Cuba officially applies to join BRICS as partner country — senior diplomat
Cuba officially applies to join BRICS as partner country — senior diplomat
Carlos Pereira noted that BRICS "is consolidating global politics and the hope of the Global South as a key player"
Hopefully this is a path to the much-needed relief from the blockade that's strangling Cuba
Indeed, one of the rules of BRICS is that countries cannot sanction one another. This would open Cuba to unfettered trade with the biggest economic bloc in the world.
The actual mechanisms of the Cuban blockade are that any ship/shipping company that trades with Cuba is banned from American ports for the next 6 months. If BRICS is openly inviting Cuba in, that means that a meaningful chunk of the economic bloc's logistics companies feel comfortable effectively never dealing with the US, which has massive implications for global trade going forward.
Yeah situation is looking pretty bad these recent years
Would they have to fight the US military to get aid through?
That is not historically how the blockade works, but you never know.
Reminder that even most of
supports ending the embargo, it's only the US that wants to keep it going.also the zionist entity aka the unofficial 51st state
Are you forgetting someone?
Harden your heart oh Putin!
Even within the US itself, the resentment aimed at Cuba is reserved nearly exclusively by Cuban ex-pats (who have been wallowing in fascist propaganda for half a century) and the state security services (who continue to resent Cuba as a gaping hole in the Caribbean security perimeter and an enormous black mark on their history).
Mainstream Americans have no real skin in the game. Cuban foreign policy doesn't crack the top ten policies most Americans care about. And the generally positive pressure around Cuba as a resort location and a luxury brand has left the average tourist-brained American envious rather than hateful.
The gang is coming together again
Great to see! Finally some light at the end of the tunnel of suffering caused by the blockade.
Cuba getting BRICSed up!
Where did this application fall on the "just a diplomatic formality announcing something that is going to happen soon" to "the first beginning of a long and arduous process where nothing is guaranteed" scale?
Is this Sweden wanting to join NATO or Ukraine wanting to join NATO?
Nah, I think this will have tangible consequences of opening up trade for Cuba.
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Cuba is a rich nation when its borders are open. And with all the sanctions flying around from the US, I can see a point at which you can do business between Brazil, South Africa, Iran, Russia, and China without ever touching an American market, simply because so much shit has been added to the sanctions list.
Currently, a country declares itself interested in joining BRICS at which point there's a process of consultation between the chair of BRICS (who talks to the interested party), the foreign ministers of BRICS (who talk to their own leaders) and then the heads of government themselves. With the latter you need to build a consensus towards extending an invitation. Once that happens the country joins as soon as its leader chooses to. It's also not like the original 5 are BRICS' security council. The consensus includes all 10 members.
Ironically, had Milei let Argentina join he could play a spoiler and deny Cuba entry.
let out an involuntary "oh hell yeah" Really hope this can help to ease some of the pressure from the US's boot on their neck, and excited for the longer-term consequences this could have
2024 summit is soon right? hopefully they get let in
Would China let them in and what consequences would this have on their trade with the US if they do?
The US is already in a trade war with China that's only escalating. The most immediate impact would be that the US could block Chinese companies trading with Cuba from access to their market.
Sure, but according to this, US-China trade in 2023 represented around 575 billions $ worth of goods (of which US goods produced in China wouldn't be immediately impacted I suppose). I guess it would depend on who gets hurt more, China or the US at the end of the day but it could have huge consequences for both countries
Yoooo that's awesome!
Oh yeah, it's all coming together.
I want to be optimistic about this but its quite improbable that China is willing to die on the Cuban hill out of nowhere for little gain when they're currently giving up on the arguably far more important(materially if not ideologically important) Russian hill e.g they're letting US sanctions on Chinese banks affect trade with Russia.
We'll see but I smell they'll do something like honorary member or some shit and give marginal diplomatic or whatever benefits, maybe disguise it as foreign aid or something.
The reality is that the US is already in an open trade war with China, and it's only going to escalate. Doing trade with Cuba is gonna be no different than doing trade with Russia from China's perspective. Chinese trade with Russia has exploded since the war started.
It's not gonna make any difference but it looks cool.
I think it will make a difference because BRICS nations cannot sanction one another, and that means Cuba will gain access to a huge market that the US has no control over.
I still don't understand BRICS from the perspective that India is a major part of it, who is a major US ally.
The relationship between India and the US has been pretty rocky since the war in Ukraine started actually. India sees itself as a sovereign power, and the US is not capable of treating other nations as equals. My expectation is that India will continue refocusing on the BRICS and the relations with the US will likely continue to cool going forward.
BRICCS?
