[A video about Cuba, hosted on the PeerTube server CuddlyTube, from the news/video collective Belly Of The Beast]

The U.S. “terror list” is an extraterritorial measure that cuts Cuba off from international investment, credit and even tourists. As Professor William LeoGrande explains, the list exposes Washington’s double standards and weaponization of sanctions.

[In English, with Spanish subtitles]

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[+] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca -7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess I wasn't clear with my statement

I meant to suggest that Cuba was the cause of the JFK assassination from the point of view that all the clandestine projects they were working on for an assassination for Fidel Castro didn't work or were being prevented or discouraged by the US government. This set off a chain of events where they turned the projects they were directing to Cuba instead towards the US president. Basically the same operations and operators that were meant to be directed to Cuba were instead brought to the US and the president.

In a round about way ... Cuba was the cause or catalyst (or one of many causes or catalysts) for the JFK assassination.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cuba didn't cause those clandestine projects, though? The CIA caused them.

You're seemingly blaming Cuba for CIA plotting. It's not Cuba's fault that they foiled the CIA's plots, it's the CIA's fault for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro! Stopping the CIA doesn't make Cuba a sponsor of terror, it makes the CIA a terrorist organization.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm as left of center as most socially minded people .... I'm making a comment here and I keep messing it up

Cuba, the country or it's government did not directly cause the assassination of JFK. You can even see it in the reaction of Castro when he heard the news ... he immediately saw it as nothing but bad news for Cuba.

What I am trying to say is that American intelligence set up a whole system and people to either have paramilitary or assassination groups to be sent and set up in Cuba. But their plans were either shelved, delayed or dismissed leaving all those groups with nothing but a sense of abandonment, disillusionment and anger at being set aside. They were ripe for being redirected to a different operation directed at their own country.

What I'm saying is that Cuba had a role in that it only needed to exist ... to be there ... clandestine forces built a system to assassinate a leader in Cuba but when that didn't happen, they redirected the gun (so to speak) at their own leadership.

What I'm saying is that the JFK assassination would have been less likely to happen if no one had been going after Cuba in the first place.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Isn't this victim blaming?