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United States as a Rogue state

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,632 ✭✭✭brickster69


    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.

    cuba.jpg

    The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. — Antonio Gramsci



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,987 ✭✭✭yagan


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭bored65


    For those looking good podcast on subject Battlelines discussed this today

    Aside; what sort of a pansy uses eye liner?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,936 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    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...🤔

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,103 ✭✭✭✭threeball


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,936 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


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

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,088 ✭✭✭✭briany


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭bored65


    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

    IMG_6589.jpeg

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭Ardillaun


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,196 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    This bridge was paid for, entirely, by Canada.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Bizarre language as US sees itself in competition with China for space real estate!

    https://www.fastcompany.com/91515752/nasas-jared-isaacman-the-united-states-will-never-again-give-up-the-moon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭rogber


    The sooner nature launches payback and wipes out humanity the better. We are a dismal species truly



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Infantino will keep his mouth shut about US policies preventing other countries fans attending World Cup.

    https://www.newarab.com/news/15000-visa-deposit-prices-algerian-fans-out-2026-world-cup



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Greenland was a security threat to the US and now Cuba is. The US has zero credibility in international affairs.

    Cuba poses a "national security threat" to the US and the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is "not high", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.

    His comments come just a day after the US charged Cuba's former president Raúl Castro with murder over the 1996 downing of two planes resulting the killing of US nationals.

    Rubio said Washington's preference was "a diplomatic solution" but warned that President Donald Trump had the right and obligation to protect his country against any threat.

    Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez accused Rubio of "lies" and said the island had never posed a threat to the US.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,437 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Fidel claimed responsibility for that incident.

    The US are liars.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭Asdfgh2020


    ….

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭Asdfgh2020


    Can anyone sunrise the threat that Cuba poses to ‘president’ trump his ‘tards’ …..and his cuntry ….?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,382 ✭✭✭Field east


    IMO, it’s utterly bizarre for Musk to be sending a ‘machine ‘ to Mars to set up a station/ sustainable environment for the human race to go there when we ‘run out of steam ‘ on earth. He is talking about using a nuclear bomb to convert the ice there into water, etc. utter madness

    Why has he not considered any one or a number of the following options to achieve the same objective and at a fraction of the cost and the possibility of much more certainty re the outcome ie

    (1) exploit the deserts to make them inhabitable - water being the main stumbling block

    (2) exploit the oceans - think floating gardens in Thailand as a model

    (3) Exploit Siberia, the Thundra, north and South Ice caps.

    (4) And outside of all of the above Are there not ways and means to adapt actions here on earth to make life for all more sustainable. We have the experience, science , etc, etc, etc to do it. All is needed is to will to do it

    Musk is a classical example of how ‘dangerous’ an individual with a lot of money/ power can be to the human race and life in general and aided and abetted by Mr Trump



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,615 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Thing about Cuba is; the embargo was only a tool to prevent Cuba's system in place to succeed, in other words to prove that communism was a fail. Left to their own devices, but enabled by transactional power; Cuba had pretty strong potential to thrive. Haiti is a more straightforward example of the US meddling in that region in order to keep a population from succeeding. The modern history of Haiti-US relations is actually more deleterious to Haitians than the post colonial period of the US; i.e; Alexander Hamilton's benevolent attitude toward Louverture's revolution and subsequent republic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,936 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Cuba used to get a lot of negativity but I will always remember how Cuba sent a massive team of 165 doctors to Sierra Leone about 10 years ago to deal with their Ebola virus outbreak. And they did a great job there. It's a poor country so making that effort was significant. Decent kind people.

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    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,615 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    I have two Cubans who worked doing renos at my house; two bathrooms, etc… They work for a company, and are very competitive trying to outdo what the other crews do, lol.


    Incredibly dedicated workers. Very precise. One of them, whose wife has been here 13 yrs he joined only three yrs ago via Mexico, the US etc… He told me how he used to work in construction in Cuba with only hand tools. He bought a house a month ago.

    Both super guys, and did more than I expected, always did what I wanted and more, which surprised me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Countries like Cuba, Palestine, and Iran all have strong people and huge potential to contribute to global development if other countries stopped urinating on them with sanctions and persecution.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    It may be a case of more insider trading, he may have been tipped off about a doomsday for Earth the way all norms are being revoked to follow a might is right national strategy!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭wildgreen




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