The Trump Administration has made clear that their anger toward
Venezuela’s government also extends to Cuba, and this was shown again
today with the administration imposing new restrictions to prevent Americans ever setting foot on Cuban soil.
The new restrictions target educational trips as well as cruise ships,
forbidden all cruises from stopping in Cuba for recreational purposes.
There was no grace period for ships already en route.
This created immediate chaos among cruise operators, and a number of
scheduled cruises that were to stop in Cuba as part of their voyages
have uncertain futures, with Carnival Corp saying they won’t be going to Cuba, but they will be going someplace in the future.
Some reports claimed the move was meant to punish Cuba for its ties to
Venezuela, though others suggested that the administration had an
interest in punishing companies that had resumed operations in travel to
Cuba during the Obama era, when legal restrictions were lifted.
This guy really likes embargoes, tariffs, travel bans, and using Twitter.
Don’t forget golf, cheeseburgers and Israel.
Chaos and Trump, a recurring theme. MAGA.
As if America needs more enemies. People in cruises are well to do and often well connected crowd, and their opinion matters. Thisvkind of petty vindictiveness wil only encourage mistrust and scepticism about anything American. Sanctions, tariffs and threatening language have become our face to the world. Trump may do more then he thinks in changing opinion around the world on the nature of American Empire. But I think he is sure that workd lives winners, and in the view of neocon elite, this is what the world needs. A firm hand, no mercy for dithering allies, no mercy for weak nations that dare contradict, and “nessage” to all would be challengers that America is back!
Problem is, the people he is surrounded with are feeding him a false picture of the world affairs, and its changing landscape. They are doing it precisely for one reason — ghey believe that no sacrifice is too big for remaining unquestioning number one dictator of the world.
This reminds me of anither Empire not aware of its internal and external weaknesses and hurried to attack a small Serbia, weakened by wars with Ottomans. What could possibly go wrong?
Like living on a financial bubble, internally divided, losing a trade war, falling behind in technology on all fronts, and insulting whoever we can lay our hands on.
And no matter what he dies, neocons do not want him. He us guilty of the biggest sin — telling American people of stupid wars, regime changes, interventions. He gave the flag-wavjng country their first doubt about the nature of the empire. This cannot be taken back into the bottle.
And while his braggadocio may still stir up weakminded, most of his base gets it — Trump is captive of the oligarchy, and is not flag waving asking for war.
I can’t wait for the day when every nation in the world starts to sanction the US
More winning….