President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order broadening U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government, two White House officials told Reuters. He seeks to put more pressure on Havana, following his administration’s challenge to Venezuela’s leadership. The new sanctions target people, entities and affiliates supporting Cuba’s security apparatus, or those complicit in corruption or serious human rights violations, officials said. Government agents, officials or supporters are also included. It was not immediately clear which specific people or entities were impacted by the sanctions under the order, which Reuters first reported. The order authorizes secondary sanctions for conducting or facilitating transactions with those targeted under the order, officials said.

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    I’m not seeing the logic in the argument that more harm in the future is okay because of some harm now. If you were against harm then you would want less of it, now and in the future.

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      You are babbling and not making any sense whatsoever, I have no way to put a fitting context onto whatever those words are supposed to mean?
      What is the more harm? more harm than what? What are the harms in the now and in the future?

      All we know for sure is that USA has brought a lot of harm to Cuba,and Cuba has brought zero harm to USA.

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          Yes because Cuba is such a big powerful country, and USA is very scared of them. Therefore USA has tried to kill Cuban leaders multiple times, manipulated global markets to immense harm to the Cuban economy, sanctioned Cuba for 60 years, and is now blockading oil to Cuba so even hospitals can’t function, and people die.

          And what is the crime Cuba did? Having free healthcare?

          You may laugh, that’s OK, it only shows what kind of person you are.

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          If it’s so funny then you can easily provide us with a list of terrible harm Cuba has done to the US since Trump’s been in office. I’ll even give you back to his first presidency.

          How has Cuba harmed the US since 2017? Be specific.

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            They continue to be militarily allied with the same sponsors of Venezuela and Iran, ironically those sponsors are the same countries that helped get Trump reelected, and once in history Cuba was used to field nuclear weapons aimed at the USA. Of course, that’s got absolutely nothing to do with why Trump is bullying them. It’s because they keep talking shit over the social media loudspeakers in order to divert US Military attention away from Iran at the cost of cuban lives and livelihoods.

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                You heard it here, folks, the cold war is a conspiracy. China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea: all democracies. /sarcasm

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                    If you think that’s a wild take then you will be surprised to find a user replied to my comment before you certifying that they 100% actually believe that. It’s called a “Tankie”, supporters of autocratic regimes in Russia and China, and by extension their military allies Indonesia, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. They have a huge presence on the fediverse because the developers of the Lemmy platform are Tankies themselves, which is why many users migrated to Piefed instances.

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              They’re allies of people you don’t like? How does that harm the US. That’s what I asked.

              Then you said none of the first part of your comment matters because the only reason is that they’re talking shit. That’s the reason for killing them? They’re too mouthy for you? You’re just as petty and small minded as Trump if that’s the justification for defending him.

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                ALL PRAISE THE NUCLEAR FIRE! I WAS A FOOL, I TURNED AWAY AND CLOSED MY EYES, BUT THE FIRES SHINE THROUGH! EMBRACE THE LIGHT, BROTHERS AND SISTERS! /Sarcasm