Tag: Eastern Bloc

  • Why Cuba Hasn’t Adjusted to US Sanctions after Six Decades

    Why Cuba Hasn’t Adjusted to US Sanctions after Six Decades

    For the thirty-second time in so many years, the US blockade of Cuba was globally condemned at the UN General Assembly’s annual vote in October. Only Tel Aviv joined Washington in defending the collective punishment, which is illegal under international law. For the vast majority of Cubans, who were born after the first unilateral coercive […]

  • A Word Like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War

    A Word Like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War

    Erik Bulatov (USSR), Horizon, 1971–72. On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May. Over 90,000 troops from NATO countries (and one partner country, Sweden), including fifty naval groups and more than eighty air platforms, […]

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