If the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist?

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  slate.com/…/how-did-the-u-s-get-a-naval-base-in-c…

  The US took the area by force during the Spanish-American War, and then signed a “lease” with no end date with the Cuban government at the time.

  I bet every time Cuba says they want to take it back, the US says “Yeah? You and what army?”

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• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Quite simple: They refuse to leave and Cuba can’t make them.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s what happens when you just click through - you have legally agreed plus agree to binding arbitration for all future disagreements , in a venue of their choice.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It certainly helps when the person clicking through is your flunkie

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  in summary the US is not the “greatest country in tge world” it’s just the stronggest bully

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  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    From some perspectives, those are the same things.

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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      gratest = biggest army?! That’s a very USA perspective, but a perspective nonetheless

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  • guy_threepwood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well yeah, it has inferior potassium.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Its one of the greatest bullies… every big asshole does its own part in this shit

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The American government sends the Cuban government a check every year for the “rent”.

  Unless something has changed, Cuba has never cashed a rent check, because they don’t want an American base.

  It’s incredibly fucked up, but it’s the only A&W combination Taco Bell in Cuba

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Previous Cuban governments cashed the rent check; the current government hasn’t.

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes it’s true, the fascists did not mind taking American money. Surprising!

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It is an acute example of the whole world’s problem with American military bases on foreign soil. They want them to leave but can’t make them.

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  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Djibouti is very content to have the protection that a foreign military base offers. That’s why they let China build one too

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because when you have missiles, you get to make the rules, and they don’t have to be consistent.

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• DicJacobus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cuba cant make them leave. There isn’t an ally who can back them up and go toe to toe with them like there was for a brief period between 1950s and the late 1980s…

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  !AskUSA@discuss.online

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• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because torture is the one thing the US will never ban. Just like slavery.

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