Vahe Demirjian

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

@ric23 @TheEconomist Some hardline Cuban Americans may insist that the Trump 2.0 pressure campaign is swaying the Cuban gov't to adopt new economic reforms, even though @DiazCanelB insists that the economic reform package is a sovereign decision.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

@ric23 @TheEconomist Miguel Diaz-Canel will be handing over the keys of the Cuban presidency to someone else in two years, and if that happens, hardline Cuban exiles who saw Raul Castro come and go will be forced to live with the reality of communist rule still prevailing in Cuba.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

Israel's deteriorating diplomatic relationship with Turkey created breathing room for Israel to plan for recognizing the genocide. What impact Israeli recognition of Armenian Genocide will have on Israel's sale of UAVs to Azerbaijan is unknown.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

Israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide is long overdue. Like Armenia, Israel is home to a proud people that was trampled upon by foreign powers in ancient & medieval times, yet until now it didn't contemplate recognize the Armenian Genocide. https://t.co/P7gIomkoOD

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

Given that the memorandum from Lester Mallory was issued a month after Anderson's proposal but made no mention of a possible trade embargo, it is unclear if Mallory agreed with Anderson's proposal to cut off oil to Cuba.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

The March 1960 proposal by Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson to cut off Cuba's oil supply again shows that there were people in the Eisenhower administration who wanted to cut off supplies to Cuba. https://t.co/BQsM6boD7F

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

Presumably Anderson was contemplating action to cut off the flow of Soviet oil to Cuba because the island had recently negotiated a trade agreement with the USSR to send oil to the island.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

#FossilFriday Lower jaw of the early placental mammal Protungulatum donnae

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

#FossilFriday Skull of the brontothere Embolotherium andrewsi

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

#FossilFriday Skeleton of the brontothere Rhinotitan andrewsi

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

#FossilFriday Skeleton of the baryonychine spinosaurid Suchomimus tenerensis

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

@PhilEhr The officials at MIA who confronted CodePink after they returned from Cuba probably did so because they were aghast at CodePink individuals for whitewashing Fidel Castro's repressive deeds.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

Mamdani and three democratic socialists who won in the primaries are not fascists. They are virulently opposed to racism. Be careful next time not to call democratic socialism a form of fascism, @RepCarlos. https://t.co/uYPozpp4uj

[Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez @RepCarlos]

Moderate Democrats are losing the battle to the far-left big time. What we are seeing in places like New York isn't just democratic socialism—it is fascism wrapped around socialism. It is deeply frightening to me, and some of these images remind me of what we saw back in 1930s Germany.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

If this proposal is approved, it would be yet another crucial step by the Israeli government to recognize the Armenian Genocide, building upon comments by @netanyahu recognizing the Armenian Genocide. https://t.co/Jo7JVuKLE5

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

@medeabenjamin Important to note that Americans aren't allowed to visit North Korea.

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

When Raul Castro launched China-style economic reforms in 2010, he framed them as a sovereign decision and therefore not a result of US policy towards Cuba. Diaz-Canel is doing the same. https://t.co/KzvtNBAbcW

[Ricardo Herrero @ric23]

“As a whole, the announced measures are significant because they signal that the situation in Cuba is untenable and that US pressure is working,” Paolo Spadoni, a professor at Augusta University in Georgia who studies the island’s economy, said by text message. “They also suggest that Cuban leaders are not even considering political reforms and that ‘concessions’ to Washington will be limited to the economic realm.” - @jimwyss

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

Somewhat agree with the remarks by @SecWar, given that many of the remaining terrorist at the prison in Guantanamo Bay refuse to express remorse for their role in terrorism. https://t.co/nx9DlSpiKW

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

In the future, any remaining American vintage cars should be put on display at a museum in Cuba centering upon what the Cuban gov't calls the hedonism of Batista's Cuba. https://t.co/8tQswJGDcV

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

The remarks by the @SecWar likening immigration to Europe by sea to the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day are laughable and ignorant of the fact that immigration to Europe has had no effect on Europe's democratic norms. https://t.co/xhXy7QgDrQ

[Vahe Demirjian @VaheRocks]

ICAP was founded by Fidel Castro to promote solidarity with peoples in the developing world fighting for decolonization. However, ICAP has no assets in the US. https://t.co/9xaVvEiNAy