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Yeah, trading with a fascist regime must be good.

• deleted 8y ago
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• tomp 8y ago
  Has not trading with "evil" regimes done any good? 50 years later, Cuba still exists, and so does North Korea...
  • misja 8y ago
    But the Apartheid regime in South Africa has collapsed, and so have (most) communist totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe.
    • tomp 8y ago
      Was that because of trade sanctions, or because the regimes were (internally) unsustainable? (Honest question, I'm not old enough to know.)
      • misja 8y ago
        The first US Sanctions against South Africa took into effect in 1986, 5 years later the Apartheid system was ended. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_A...
• srean 8y ago
  US certainly did not show any shyness in doing exactly that. http://www.derechos.org/soa/ http://www.derechos.org/soa/ Training manual for the school of the Americas http://www.soaw.org/docs/SOA%20Manejo%20de%20Fuentes%201-60.pdf http://www.soaw.org/docs/SOA%20Manejo%20de%20Fuentes%201-60.... https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/28/opinion/school-of-the-dictators.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/28/opinion/school-of-the-dic... I understand that dictatorship != fascism.