"Let's maybe also consider the role of e.g. US interference and sanctions in your two examples" Or let's maybe not. Cuba could, and did, trade with essentiall

"Let's maybe also consider the role of e.g. US interference and sanctions in your two examples" Or let's maybe not. Cuba could, and did, trade with essentially every other nation on the planet, so blaming "U.S. sanctions" is not a realistic excuse for their failure.