MicroWave@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoU.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to islandwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down13
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minus-squarecertified_expert@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·8 days agoDumb question here… Under what grounds a nation can determine what other two nations can/cannot do?
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·8 days agoIt’s called Bigger Gun Diplomacy.
minus-squareTyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·8 days agoThe “you and what army” protocol. I guess we’ll see how that plays out
minus-squaretired_n_bored@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoAnd why isn’t it condemned at the UN level?
minus-squareNot_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·7 days agoThe UN has been condemning the US embargo on cuba for nearly every session in the past couple decades and it’s nearly always only the US and Israel voting against it. But the US has a veto so it never passes… Here’s the latest one
minus-squareU de Recife@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·7 days agoThe UN is at its League of Nations stage. Doctors say it’s terminal.
minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoBecause the big gun also has a veto vote.
Dumb question here… Under what grounds a nation can determine what other two nations can/cannot do?
It’s called Bigger Gun Diplomacy.
The “you and what army” protocol. I guess we’ll see how that plays out
And why isn’t it condemned at the UN level?
The UN has been condemning the US embargo on cuba for nearly every session in the past couple decades and it’s nearly always only the US and Israel voting against it. But the US has a veto so it never passes…
Here’s the latest one
The UN is at its League of Nations stage. Doctors say it’s terminal.
Because the big gun also has a veto vote.