La Habana Cuba wrote:Novus America wrote:
Well I object to our current system with Cuba. We should ban all Cuban protects in the US, BUT allow any non military, non security goods to be sold to Cuba.
This would give us a huge trade surplus with Cuba, and more leverage.
We could try the same with Venezuela as well.
lol, I cant believe this post is coming from you Novus America, as I think I have just proven, trade, tourists and diplomatic relations don't work with Cuba or Venezuela, the only thing they understand and respect is force. Cuba has to be forced out of Venezuela, not diplomatic talk, talk, talk, blah, blah, blah, like Maduro is doing.
Oh well this is what I have always said. See what I am proposing is not really trade per se because it would be purely one sided in favor of the US. We let them buy non military, non security stuff from us, but buy nothing from them in return.
We would actually be thus putting more pressure on them.
We continue to make it impossible for them to sell stuff to us, keep up the sanctions on their exports, but NOT our exports to them.
Which is what we already do with Venezuela, they can buy stuff from us, just not sell much to us anymore.
I am not talking Obama style empty “talks” but hard ball diplomacy and the extraction of concessions using leverage.
They respect nothing but force, but economic leverage can still be used.