The Western world is hiding in the corner, averting its gaze as the US moves ever-closer to yet another war of aggression this time against the small, impoverished island nation of Cuba, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio signalling that a US war on Cuba is almost inevitable.

The US indictment of the 94-year-old former Cuban President Raúl Castro last week is a classic pre-invasion propaganda manoeuvre. Another recent example is the US charade about fighting for democracy in Iran before killing hundreds of Iranian children on the first day of the war, and thousands of other civilians in the days that followed.

Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to New Zealand, told me this week: “Cuba maintains that this accusation forms part of a broader escalation of political pressure and efforts to criminalise its historic leadership.”

It’s impossible to tell for sure - but it is hard not to wonder if the US  is trying to create a distraction from its disastrous war of aggression against Iran, by launching a war of aggression against Cuba.

The long US strangulation of Cuba started the year I was born - 1959 - and has continued my entire life. ........

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