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by ceejayoz 33 days ago
> A blockade is a unilateral action where a country seizes vessels that try to dock at the blockaded country.

Extensive evidence of this occurring has been repeatedly presented to you.

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No, it hasn't. The ships that were seized were flying false flags. They're subject to seizure regardless of the embargo.
A thin layer of plausible deniability does not stop something from being a blockade.
What stops it from being a blockade is the fact that ships that are legally registered continue to dock in Cuba.
That’s disingenuous. The blockade is specific to oil.
Ships carrying oil are free to dock in Cuba. But whatever country is selling that oil will be subject to tariffs in the US.

You can call it a blockade a thousand times, that doesn't make it true.

> Ships carrying oil are free to dock in Cuba.

You know this isn’t true, but continue to assert it. I gave you a link to a non-false flag tanker that was forced away by the Coast Guard and escorted out for several days.