spread like a cancer through Central and South America. Europe is irrelevant because it is just a village.

Cluedo Monopoly · 13-02-2026 11:37PM

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The US have been abusing Central and South America for several decades. They ain't going to be stopped now.

briany · 13-02-2026 11:38PM

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We've seen this before in history. The League of Nations was designed to the same kind of purpose as the UN, but it came to be seen as feckless and a bit of a talking shop with no real muscle to it. Then WW2 happened.

The problem is that these organisations are created to reflect the order of the world at the time they're made, but they're also intended to preserve that order. Problem is that the power structure of the world was never truly coupled to the League of Nations or the UN and will/has change(d) independent of its wishes. And this is how wars can happen. There's no formal arbitration process to accept this new reality. Emergent powers must fight to enforce their own order on the world and established powers must fight against it.

bored65 · 18-02-2026 03:51PM

For all of the moaning Vance, Heghseth etc do about European NATO allies

Without them they would not be able to do much as sneeze in Middle East or Africa without expensive and complicated logistics from mainland US

Instead they can use the network of bases in Europe, their Middle Eastern allies told em to F off in meantime and no you can’t use bases in our countries for your adventures

^ all of the above would cost exponentially more anytime they need to bomb Iran etc

wildgreen · 18-02-2026 04:28PM

The US is targeting the assistance provided by Cuban medical staff abroad. The US wants to stop the flow of income from these missions. What a scum country. I suppose the patients receiving the medical assistance can … die sooner rather than later.

The US has deemed Cuba’s foreign medical missions a form of “forced labour” and human trafficking, without any evidence, and has a goal of restricting the Cuban government’s access to its largest source of foreign income.

US efforts to curb Cuba’s medical missions are not new. Just last year, Washington imposed visa restrictions aimed at discouraging foreign governments from entering into medical cooperation agreements with Cuba.

Ardillaun · 19-02-2026 03:46AM

I’m not sure this is the tone US high tech should be setting about AI. As a former politician, Mr. Osborne should at least know just how unpopular the US government is around the world. The notion that it is far more trustworthy than China has been seriously eroded.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/18/countries-do-not-embrace-ai-left-behind-george-osborne

wildgreen · 20-02-2026 08:28PM

If you are the US then you can decide who the Prime Minister of a foreign country will be. The US is getting scared of its own shadows.

The United States, through the United States Embassy in Baghdad, has reportedly given Shiite political leaders within the Coordination Framework a 48-hour deadline to select a replacement candidate for prime minister instead of Nouri al‑Maliki, according to a source cited Friday.

wildgreen · 25-02-2026 09:23PM

Canada and Mexico stand up to the Rogue State while China and Russia dither.

On Wednesday, Canada became the latest country in the region to pledge food aid to Cuba, worth $8 million Canadian dollars (US$6.7m).

“As the people of Cuba face significant hardship, Canada stands in solidarity and is providing targeted assistance to help address urgent needs,” Foreign Minister Anita Anand said in a statement, adding the aid would be delivered via the World Food Programme and UNICEF.

Anand told reporters she did not discuss the decision to provide the aid with the US.

A second humanitarian aid deployment from Mexico also arrived in Cuba on Wednesday.

wildgreen · 25-02-2026 11:25PM

Not known yet who they were but possibly regime-change mercenaries from Florida?

Four people who entered Cuban waters on a US-registered speedboat have been shot dead by border guards, Cuba's government said.

In a statement, Cuba's interior ministry said that the speedboat's passengers opened fire on a coast guard vessel that approached them.

Six additional passengers were wounded in the incident, which took place near an island on Cuba's northern coast.

The identities of those on board the vessel or what it was doing in the area are unclear, with the Cuban government saying an investigation has been launched to "clarify" the event.

wildgreen · 20-03-2026 09:32PM

Russia and China should step up and send destroyers to accompany oil tankers Cuba bound. They should also bring a motion to the UNSC to approve UN military action against the US.

Two Russian tankers carrying hundreds of thousands of barrels-worth of oil are heading to Cuba in defiance of Washington's energy blockade against the island nation.

According to multiple reports and tanker-tracking data, the Sea Horse and the Anatoly Kolodkin are heading to Cuba with 930,000 barrels of gas and oil combined.