“Cuba is a concentration camp.”
I’m not sure what the embargo in Cuba is accomplishing. I know the Cubans live under an evil dictatorship and stole American assets. What I’m looking for is some coherent way to sort out why we trade with some evil dictatorships and not with others. I don’t see a sane pattern here. I’d like somebody to set forth a coherent policy on this.
Also, I don’t mind using “sticks” as a policy, but what if “carrots” may be more effective in influencing those countries toward greater freedom?
But to whom do you offer the “carrot”? The Castro family and their mafia don’t want Cuba to be free — and the Cuban people are so oppressed in ways that you can’t even conceive that they can’t respond to the “carrot” — they would need to be free in the first place in which case they wouldn’t need the “carrot” —
You can’t offer a “carrot” to donkey that muzzled, hog-tied and blindfolded. Or you can. but the donkey can’t choose the carrot.
No, Saudi Arabia is not a concentration camp, even for women — it is oppressive and has draconian laws — but the peop;le are not kept in a state of constant hunger with no resources — you don’t get arrested for normal human activity like trying to get food with money that you have worked for.