Immanuel Ness
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@ImmanuelNess
Political Economist - Dialectics of Chinese Labor (Brill/Iskra 2026), Migration as Economic Imperialism Professor, Political Science, CUNY, U Johannesburg.
El presidente de EE.UU eleva sus amenazas de agresión militar contra #Cuba a una escala peligrosa y sin precedentes. La comunidad internacional ha de tomar nota y, junto al pueblo de EE.UU, determinar si se permitirá un acto criminal tan drástico para satisfacer los intereses de un grupo pequeño pero adinerado e influyente, con ansias de revancha y dominación. Ningún agresor, por poderoso que sea, encontrará rendición en Cuba. Tropezará con un pueblo decidido a defender la soberanía y la independencia en cada palmo del territorio nacional. #LaPatriaSeDefiende
The Starvation Doctrine: The imperial mind operates under several simple and brutal assumptions. For example, they believe that if the West makes life unbearable for ordinary people in a targeted nation, they will eventually turn against their own government. Starve them enough and they will beg for regime change. This is the foundational logic behind every sanctions regime ever devised by Washington. It is also a logic that has failed repeatedly across multiple continents for decades. The architects of American foreign policy never learn. They keep returning to the same blunt instrument, expecting a different result. The reason is not ignorance but cynicism. If they never work, then sanctions can't really be about changing behaviour. They are about the collective punishment of a people who refuse to surrender their sovereignty. The Syrian Exception Western commentators spent years presenting the war in Syria as a spontaneous uprising against a tyrant. This narrative was always fraudulent. The chaos that engulfed Syria was not born from popular discontent. It was nurtured by the deliberate destruction of the Syrian state's capacity to function. Before the war, Syria was already under severe US and European sanctions. These measures were designed to cripple the economy and degrade the government's ability to provide services. When a state cannot deliver fuel, electricity or bread, people naturally become desperate. That desperation was the point. Western intelligence agencies then flooded the country with billions of dollars. This cash flowed directly into the hands of armed jihadists, including ISIS. To a starving population, these well-funded fighters presented themselves as a viable alternative. They had food, weapons and money while the state had been reduced to nothing. The Syrian people knew exactly what was happening. They understood the game being played. But it is difficult to argue ideology with a hungry stomach. The sanctions achieved their true purpose, which was never democratic reform but the dismantling of a sovereign government. Crucially, this strategy only achieved traction because parts of Syria were already occupied by Western forces and their proxies. There was a physical foothold on the ground. Even then, the predicted mass uprising against Damascus never materialised. Only years after the failed initial uprising were the US and Israel able to impose their ISIS proxy on the Syrian people. Now Syria is ruled by literal ISIS head-choppers and we are supposed to see that as an improvement. Don't be Syria. The Cuban Resistance Six decades of blockade have produced a very different result in Cuba. The US embargo has tightened and loosened over the years but it has never been lifted. Recently the blockade has stopped Cuba from importing oil from neighbouring Venezuela. This has inflicted immense suffering. American politicians have openly boasted about starving the Cuban people. They speak of it as a job well done. Yet the Cuban government remains firmly in place. Support for the revolution has not collapsed. The reason is straightforward. The Cuban people can see the trap laid out before them with perfect clarity. When every shortage, every power cut and every empty shelf can be traced directly to Washington's policies, blaming your own government becomes an act of wilful stupidity. The blockade is not hidden. It is announced, debated and celebrated openly in the US. There is no ambiguity about where the responsibility lies. Cuba also lacks a crucial element that the US exploited in Syria. There is no ISIS equivalent on the ground. No armed insurgent proxy capable of offering a notional alternative. Without boots on the ground and guns in the street, the sanctions machine loses its final lever. All that remains is propaganda... Full original article by Rory Mo-ran (Critical Theory) Substack open.substack.com/pub/criticalth…
#COMUNICADO || El ALBA hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional a oponerse resueltamente a la amenaza o uso de la fuerza contra la República de Cuba 🇨🇺
