So much for our “allies.”
The annual UN resolution disapproving of the Cuba embargo came up. And the entire world, or nearly all of it, took a firm stand in favor of mandatory trade with a brutal Communist tyranny.
The UN General Assembly voted 187 – 2 in favor of its pro-Communist resolution urging the “necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba,”
The 2 were America and Israel. (Moldova, for some reason, abstained.)
Every other country, our allies in Europe, even seemingly Ukraine, voted against America.
It’s a truly disgraceful showing.
Making it likely even more disgraceful is that the Marshall Islands and Micronesia voted against America and since they tend to vote in lockstep with us, that suggests that the White House was covertly in favor of the UN resolution, but didn’t want to make a show of voting for it or even abstaining, as was the case with Obama, during an election year.
somehistory says
Gotta’ love the un. It’s so very beastly. And its fangs are showing red with blood.
bo/biden/harris….such power players on the world stage.
Feet of clay (Daniel 2:41-43)
rick says
The entire European community also? No South American country stood against Communist Cuba? Now it’s the US who is alone on a policy that this country is in agreement with. No one in the US except the Hamas lobby likes communist Cuba. And the world agrees with them? When are we going to withdraw our financial support is what I want to know. The UN is moving towards a slow and painful death and it should be moved out of the US to a more favorable place. Moscow or an African or certain Middle East nations would be fine. Those who work for their nation as UN emissaries will hate living NYC for Moscow or the Congo or Libya or Yemen. No Happy Hours there. And that is what they live for. Let’s send it back from where much of this anti-American crowd comes from.
rick says
Typo: People who work for their nation’s UN staff will hate LEAVING New York City. No “living” which they prefer. Those people hate the places where they come from compared to NY.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why don’t they just bus a bunch of migrants now squatting in the Roosevelt hotel to the UN building, and have them occupy it. Also flood whatever diplomatic quarters there are in New York, wherever all these foreign diplomats live. Of all people, they should be the ones most comfortable w/ all that diversity that Biden/Kamala have brought into this country over the last 3 years
drew webb says
Get the US ( and others ) out of the UN and then get the UN out of the US, preferably back to Shinar where it belongs
OLD GUY says
Yes the UN has become anti America and Israel, Time to remove it from American soil and stop supporting it financially.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I read that Argentina’s President Millei has fired his foreign minister for voting for this resolution at the UN
I’m a bit surprised that El Salvador voted the way it did
Wellington says
The modern world is becoming more pathetic by the year. The UN is an utter disgrace and, even worse, a regular apologist for evil, even an abettor of evil at times, and Israel remains sterling yet once again.
As for the Biden Administration, one knows or should know that this vote would have been 188 to 1 if a most critical election was not coming up just around the corner. If one cannot by now see what an appeaser of evil the Biden Administration has been, then that person is woefully inadequate one way or another.
It’s terrible that fools aplenty are now in charge of many Western European nations but, even worse, is that America is now led by malevolent people (examples being Mayorkas and, of course, Obama behind the scenes) with a front man, a nothing, a puppet, in charge. Dawning of a new dark age I fear if Cackling Kamala, an empty suit if ever there were one, becomes the next President of what remains of the greatest country on Earth.
Well, I already cast my vote for Trump (hope it’s counted). Right now, he’s looking as the last best hope of what pathetic mankind has left; he is the Aetius of our era (and hopefully with a better result than the original Aetius experienced). Ah yeah. it’s like the 5th century AD all over again. But I still hold out hope for a “better result.” Yes, I still hold out hope. Meanwhile, screw the UN; it has become not just feckless like the League of Nations but an actively malevolent and stupid organization. If Trump prevails, I would like to see him pull America out of the UN or at least threaten to do so if it doesn’t. After all, what good does the UN do compared to all the harm it does?
gravenimage says
+1
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wellington
Since you’re in Pennsylvania, your vote could be one of the deciders, if it ends up being close. I voted for Trump remotely 3 weeks ago in Virginia, and I sure hope that one’s an upset. Just from some of the news I’m seeing about her campaign pulling out of North Carolina to shore up Virginia shows that she’s on the defensive
Yeah, this time, I hope Trump pulls out of the UN, rather than give that job to someone in order to reward someone else (unlike the way he did the first time w/ Nikki Haley and Henry McMaster). And send them all out of New York
Wellington says
I have already voted for Trump, Infidel, here in Pennsylvania. I think Trump will win if a fair election but it’s a big “if.” And no more US in the UN would be great. The UN is now an organization that makes excuses for evil.
gravenimage says
Every Country Except Israel Voted Against America at the UN
So much for our “allies.”
