“Let’s cut them off from every benefit of globalism so that become more supportive of globalism” - Big Brain™.
this is the exact justification Bin Laden used for 9/11. Honestly America creates Putin and Bin Laden and wonders where they learned to think like this
What’s this quote doing lying here?
Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are:
- The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent).
- There is no effective political opposition.
- Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence.
- Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate.
- Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause.
- The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship.
If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
- Lester D. Mallory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
This is the rationale behind both the allies’ and axis’ campaign of terror bombings against each other throughout the war. The whole idea really is to spread mass suffering among the enemy population, to either demoralize them or straight up kill as many civilians as possible.
Sanctions is just liberal terror bombing. Mass starvation and social collapse to break the enemy’s (working class) will is the whole idea.
