@TheBestBradlee@dr_joel01 That's an insane setup, but the cost of these in comparison is astronomical. They look like MBP 14in pros, which start around $2,000.
This is one of my favorite forms of American self-delusion. "No one other than the US observes the Cuba sanctions."
Société Générale was fined $1.34 billion for processing $5.5 billion in Cuba-related payments.
ING was fined $619 million for Cuba wire transfers.
European banks have been hit with 83% of all US sanctions fines.
They "observe" because the alternative is financial annihilation.
If a foreign bank defies OFAC, the US Treasury can cut off their access to the US clearing system entirely.
For a global bank, losing the ability to clear dollar transactions is a corporate death sentence.
They would cease to function overnight.
That's why they obey Washington over their own governments.
The EU has a blocking statute that makes it technically illegal for European companies to comply with US extraterritorial Cuba sanctions.
They comply anyway.
Then there's the "State Sponsor of Terrorism" designation, reinstated in 2021. This label is radioactive.
Over 100 foreign banks have terminated Cuba relationships entirely since then.
It triggers automatic "enhanced due diligence" protocols in every compliance department on earth, making a $500 remittance to someone's aunt look like terrorist financing to the algorithm.
88% of global forex transactions touch the dollar.
Every dollar payment clears through New York. Touch the dollar, obey OFAC.
The US also weaponizes supply chain dominance.
For most countries, foreign products can contain up to 25% US content before Washington cares.
For Cuba, the threshold is 10%.
A Swedish ventilator with US microchips cannot be sold to a Havana hospital without a Commerce Department license.
Since 2019, Title III of Helms-Burton allows US citizens to sue foreign companies in American courts for operating on land nationalized 60 years ago.
A Spanish hotel chain can be dragged before a judge in Miami for running a resort in Varadero. Foreign investment freezes.
Over 160 countries vote against this blockade at the UN every year. Their banks still refuse Cuba transactions, because the compliance industry runs on fear.
The blockade works precisely because other countries don't get a choice.
It's an extraterritorial financial empire.
If a simple coffee shop has a bot farm with 100s of phones to amplify their message, please consider what a foreign agency or adversarial operator is running on your favorite social media platform.
Especially today, please consider that the opinions you read, the calls to violence you hear, and the news you digest, are all an operation done to sow hatred in your mind and your soul.
Do not let anyone online turn you into something that you are not. Rationalize everything, take everything with a grain of salt, question everything for yourself, not based on how someone online is questioning it.
Turn off all distractions and focus on the mission you have, not the mission of someone trying to control your mind.
@JohnoAllTrades@wreckless237@Axy0m @broktechie @NorthernIion_LP I very clearly responded with evidence and substance; you’re just stupid and can’t comprehend something outside of your propagandized worldview
@JohnoAllTrades@wreckless237@Axy0m @broktechie @NorthernIion_LP How stupid are you? Do you think a famine lasts for one day of the year? This screenshot literally achieves nothing and says nothing to the point I made, you illiterate muppet.
@JohnoAllTrades@Axy0m @broktechie @NorthernIion_LP You’re a walking contradiction. This is what cognitive dissonance does to people I guess. Calling people you know nothing about subhuman cockroaches sounds a lot like Nazi shit. You absolute loser; enjoy your dead end job and shitty life!
@JohnoAllTrades@Axy0m @broktechie @NorthernIion_LP You’re really dumb and you talk like an immature twat lol. How many of your tweets are just ad hominem? Add up how many victims there have been to shortages, violence, etc in capitalism and come back to me. You’re probably too stupid for that level of thought though.
@JohnoAllTrades@Axy0m @broktechie @NorthernIion_LP There were famines every single year in China for 1,000 years before WW2, killing millions each time. There were six from 1900 to 1945 that killed tens of millions. The CCP took over in 1949 and had one severe famine (which was terrible, I’m not a revisionist). Your point is moot
@JohnoAllTrades@Axy0m @broktechie @NorthernIion_LP I’m not a communist and you’re a fucking idiot. Claiming another person needs to die because you have zero reading skills or credible arguing points is peak retardation. Your ancestors look at you as the weak, petulant incel that you are.
@JohnoAllTrades@Axy0m @broktechie @NorthernIion_LP YOU do the other massacre, it’s your position that the U.S. is a global do-gooder and that China, Cuba, etc are the modern fascists, you cry baby bitch.