The annual UN resolution disapproving of the Cuba embargo came up. And the entire world, or nearly all of it, took a firm stand in favor of mandatory trade with a brutal Communist tyranny.
…………………………………………..
Just appalling. And more proof that Israel is among our greatest allies, it not our greatest ally. We should treat this civilized nation as such.
Namer says
The US is the only country with an embargo on Cuba so why do they waste time on this BS. Cuba is a worthless country desipte all of the trade with other nations of the world.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely. Cuba would be no better off even if we resumed normal trade relations w/ them. And they’d be worse off if we gave them endless aid, like we did w/ Haiti
Namer says
Just like in Haiti all of the aid would be stollen by corrupt gov’t officials and lille if anything would get to the people.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Mike says
According to one video documentary, Cuba is in danger of becoming a “ghost country” with so many hundreds of thousands of people (especially young people, and educated people and professionals), who are leaving (or attempting to leave) the island every year.
Westman says
The USA, through leadership of NATO, is in a proxy war with Russia in the Ukraine conflict, a war that Ukraine is losing – a fact minimized and prevericated in hopes that it won’t impact the US Presidential Election.
Punishing Cuba is an invitation to Russia to expand its war machine there. It already has ship docking privileges and relationships with that government. The Ukraine war has improved the economic growth of Russia just as WW2 created industrial growth in the US.
One can expect that Russia, unlike the Soviet Union, will be able, from profits in BRICS and energy sales, to subsidize Cuba in return for establishing a base for quick response against the US and not back down as when a trade was made for missiles to be removed from both Cuba(USSR) and Turkey(US) in 1962. Of course there is a possibility for a future pullback for both the US(NATO) and Russia from each others borders but a more intelligent approach would involve bringing Cuba into trade with the US and preclude its increasing ties to Russia.
The Castros, Fidel and Raul, are dead. Communism can’t end for this small country while there is nothing of economic value to promote competition for a better future. There is no better example of the failure of equity over equal opportunity than Cuba. Holding Cuba in stasis with sanctions will ultimately endanger the US.
Maybe the US allies can, from a distance, see something that looks more like beating an errant “child” nation for 62 years in hopes that morale improves to the level of dropping communism, without a workable path to capitalism, is a failure.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think that these communist countries, ex clients of the Soviet Union, such as Cuba, North Korea as well as more recent converts to communism like Nicaragua, are more likely to be stooges of Beijing rather than Moscow for 2 major reasons:
⮞ Unlike Russia, China is still a communist country, and the CPC is now the world’s leading communist party, rather than the CPRF
⮞ China has a huge economy and can bankroll them, even if within the parameters of their Belt/Road empire. Russia’s economic size is at par w/ Italy’s
gravenimage says
Largely the case–but right now North Korea is sending Russia troos to kill Ukrainians.
JimJFox says
Good to read common sense, and altogether rare thing in today’s idiotic world
JimJFox says
Well said. It’s long past time that the embargo was ended since Cuba is on the point of total collapse and what will that achieve?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
What exactly do you mean by an “embargo”? Not having trading relations? The US cut off trading relations w/ Moscow 2 years ago: is Russia under an embargo? Any country is at liberty to not have trading relations w/ any other country, for any reason whatsoever. Reason that the US doesn’t have it w/ Cuba is that there are Cuban-Americans who have claims against Havana for stealing their property. Something that other countries don’t have
So like I asked, should the 50 odd muslim countries be forced to have full fledged trading relations w/ Israel?
