Why Does US Hate Cuba But Loves Vietnam???

   For the past two days -- September 10th-11th, 2023 -- U. S. President Joe Biden has been in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.  Today my local newspaper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, had this front-page Headline: "Biden touts strong ties with country" and this sub-Headline: "Outreach to Hanoi about global stability." While President Biden makes a warm visit to communist Vietnam, Cubans in Cuba wonder why the U. S., which lost the long and bloody Vietnam War in Vietnam, now loves faraway Vietnam so much while hating nearby Cuba so much. Indeed, Vietnam in 2023 is sending shiploads of rice to Cuba because Vietnam, like most other nations around the world, feels sorry for three generations of Cubans in Cuba that have been starved, deprived, and made miserable by the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba that began in February of 1962 and which Cuba believes has been tightened recently by both the Trump and Biden administrations in Washington.

     Above are headlines that reveal that Vietnam, the Asian communist nation that the U. S. loves, is direly worried about Cubans in Cuba being starved by the endless U. S. Embargo/Blockade if Cuba. Thus...Vietnam is sending as much rice to Cuba as it can, knowing that rice is Cuba's prime food.

       And so...on September 11th of 2023 it is understandable to Cubans that their northern neighbor, the superpower United States, is tightening its cruel EMBARGO that is designed to starve the Cuban economy and thus starve the Cuban people...while the U. S. is loving communist Vietnam that is a strong U. S. trading partner.

    In the 1960s and 1970s the U. S. fought and lost the bloody Vietnam War, at one point having hundreds of thousands of U. S. soldiers in the conflict while also dropping a vast number of bombs on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. But the North Vietnam communists won the war on April 30th in 1975 when they captured the ancient capital city of Saigon that since 1975 has been unnamed as the entire nation became united under communist rule with Ho Chi Minh City in the south and Hanoi in the north becoming Vietnam's two prime cities. The map above shows Vietnam borders communist China, which is the top economic and military rival of the United States.

    Meanwhile, in Havana today -- September 11, 2023 -- this photo shows a Cuban father brushing his son's hair before he heads off to school. While Americans are not supposed to ask why the U. S. loves Vietnam so much and hates Cuba so much, this Cuban father in Havana does ask such questions.

   Just a few days ago the BRICS Summit was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But, as shown above, it included 72 other nations and all 77 expressed strong support for Cuba.

     On his way to the BRICS Summit, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel received red-carpet welcomes in nations such as Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, etc.

     Presidents Diaz-Canel of Cuba and Zi of China solidified their friendships at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg and the overall support shown for Cuba by all the 77 nations in attendance inspired Diaz-Canel to create something he calls "G77 + China Summit" that will be held this coming weekend, on September 15th and 16th, 2023. Back in Havana from his recent trips, Diaz-Canel said, "I want the Cuban people to know that only the United States is trying to suppress our development, and we want to be friends with the United States too. That remains our hope."

   On Social Media and on their modern television and radio stations across their island, Cubans voice their wonderment in September of 2023 about why the last two U. S. presidents -- Biden and Trump -- have tightened the U. S. Embargo against Cuba that had "already been tight" since 1962. Biden just visited faraway Vietnam and said some wonderful things; Trump visited faraway North Korea, where the U. S. lost another bloody war in the 1950s, and said some nice things. But neither Biden nor Trump would dare visit Cuba nor dare to say anything nice about Cuba, or even explain why a nation like Vietnam feels it has to donate tons of rice to keep Cuban families from starving because of the six-decade-old U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE of the vulnerable island nation that is the U. S.'s neighbor.

     Except for the United States, it seems that all other nations and all other Human Rights Organizations around the world believe that Cubans in Cuba HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT A BLOCKADE.

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