Does a country not survive without the United States? If Socialism is so great, it should support itself, but you and i know that it just wont work, because again, once the government runs out of other peoples money it will collapse, as it has always done.
So why didnt Venezuela just refine their own oil instead of trying to send it to such a small island? Oh yeah, because the Commies, chased out all the people who knew how to make that oil into usable fuel, and only the commie low intelligent (but i repeat myself) were left who didnt know how to do anything productive, just whine how fucked up their lives were.Such silly arguments. You have to be smarter than this because supposedly you were repairing multimillion-dollar weapons systems? Hard to believe in view of your shallow arguments. When Venezuela sent tankers to Cuba filled with petroleum, a few years ago, the ships were forced to stop and return to Venezuela by the US Navy. All cargo ships that cross the Panama canal have to declare to the Panamanian authorities that they're going to Cuba or Venezuela, that way they can be registered into a database that prevents them from docking at any American port for six months. If they fail to declare that their destination is Cuba or Venezuela, and are later tracked docking in those two countries, they can't use the canal anymore. All ships are tracked:
Ship & Container Tracking - VesselFinder
VesselFinder is a FREE AIS vessel tracking web site. VesselFinder displays real time ship positions and marine traffic detected by global AIS network.www.vesselfinder.com
That website is a free version of the tracker, that the US government has. That ship goes into the database and can't dock at any American port for half a year. Shipping companies don't want their ships essentially barred from delivering goods to the United States for six months, the largest market in the world. The US is the Empire, with 5% of the world's population and a quarter of its consumption.
Right now Venezuela has nine billion dollars in gold frozen in London by US authorities. When the Empire sanctions you, you're up the creek financially. When Obama lifted many of the sanctions from Cuba, their economy began to do much better. Trump reinstated the sanctions, with full restrictions. Biden isn't doing anything to change that. It's just disengenious of you to pretend that a small socialist Island nation, 90 miles from Florida, in the shadow of a capitalist empire, is not going to be effected when economically strangled. There's no fairness, no goodwill at all in your critique, it all stems from an irrational, rancorous, knee-jerk hatred that you have towards socialism.
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What a giant load of horseshit. The soviet union had a similar list of worthless promises. What did they get instead? Gulags and starvation.
So why didnt Venezuela just refine their own oil instead of trying to send it to such a small island? Oh yeah, because the Commies, chased out all the people who knew how to make that oil into usable fuel, and only the commie low intelligent (but i repeat myself) were left who didnt know how to do anything productive, just whine how fucked up their lives were.
Why Socialism Always Fails
Slightly more than 20 years, I wrote the article “Why Socialism Failed” and it appeared in 1995 in The Freeman, the flagship publication of the Foundation for Economic Education. I think it was the first...
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At one time before the peasants of Cuba were enslaved to their Communist Dictator, Cuba was like Las Vegas, where all the rich people went and spent their money and those who worked in Cuba did quite well. Then came Castro and the rest is history.779
No, they weren't sending it to Cuba because they can't refine it, they were sending oil to Cuba in exchange for Cuban products, like Sugar and other goods. Cuba and Venezuela should be allowed to choose what type of economic system they want for THEIR COUNTRY. The US wants to control Venezuelan oil, hence it sanctions Venezuela, punishing it for not bowing down and giving its precious resources to EXXON. If the US lifts the sanctions and stops freezing Venezuelan assets, that country will flourish. It doesn't do that, because it wants to give people like you the false impression that socialism doesn't work. The American ruling class is afraid that if they allow socialist countries to flourish in the Western hemisphere, it will encourage the American working class to establish socialism here in the US. So they impose sanctions in order to cripple and strangle every little socialist country on the American continent.
The history books say it was, moron. You're arguing with well established and well documented facts.
My brother and I were talking about the idiot republicans on this site fighting globalization. It’s like the indians who thought they could stop whites from invading America.
You should know better than to argue with an idiot.