gravenimage says
Why should the US be forced to trade with communist Cuba?
tgusa says
I guess all those friends DC thought they bought gave them the cold shoulder.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The US “embargo” on Cuba is improperly named. It’s not like there are US ships all around the island preventing Cuba from selling or receiving stuff from abroad. If anything, the US is probably one of the few countries that has no economic ties w/ Cuba. The latter has trade relations w/ most EU countries, especially Spain, but their economy is still a basketcase, thanks to communism. But essentially, what’s described as an “embargo” is simply the US asserting a sovereign right to not have any relations w/ any particular country, in this case, Cuba
Using this same terminology, all muslim countries (except maybe some of the -stans, as well as Emirates & Bahrein) have an “embargo” on Israel. Normally, one would say that they have a right to do it, since it’s just about their relations w/ Israel. But if the standard used in this vote is used, then its fair to then demand that all those countries – from Bangladesh to Gambia and from Turkey to Somalia – establish full scale trading relations w/ Israel, and all end their respective “embargoes”
Bottom line: all those countries have the right to boycott Israel, and similarly, the US has every right to boycott Cuba
Dr K says
And yet USA keeps funding the UN ?
America should pull all funding to those UN islamist cunts , see how smart and outspoken they are then !
Sharia Is Shit – Don’t Put Up With It !
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Given how we’ve been putting Ukraine’s interests (as well as that of several other countries) above our own, how did those countries even dare vote for this resolution? I can understand countries like Russia, China,… voting that way, as well as globalist EU countries. But countries who we have been helping in defiance of popular opinion – Ukraine – where did they get the chutzpah to dare tell us what our policy should be on Cuba, which doesn’t concern them at all?
England Invaded says
Now the UK has a Conservative afro leader who was born here through a scam in the early 1980s in order to gain citizenship.
Her and mother then left, returned to take advantage of that when it suited them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I doubt that the Tories will be the leading Right wing party in the UK, come 2029
England Invaded says
Hope not after the 14 years of betrayal. In the mean time, 5 years of the current traitors, what will the UK be like.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m rooting for Paul Golding & his Britain First party to emerge as a major player. Not Reform, since Farage refuses to do anything confrontational w/ islam
Adams says
Of course the US should trade with Cuba
. Why punish this tiny country and impoverish the inhabitants. What does the giant US have to fear from Cuba ? The US needs friends more than ever
Their constant worldwide bullying is leaving them vulnerable to concealed and overt hostility.
Back off America.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
US trading w/ Cuba won’t do a thing for the average Cuban citizen, who’ll still be a serf in his own country. All it will do is enrich & empower the regime, which normally should have imploded by now
I do agree that the US needs to stop bullying countries around the world to be LGBTQIA2S+ compliant, browbeating other countries to accept religious conversions and similar intrusive behavior
tgusa says
That is right Infidel. Cuba and the USA have a complicated relationship. Fidel and his communist henchmen were angry that the Cuban people were being exploited by outside interests. And so Fidel and Co. staged a revolution to free the Cuban people(?). One of those outside interests was the Mafia. But all in all outside forces good or bad were creating jobs for the Cuban people and making their lives better.
And then there was that little incident where Fidel decided it was a good idea to put USSR ballistic missiles pointed at America on the island. Never trust any SOB that would try that and that includes his bros too.
Mike 71 says
If the U.S. and Israel refuse to. trade with Cuba, that is their right. Certainly, Cuba, which is an impoverished Socialist sh-t-hole, can trade with everyone else, provided that they have the hard currency to pay for imports. Cuba is impoverished, not because the U.S. won’t trade with them, but because their government has eradicated any incentive which the individual Cuban may have to open a business and become an entrepreneur. Those who escape the prison island tend to prosper elsewhere in the free world. Those who don’t, suffer the consequences of being in a country where existence is solitary, brutish and short!
Rarely says
Cuba poses no threat to the US. Reopening trade and travel (tourism) would not hurt the US in any way. By blindly equating Socialism with military Communism exhibits blind ignorance.