That is the reason European countries do not block Russian oil exports. There are sanctions and if there is any chance of stoping a ship in line with international law is being used. However it is not a full blockade.

What the US is doing to Cuba is not a “blockade” either, in the dictionary definition. The US is just sanctioning the shit out of anybody who sells oil to Cuba. Which is evil, but legal under international law.

I am not sure about legal as it is causing civilian death. It is a grey area and in violation of human rights and international humanitarian law. Of course no one is really enforcing these against the US sooo…

Possibly. But at least it is a grey area, not obviously illegal. Unlike e.g. Iran shooting random third party civilian ships in an international shipping lane, which is unambiguously illegal.

Yes, but Cuba never did this whereas the US attacked a defenseless ship returning from war games and killed 87 sailors.

The US has also been attacking civilian fishing ships claiming they are narco terrorists summarily executing civilians without trial.

Not very grey areas.

Yes, but Cuba never did this whereas the US attacked a defenseless ship returning from war games and killed 87 Iranian sailors.

It was a warship in a war. So fuck the US in general, but that is a bad example.

The US has also been attacking civilian fishing ships claiming they are narco terrorists summarily executing civilians without trial.

Yes, that was also illegal. But that was not part of the Cuba embargo.

The US is doing a lot of shit right now. But if you want to argue that the US is doing illegal shit related to Cuba, you need to actually cite examples related to Cuba.

Bullshit, that was a straight up war crime. Iran never declared war and we just attacked them for no legal reason whatsoever.

It is a fucking warship in international waters - if it is a war, then it is a valid target.

The US’s war as a whole is illegitimate, I agree. So if you want to complain about illegality then argue that, instead of an attack on a legitimate military target inside the war.

The US murdered those sailors, knew they were defenseless, and did not inform anyone and let them drown. Fucking horrible.

I am done giving the US any leeway with the way they have been acting. Department of War, lethality, and the rest of their garbage.

Playing with the lives of the Cuban people for no reason other than we can. It is disgusting, they did nothing to deserve this.

The US sub not picking up the sailors after sinking the ship does seem like a straight up warcrime.

I am done giving the US any leeway with the way they have been acting. Department of War, lethality, and the rest of their garbage.

Oh, I am right there with you. Fuck the US.

But I just like randomly flinging around words like “illegal” in the sense of “things I don’t like”. If we do not require ourselves to make sure what we say is true, then soon we will be no better than them.

I see where you coming from, but it is clear that everything the US has been doing lately is illegal and I am not a lawyer so I don’t risk anything by calling it as I see it.

Cuba, Iran, Ecuador, Yemen, and Venezuela have done nothing wrong and the US is clearly an illegal aggressor. They haven’t even produced any justification other than sound-bite propaganda.

Also, absolutely insane to be threatening Canada, Mexico, and Greenland with invasion. Truly the US has positioned itself very similarly like Germany did during the start of WWII.