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by Manuel_D 33 days ago
No, it hasn't. The ships that were seized were flying false flags. They're subject to seizure regardless of the embargo.
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ceejayoz 33 days ago
A thin layer of plausible deniability does not stop something from being a blockade.
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Manuel_D 33 days ago
What stops it from being a blockade is the fact that ships that are legally registered continue to dock in Cuba.
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ceejayoz 33 days ago
That’s disingenuous. The blockade is specific to oil.
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Manuel_D 33 days ago
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.

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ceejayoz 33 days ago
> 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.

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Manuel_D 33 days ago
As I explained in my reply, that tanker was not forced away. It lied and said it was headed to the Dominican Republic, but tried to sail to Cuba - presumably to surreptitiously sell oil without triggering retaliatory tariffs. When it realized it was being followed by the Coast Guard, it turned around and sailed to its stated destination.

The ship could have made port in Cuba and unloaded it's oil. But then Colombia would be hit with tariffs. The threat of tariffs made the ship turn around on its own volition, not because the coast guard deployed force to stop the ship.

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