• ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The US has several active embargos on countries like Cuba via sea, its completely right for other countries to resist America by utilizing the same tactics they do. Its like spies, sure we can all agree unaccounted agents of the state who infilitrate other govs is inherently a bad thing, but if we where to stop it from happening it would require the country with the most power to stop first; otherwise its a prisoners dilenma where you either lower yourself to there level and as such manage to stay ahead, or take the purist route and dont do it at all, and now you’re just being dominated.

    Comparing a Yemen blockade, a bombed and oppressed country from illegal cluster muntions dropped on them between 2016-now by the West to American blockades, which are repressive tools used by a rich country under no actual threat is disenginous and carries water for the fascist american regime.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t agree with the US doing it either. Freedom of travel by sea should be a basic human right.

      • Abolish Amerikkka@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        I disagree. There should not be freedom to transport aid to a genocidal entity to keep genociding people. Advocating for freedom for that in the umbrella of “human rights” is just plain disingenuous and irresponsible if not downright evil.

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      1 year ago

      You can very easily make a correct hypocrisy argument but it’s not just the USA going out of its way to bomb brown people. They were warned (threatened really) explicitly by for example the UN that if they kept shit up there’d be consequences and well they kept fucking around. Everybody wants safe maritime trade and they were raiding civilian vessels breaking international law. What’s happening is an obvious consequence of their behavior.

      But again you can easily make a correct hypocrisy argument for the USAs behavior cause well you know there’s kind of a genocide going on we still haven’t done jack shit about.