lordandgodoftheobvious:(Source.)[ID: Tweet thread by @LunaOi_VN, broken up into three images. Tweet
lordandgodoftheobvious:(Source.)[ID: Tweet thread by @LunaOi_VN, broken up into three images. Tweet 1:Sometimes I forgot that I was born when Vietnam was still being comprehensively embargoed by the US.The economic sanction was lifted when I was 15 and my life change drastically since then.Lemme tell ya, sanction sucks.[Tweet 2:In the sanction time:- No fresh milk except this condensed milk. It was like super fancy at that time.- No soft drinks like Coke, pepsi…- Virtually no candies or cookies except when I was sick or it was Tet holiday, my mom would buy me some Hai Chau cookies.[images of condensed milk and the aforementioned cookies][Tweet 3 (beginning of second image):- No clean water. We had to drink yellow water from our well.- No stable electricity so of course there was no fridge, no oven, no electric rice cooker…- No gas/electric stove. I had to cook with straw/wood stove my whole childhood.[Image of a pot of something being cooked in a fireplace] [image of two people getting water from a well][Tweet 4:- No new clothes. I had to wear old clothes from my older brother.- When I was 10, I was chosen to study in art class but I could not join because my mom could not afford new art supplies for me.- Meat was somethign very fancy at that time. I could only eat beef twice a month.[image of a set of colored pencils][Tweet 5:- Virtually no medicine except for some basic anti-biotics and vitamins.- Mostly all the vaccines we had were from Cuba. Thanks, Cuba! And yes, Cubans vaccines are running through my veins to this day.[Tweet 6 (beginning of third image):After the sanction was lifted:- I finally could have some fresh milk.- Instant noodles became affordable.- Finally new clothes! Hell yeah!- More medicine, more vaccines.[images of consumer food products, IDK][Tweet 7:My final thought:Fuck the US and its sanction!!!And fuck YOU if you think sanction doesn’t affect a whole country’s economy and the life of millions of people just because the US says so.[Tweet 8:Vietnam was under US sanction for just 25 years, meanwhile Cuba has been under US sanction for 60 fucking years!!!That is I am so pissed at any fucking bootlickers and CIA-sympathizers who blaimed Cuba for what they has been going through.#HandsOffCuba[End of thread. End description.] -- source link