Devastating Cuba: The American Empire is declining and is trying to drag everyone down with it

Devastating Cuba: The American Empire is declining and is trying to drag everyone down with it

As Washington weakens, it is tightening the screws on Havana using blockade, blackouts, and mass suffering to punish defiance
Despite US attempts to sabotage and manipulate the event, the UN General Assembly has followed the request of the Cuban delegation  Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.
While this debate has been an annual event since 1992, this year its backdrop is particularly grim, as Washington has greatly escalated its longstanding economic warfare campaign against Havana. At the same time, the US , which may or may not have been delayed by the US defeat in the war against Iran.
But the Cuba debate at the UN also needs to be put in a much larger context: A quarter of a millennium after its founding and about four decades after the end of the last century’s Cold War in the late 1980s, the American empire is declining.
Two recent failed US wars have made that much clear. Under President Donald Trump, the US has scaled down – though not entirely abandoned – its commitment to the Western proxy war against Russia via Ukraine, leaving the expensive and cruel meat grinder to NATO-EU Europeans too shortsighted to know when to quit and too cynical to care what they do to ordinary Ukrainians.
The reasons for this relative yet significant American disengagement have little to do with Trump’s personal – and volatile – attitude toward Russia, or for that matter, Ukraine. The US establishment has simply recognized that the initial aims of the Western proxy war cannot be achieved: Moscow has not been defeated or geopolitically degraded; regime change has not occurred.
In its failed war against Iran and on behalf of Israel – even while it is sputtering on and – the US has exposed its own limits, if anything, even more revealingly.
America’s unipolar moment, inasmuch as it ever was real, has long been over, as John Mearsheimer – a rare voice of reason in the US – to the European Parliament. Meanwhile, a multipolar world has already emerged, even if it will keep evolving for a long time and is very unlikely to ever correspond to the utopian fantasy of perfect international equality some may dream about. Real-world multipolarity is vastly preferable to American unipolarity, but it will be a global balance of great powers, or at best, a concert of such powers.
Yet there is a paradox to American decline: While the vast majority of humanity sharing a planet with its biggest rogue state urgently needs the US to lose its extraordinary and catastrophically malignant power, the process will not be fun. On the contrary, the declining US is and will be for quite a while even more aggressive, unpredictable, and dangerous than before. Unlike the former Soviet Union, which went down with historically unusual self-restraint, the American empire is likely to wreak ever more havoc on its way down to the rubbish heap of history.
Next to, for instance, Gaza and Venezuela, one place where you can see this US escalation in action is Cuba. Indeed, Cuba is a particularly pronounced example: Under for almost two-thirds of a century, the Caribbean island nation of around 10 million people has recently been subjected to an even fiercer and regime of sanctions and , based on an issued by Trump at the end of January.
Cutting off its oil supplies in particular – a viciously inhumane strategy facilitated by the US assault on Venezuela half a year ago – Washington has been clear that its aim is brutal coercion: Either Cuba submits and becomes, in essence, a US protectorate like post-Maduro-kidnapping Venezuela or its people will continue to suffer under a lethal blockade. By now, Cuba has been hit by its third total , while severe power cuts are already a constant part of everyday life.
Read more And the blackouts and power cuts are only the most obvious effects of what Cuba’s fo