The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.
And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.
So does the US. Iirc, the US provided close to 20% of the WHO’s budget before pulling out…
The difference is, the US is trading resources for geopolitical clout. Cuba is trading services for resources because the embargo forces them to do so.
Obviously if the embargo never exist, cuba may have choose to greatly invest in the medical industry. But it would certainly not been as invested as their economy would have been much wider.
The WHO does good work, but it’s as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.
Not that way that the US doesn’t also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.
But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people’s dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.
More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn’t allow that to happen.
Cuba’s medical work is amazing.
The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.
Tbf, if it wasnt for the embargo, cuba wouldnt invest in the one of the few things they can export.
The bar is low and you guys keep on bringing shovels
*drills
Did we need to play devils advocate today?
We can’t be sure.
The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.
And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.
So does the US. Iirc, the US provided close to 20% of the WHO’s budget before pulling out…
The difference is, the US is trading resources for geopolitical clout. Cuba is trading services for resources because the embargo forces them to do so.
Obviously if the embargo never exist, cuba may have choose to greatly invest in the medical industry. But it would certainly not been as invested as their economy would have been much wider.
The WHO does good work, but it’s as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.
Not that way that the US doesn’t also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.
But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people’s dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.
More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn’t allow that to happen.