Do Top US Trading Partners Want to Trade with Cuba??

 Yes...Even South Korea!!

      Since 2022 Yoon Suk Yeol has been the President of South Korea, which has been a key ally and trading partner of the United States since the end of the Korean War in 1953. And not in 2024 President Yoon Suk Yeol wants South Korea to be a trading partner with Cuba.

      A mere five years after the end of the ultra-bloody World War Two, the Korean War began in 1950 and by the time bloody fighting had ended with an armistice on July 27 of 1953 the U. S. had lost 58,220 of its soldiers. The Korean War pitted South Korea, backed by the U. S., against North Korea, backed by China. And shortly after the Korean War ended the Vietnam War bagan.

    The ultra-bloody Vietnam War actually raged for years pitting North Vietnam backed by the Soviet Union against South Vietnam backed by the United States. By the time the U. S. finally pulled out its forces in 1973 Vietnam became united under communist rule with the former capital of Saigon renamed Ho Minh City and the new capital being Hanoi. The results of the Korean and Vietnam Wars left North Vietnam a bitter enemy of the U. S. but both South Korea and communist Vietnam both became U. S. friends and trading partners. Now in 2024 Vietnam also is Cuba's friend but not much of a trading partner and neither is North Korea, but in 2024 South Korea is finally making BIG NEWS by wanting to expand its relations with Cuba.

     Of course, if anything positive comes in this crucial year of 2024 of a close U. S. military and commerical ally such as South Korea trying to have positive relations with Cuba remains problematical. After all, the U. S. worldwide influence as the world's top economic and military power trumps any overtures from any country trying to deal positively with Cuba.

     After all...the drastic U. S. trade-commercial EMBARGO began against Cuba began over six dicades ago in 1962 and in 2024, as February turns to March, it is STRONGER than ever even as most other nations around the world appear ashamed of the image shown above.

     Since 1492, the year Cuba and the nearby United States were discovered, Cuba has been wildly coveted by the world's major powers. Its geographic location, directly south of the U. S. and as the largest & most beautiful island in the Caribbean Sea, has placed both the island and the nation of Cuba in the crosshairs as a pawn between internationally powerful nations, especially after the neighboring U. S. became the world's economic and military power after World War Two ended in 1945. Of course, studying maps is actually the best way to judge such facts because the biased pro-and-con media and history zealots slant things only to favor their viewpoints.

     And thus, as we enter into the month of March-2024, the news that key U. S. ally South Korea wants to do business with poor little blockaded Cuba is interesting although probably meaningless. That's because rich nations such as South Korea are eager to keep strong economic ties to the United States. And, of course, both South Korea and the United States are bitter enemies of North Korea, a desperately poor communist nation that also has a massive and very dangerous nuclear arsenal. In other others...as we enter into March-2024 poor little blockaded Cuba appears more than ever to be a pawn, now wedged between nuclear powers as well as between huge economic competitors. Meanwhile...left to its own devices, poor little blockaded Cuba is well aware that it would be much better off being a close friend of its close neighbor the United States than being a close friend of South Korea that is thousands of miles away.

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