Cuba's Chokehold: Moscow Points Fingers, Media Points Away
📰 THE STORY: RT's report claims Moscow accuses the US of suffocating Cuba's economy, specifically through an escalated oil embargo, alleging Washington's intent to destabilize the island nation. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current 'escalated' oil embargo is merely the tip of an iceberg that began with the US embargo against Cuba in 1960. Following the Cuban
Revolution, President Eisenhower imposed the first trade restrictions in October 1960. By February 1962, President Kennedy expanded this into a full economic embargo. This systemic economic warfare, codified under the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, aims to prevent foreign investment in Cuba and punish any nation or company that trades with it, costing Cuba an estimated $144.4 billion over six decades,
as stated by Cuban authorities. Double Standard: Western media quick to decry 'economic coercion' by rivals like China, or 'sanctions busting' by Iran, remain largely silent on the explicit, decades-long US blockade designed to 'bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government,' as detailed in the notorious 1960 declassified State Department memo by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Lester D. Mallory. Imagine the outrage if Russia or China openly declared a policy to starve an enemy nation into submission. Follow the Money: While direct financial lobbying for the Cuba embargo is less transparent than for other geopolitical issues, the political beneficiaries are myriad. Anti-Castro Cuban-American political groups in Florida, historically vital swing voters, have consistently