Nobody should be surprised that the U.S. is tacitly supporting the genocidal Israeli massacres of as many Palestinians that they can manage. There are many reasons for this support, and one of them is gratitude for having reliably supported the genocidal embargo of Cuba by the U.S. for more than 60 years.
In 2023, as it does every year (with the exception of 2020 because of COVID), the General Assembly of the United Nations overwhelmingly adopted a non-binding resolution to condemn the embargo and call for its end. The vote was 184-2 and the U.S. and Israel were the only two member nations to vote against it. Each year since 1992, the U.S. has voted against that resolution, of course. And each year, the only other country to always vote with the U.S. against that resolution is Israel. A few other nations, while under the rule of various autocrats, have infrequently joined these two, but the U.S. can always count on Israel.
The official press release of the U.N. said, in part:
While the Assembly’s vote carries political weight in terms of international diplomacy, only the US Congress can lift the economic, commercial, and financial embargo in place for five decades.
I think this condemnation of the embargo by former U.S. Senator Gary Hart, from 2011, sums up the futility of the embargo very well:
Future students of American history will be scratching their heads about this case for decades to come. Our embargo and refusal to normalize diplomatic relations has nothing to do with communism. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, with China since Nixon, and with Vietnam despite our bitter war there. No, Cuba was pure politics. Though it started out to be a measure of an administration's resistance to Castro's politics, it very soon became a straitjacket whereby first-generation Cuban-Americans wielded inordinate political power over both parties and constructed a veto over rational, mature diplomacy.
In practice, the embargo is also hypocritical: through various treaties and other arrangements, the U.S. and Cuba do conduct trade. The U.S. is Cuba’s 7th largest trading partner.
But there is no doubt that the daily lives of Cuban citizens are profoundly impacted by the embargo. If you’ve ever been there, you will have witnessed the nation’s shared poverty and their lack of ready access to simple necessities such as toilet paper and soap. Lack of access to those types of sanitation-related goods translates directly to widespread health risks and illness.
Obviously, the U.S. has not massacred the Cubans and destroyed their infrastructure with military weapons. But the deadly impact of this nonsensical campaign to pander to anti-Castro Cuban expats in Florida has had a more subtle but cumulative deadly effect.