And the US Dollar is the measuring stuck upon which all other currencies are based upon. I’d it takes all kinds of regulatory and embargo based nonsense for a bank to play ball with the US and Cuba, that bank won’t do it.
I used to get paid in Euro with a release of funds directly to a foreign account. The account that bank was associated with was turned into USD upon entry. It’s really not that hard.
That euro conversion stuff doesn’t matter if the US won’t deal with any bank that interacts with the Cuban currency. That’s what an embargo does. You’re right it’s not hard to exchange currency. The entire point of an embargo is to function as a financial seige, to prevent the economy of the embargoed target from growing through mutual trade with the literal financial hegemon of our world.
And the US Dollar is the measuring stuck upon which all other currencies are based upon. I’d it takes all kinds of regulatory and embargo based nonsense for a bank to play ball with the US and Cuba, that bank won’t do it.
I used to get paid in Euro with a release of funds directly to a foreign account. The account that bank was associated with was turned into USD upon entry. It’s really not that hard.
That euro conversion stuff doesn’t matter if the US won’t deal with any bank that interacts with the Cuban currency. That’s what an embargo does. You’re right it’s not hard to exchange currency. The entire point of an embargo is to function as a financial seige, to prevent the economy of the embargoed target from growing through mutual trade with the literal financial hegemon of our world.
You would think that the US can’t choose who it does business with. Cuba’s currency is near worthless.