As the world confronts deepening humanitarian crises, two U.S. policies stand out for their extraordinary cruelty.
Yesterday, the United Nations overwhelmingly voted to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba — a decades-long policy that continues to strangle an island nation already devastated by Hurricane Melissa. At a time when Cubans desperately need aid, medicine, and food, this embargo punishes ordinary families while isolating the U.S. from global consensus and basic compassion.
At the same time, Washington’s continued supply of military weapons to the UAE indirectly fuels atrocities in Sudan, where the UAE’s backing of the Rapid Support Forces has contributed to a genocidal campaign in Darfur. Instead of promoting peace, U.S. arms exports enable mass killings and deepen human misery.
It is time for America to align its foreign policy with humanity — to end the embargo on Cuba and halt arms transfers that empower war criminals. Silence in the face of such suffering is complicity.
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