Stop whining Bearded Stooge

At recent ceremony for the Cuban baseball team in Cuba, the Bearded Stooge said the following (my translation) in the reference to the United States:

"It's like if they didn't exist, we don't need them culturally nor economocally at all, we are dignified people with great resistance and used to keep going forward"

Why then must he keep whining about the "embargo", if he doesn't need the USA?

Cuba, Fidel Castro, embargo, Freedom, USA