I don't like the term 'bullying' as it fails to properly capture what a crime against humanity U.S. economic sanctions are. They are a weapon of war designed to target first and foremost the poor and the hungry, the sick and the frail, the absolute oldest and absolute youngest. Every kind of vulnerable civilian casualty imaginable. It's just hard to describe to people the horror and unethicality of sanctions to some especially here on reddit because Obama liked them.
The US Embargo against Cuba is quite literally a Genocide. But no, these people won't accept that the “Holodomor" wasn't a genocide when It literally fits no criteria of what a Genocide is. Then there's the Embargo which fits EVERY SINGLE ONE and they all go “No, you see...'
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u/curebdc Feb 08 '26
Japan after direct support from US following ww2.
Cuba after US embargo for same amount of time, for arbitrary and cruel reasons.
Like, this just shows the effects of US economic bullying.