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Cuba enjoyed massive support from the USSR for decades and it's still an economically backwards shithole. All the US does is refuse to trade with them.
The US is not obligated to trade with any country. And no action the US ever took posed a serious threat to Cuba or the Castro regime. The poor economic state of that nation is largely because of mismanagement under socialist economic policy. They have plenty of trading partners, they just don't have a developed economy because communism doesn't lead to economic development.