Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say

Its just performative.

Not even then really.

Thy don’t care. It’s just a sound bite to point fingers at dems.

So what you’re saying is that American citizens voted for him and he’s now affecting a whole other countries citizens?

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Cuba can't trade with any nation without the US punishing those nations and sometimes kidnapping their sovreign heads of state. American imperialism is still very much influencing Cuban trade (or complete lack of).

The blockade is cutting off all oil imports to the country, so it is working exactly as intended. If communism is weak and always fails why not let imports in and let it fail on its own? Or is communism super strong and scary? You have to pick one.

It’s so funny when Americans say that “communism doesn’t work” when their government waged a “war on communism” Well now there is a war on capitalism and its losing. I think capitalists are much more fantastical and are bootlickers by nature. Let me guess you work a wage job right? So you aren’t a capitalist, you serve capitalists, you serve the overlords of your society who are capitalist American leadership is now made up of pedophile kings and queens of trade. The American citizens love their chains even if everything that made the society great is falling apart. Once capitalism fails, it will, no one can stop it. Then you will live under Socialism. You cannot avoid it. Socialism is infinitely more popular with the working class once it is implemented. It’s why capitalists are so scared of socialists. Capitalists will find themselves bending the knee to the government and lawful regulation that they were free from while the “centrist” Democrats and Republicans were in power. Both parties are basically the same party to the Epstein Class because both parties served the Epstein list’s interest instead of the common person. You should reevaluate your worldview, because right now you support the pedophilic elite for no other reason other than they were kings and queens already when you were born.

If Cuba had you know, deposed their communist government years ago, they wouldn’t be in this situation right now.

Communism does not work. The embargo has royally backfired. They are not mutually exclusive.

> We stop Russian tankers because of the Ukraine war. And you think response would've been any different if it were chinese or saudi tanker coming to help, spoiling years of the US' effort? Lmao. You can make up any bullshit excuse. If it looks like a blockade, if it feels like a blockade, it is a blockade, buddy. And cuba is sure as hell is blockaded.

So in your view, the Cuban government has no say and will do nothing if a single hotel full of foreign influencers wants to keep the generator on while the whole country sits in darkness and patients die in hospitals. What an astoundingly stupid argument. Cuba is a centrally planned communist country lol. Whatever happens there is done with full government support.

I can tell by your other comments that despite your extreme confidence on the topic you are very uninformed so I’m sure you don’t know that the hotel in question is owned and operated by Spanish nationals. Cuba is not about to start seizing oil from these hotels because their economy pretty much runs on sugar exports and tourism (remember, this is a very small island nation with very few naturally occurring resources to sell on the global market). Sabotaging the tourism economy and torpedoing trade with one of the few nations they have some semblance of normal economic relations with would make the hunger crisis and energy crisis even worse in the long run.

Yes, and the US government thinks so as well. [You don't have to take the word of random Listnookors, but at least do some research. ](https://newrepublic.com/post/208175/trump-rubio-carveout-cruel-cuba-fuel-blockade-private-business)

[Here's new york times reporting on the change](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/americas/trump-cuba-oil-sales.html) [Here's reuters commenting on it](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-ramps-up-fuel-exports-cubas-private-sector-2026-03-25/)

Did you not read? The "5 star hotel" is one of the very few approved locations by the US government, specifically because it is privately owned. Because it is privately owned, it is allowed by the US government to purchase fuel for their private generators. Cuba isn't choosing to power the hotel over the hospital. The hotel had its own power generation, separate from the Cuban power grid.

Hard for your economic policies to work when your huge neighbour is blockading you for decades and threatening any country that trades with you.   I don't support Cuba or their government personally, but what the US has done to the people there is disgraceful and murderous. 

Your government is communist so we're gonna stop you from having any and all power leading to blackouts, dead children and mass hunger - oh we're doing this for you btw did we mention we're the good guys?

One of US demands is they pay whatever they nationalised WITH interest. That would put any government in Cuba in billions of dollars of debt.

Why would this even be Russia's problem to solve. It's completely caused by U.S blockade. The U.S could just stop would be the easiest solution of all.

Is the Burgerreich allowing oil to Cuba or are they still intercepting as other countries send it? 

If they send fuel the US will block it. Cuba has not attacked the US it has not done anything to deserve what amounts to collective punishment, the people of Cuba are suffering because the US government is deciding to blockade them, I wanna know the justification for it. Iran and Cuba are not the same even remotely, what has Cuba done other then resist American hegemony? Is that a crime now deserving of being blockaded?

That's something that the current regime would appreciate... They'll use it as an excuse to bully Cuba, but Trump and his buddies DGAF about Ukraine...

Bro it’s 2026, nobody cares. Cuba isn’t a threat to the US

This regime hosted the Taliban at Camp David and is in love with basically every other dictatorship in the world. Doesn't seem like it ought to be a deal breaker...

Us wanted Ukraine to join nato - so by your logic Russia is free to attack Ukraine?

The Cuban Missile Crisis actually vindicates engagement over pressure. It was resolved through negotiation — Kennedy secretly agreed to remove U.S. Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for Soviet withdrawal from Cuba. The lesson of 1962 isn’t “Cuba is permanently dangerous” — it’s that diplomacy works even with adversaries. On hosting Russia and China: the U.S. hosts Chinese and Russian diplomats, maintains embassies, and does $600 billion annually in trade with China. The U.S. also has military bases in 80 countries, including on Russia’s doorstep in Eastern Europe. “Hosting adversaries” is something every sovereign nation does. Cuba having Russian or Chinese advisors is barely distinguishable from the U.S. stationing troops in South Korea or Germany. On communism being “defeated” — tell that to Vietnam, which is still communist, still diplomatically normalized with the U.S. since 1995, and now a preferred manufacturing alternative to China. The U.S. made peace with Vietnamese communists within 20 years of losing 58,000 soldiers there. The Cuba policy is now older than the Vietnam War was when normalization happened. Why does Vietnam get pragmatism and Cuba gets a 60-year grudge? Cuba choosing communism wasn’t purely ideological stubbornness either — it was a direct response to U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship and United Fruit Company-style exploitation. The revolution had genuine popular support. You can think the outcome was wrong without pretending it happened in a vacuum. Demanding a sovereign nation “accept your victory” as a precondition for normal relations isn’t foreign policy — it’s unconditional surrender language. The U.S. doesn’t demand that of China, Vietnam, or Laos. Cuba’s size is the only reason that standard is applied here.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The easiest way to ease suffering is for the US to just f*** off. There is no reason for the US to be involved here. Cuba isn't a threat to anyone, but billionaires. Because the idea of a Cuba that's just chillin' is the worst thing they can imagine.