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Ah. Blame America First.
When confronted with the consequences of decades of timidity, centrists start sounding like what happens when you pull the string on the back of a trump supporter.
That sentence has been strangled fir all it's worth, which isn't much. Communist controlled states have these consequences and they blame others for them.
Yeah I'm sure it has nothing to do with the embargo that has been in place for, what, ~80 years now? Completely unrelated.
You'd think the US can't choose who to do business with.
Thus.
It kind of is America's fault.
No it isn't. It's not the fault of the fault of the US that Cuba ran out of clean water, electricity and food. They are inept, and no longer supported by the Soviet Union and Venezuela. Venezuela ran out of toilet paper once, and people blamed the US. Ridiculous
So can I tie someone down to a set of train tracks and absolve myself of any culpability when they eventually get run over by a train?
Cuba is not the most sanctioned country in the world, that position is held by Iran and Russia. Cuba only uses sanctions to justify its mistakes and its ineptitude, but with each passing year it becomes more difficult.
Even China is getting tired of Cuba because it does not want to change its economy.
I never said that? Not sure what the point of your comment is here.
The easy response is that they tied themselves to the tracks. Besides human rights abuses, there's this.
https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019/cuba/#:~:text=Overview%3A%20Cuba%20was%20designated%20as,guerrilla%20groups%20and%20individual%20terrorists.
The US can choose who it does business with.
Look what you made us do.