In 2026, the pattern is unmistakable. War is not only waged with bombs and soldiers, but through its quieter sibling: sanctions. These encompass a broad range of coercive measures, including trade and investment restrictions, financial controls, banking blacklists, asset freezes, and visa and travel restrictions.

Deployed under the language of democracy, they are routinely weaponised against weaker states that fall outside the western orthodoxy of governance and market capitalism, with devastating consequences for societies that often pose no threat but refuse political subordination. Sanctions are not benevolent tools for guardians of human rights; they are a means of economic warfare, with civilians as collateral damage.

Sanctions are sold as “targeted” – aimed at elites, corrupt officials or illicit industries. In practice, they function as broad blocks on trade and finance that ripple through populations. Empirical research confirms that sanctions in Latin America and the Caribbean significantly reduce economic growth, worsen income inequality and amplify poverty, with financial and trade restrictions among the most damaging.

For more than four decades, governments from Washington to London and Brussels have wielded sanctions as instruments of pressure, presented as principled diplomacy. The lived reality across the Caribbean and Latin America is stark. In Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and beyond, sanctions have become mechanisms of sustained economic strangulation – deepening poverty, stalling development and entrenching dependency.

theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/28/sanctions-economic-warfare-civilians-collateral-damage-us-embargo-cuba-haiti-venezuela

kurapika tap in ^

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We're committing a genocide in Cuba at the moment, or are at least moving in that direction by virtue of cutting off their power supply. It's really not a time for a "nuanced critique" of Cuba lol. There's nothing defensible about the embargo and it is, by design, the overwhelming reason for Cuba's struggles. It's completely disgusting and feeling the need to say "but Cuba isn't perfect" is just American exceptionalism. The US is a country ran by some of the stupidest, most sexually warped people in history. It only contributes slop and war to the world. Cuba on its worst day makes the US look like Hell on Earth by comparison, unless you're rich.

if you learn about the special period in Cuba we'd all have more faith in the Cuban people and the revolution. They're incredibly resilient and resourceful.

Cuba won't collapse.

Jeez I wonder why 🤔

I listened to an interview with a Cuban in Cuba and they were saying they're pushed to their limit and that they've done everything they could to mitigate US infringement on their autonomy and that this administration has cracked down even farther. It did not sound like business as usual.

Not saying Cuba isn't being terribly affected by the blockade right now but they are the face of resistance in all of Latin America and I believe they'll continue to resist.

The US was confident Cuba would collapse during the special period and it didn't. As a American Latino I don't think most of us here in the states would have been able to survive that lol. Not just because our government would have abandoned us but also because most of us simply don't have the same level of education, aren't very resourceful and could care less about community.

its wild how one video can fill my heart with so much hatred

hope my children will see the collapse of america

regime change isn't the real risk, it is that the government will liberalize the economy China-style.

unfortunately Cuba is not China and any return to capitalism will transform Cuba into Haiti.

What do you think they can do to "open up" for the sake of survival, while avoiding total capitalist restoration and/or a counterrevolution?

they already do this, every "innovation" to Cuba's socialist system since the end of the Special Period is just various concessions to the market. this isnt a sustainable solution even if it's understandable. defeating the embargo will require risk taking and the deepening of socialism, starting with the continuation of their abandoned nuclear program.

Cuba opening wouldn’t change a thing as long as the government is in place

Relieving the embargo is the way out, and a less powerful dollar is the catalyst for that

Do you think there would be any benefit to Cuba opening up, purely based on survival?

I'm not a fan of them opening to be clear, but I'm just thinking of what they can do in the short-term to literally survive.

“What the imperialists cannot forgive is that we are here…”

-Fidel Castro, 1961, Funeral speech for victims of the CIA-backed bombing campaign before the bay of pigs.

I do not understand why america treats cuba like s*** at all but i also dont understand the iran s*** it jus seems like some sort of extension of deep state malice towards anyone who defies their goals

The fact that this happens in plain sight and no one cares is disgusting

Americans are the most selfish bigoted idiots on this planet

Basically. So they can say "see this is what happens under communism"

Evil c***s man

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daily reminder to never take left lib opinions srsly

Man..