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The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer
- usrnm 4mo ago[flagged]
- danaris 4mo agoIt is entirely possible for the US government to have been implementing an awful policy for decades, and for Trump to be cranking it up to 13 and making things massively worse. Most things aren't binary.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 4mo agoThe extremity of the current administration's actions do not absolve the sins of others. The extremity of the current administration's actions should not be ignored just because others did some things in a similar direction. "Yawn, same shit different day" is how we sleepwalk ourselves into fascism.
- drfloyd51 4mo agoHe IS doing it. He could choose to do better. He doesn’t get a pass.
- cjbgkagh 4mo agoTrump has taken corruption to a new level. Biden was bad, this is worse. It’s like stealing power lines for their copper, the damage to the general wealth is immense. I think a big part of the shift to democrats in advance of the midterms is the hope that democratic oversight will put an end to it. Either way, this is what the looting stage of collapse looks like to me. I have no love for communist regimes but this corrupt capitalism alternative understandably isn’t appetizing. Consider the damage the Harvard Institute for International Development did to post USSR and how a country that was eager to adopt western ways was introduced to new levels of looting they didn’t even know was possible. Perhaps if we had a better track record in governance people wouldn’t be so reluctant to adopt it.
- gadders 4mo agoIt's already in the hands of rich men: "A decade ago, Forbes estimated Fidel Castro’s personal net worth at $900 million." https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2016/11/26/10-surprises-about-castros-extravagant-life/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2016/11/26/10-surpr... I'm sure most of that went to his sons (the ones that weren't Prime Minister of Canada).
- 3683826312819 4mo agoI hope they continue terrorizing the communist regime that tortures dissidents.
- Milpotel 4mo agoFascists torturing communists... seems familiar.
- daft_pink 4mo agoThe person who wrote this never asked a Cuban immigrant how they felt about the government in Cuba. Many will tell you a story about how their family desperately escaped on a row boat, are lucky to be alive and blame Castro. The bottom line is that many Cuban immigrants in the United States feel that the current government destroyed the country and should be removed and Marco Rubio’s quest to fix Cuba is a reflection of Cuban immigrants values.
- andyjohnson0 4mo agoThere is a strong argument that the Cuban government has treated many Cuban citizens badly. But the assertion that this mistreatment is why the US is behaving aggressively towards Cuba is pretty naive. The people in power in the US at the moment do not care about the civil and political rights of Cubans. They care about acquiring Cuba and its natural reaources for themselves and their clients.
- alehlopeh 4mo agoMarco Rubio cares about his own quest to be the man who finally frees Cuba from communism. He doesn’t care about natural resources. It’s a pride thing. And I’m fine with that.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 4mo agoRubio's family left Cuba before the revolution that put Castro in power. Rubio has been pushing a false narrative of his family's history for a long time.
- alehlopeh 4mo agoDoesn’t matter what the history of his family is. That’s his stated goal. Or don’t you think they would have returned once Batista was removed from power?
- sjsdaiuasgdia 4mo ago
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- AndrewKemendo 4mo agoYou could make this a headline about anything and it would be true The U.S. Is (insert anything) to Make Rich Men Richer
- boxed 4mo agoMaybe. But also, if the regime falls, you know who will become richer and more healthy? ALL CUBANS! If bad people do the right thing for the wrong reasons, we should be thankful, not angry.
- fabian2k 4mo agoShould the Cubans that will inevitably be killed along the way be thankful as well? Or the Cubans currently suffering due to the blockade? Even for clearly despotic regimes, overthrowing them is not the obviously right thing.
- boxed 4mo ago[flagged]
- UncleMeat 4mo agoOh yes. We've seen so many US invasions for the purpose of regime change end up with prosperity for the citizens of those countries.
- boxed 4mo agoSouth Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Belgium, Afghanistan (although Biden fucked up and pulled out), and Iraq. That's a pretty impressive list.
- misano 4mo agoFree markets harm children and people of Cuba, but communism doesn't, I'm sick of these leftists.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 4mo agoWhat part of the free market demands the blockade currently imposed on Cuba?
- BergAndCo 4mo ago[dead]
- misano 4mo agoAmerica: Get rid of communism and become a democratic government so that your people are free and your government is not a threat to us. Are you upset that a liberal government is preventing the maturation of an authoritarian communist government so that a result similar to North Korea does not happen? Sanctions and blockades are what achieve this, and these things do not happen with diplomatic handshakes.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 4mo agoYeah as an American I totally feel threatened by the Cuban government in the year 2026. Holy hell man, get a grip.
- OutOfHere 4mo agoTrump's problem is that he sees the US and the world only through the lens of maximizing profits for his cronies. In the face of global warming and climate change, this is extremely harmful to the country and the world. His attitude is always win-lose, never win-win.
- dieselgate 4mo agoOn a recent podcast episode Ezra Klein mentioned something like "when making agreements one should be able to accept the deal of either side" which is something that's stuck with me and is basically an elegant way of describing a win-win situation.
- BergAndCo 4mo ago[dead]
- OgsyedIE 4mo agoOdd to see no mention of the US government's rationale for intervening over their continuing to leave a vaguely weak enemy alone as past administrations have: the US believes that inhibiting Chinese covert activity (real or imagined) has risen in necessity to now outbid the cost of invasion. This could have only come to pass because the administration has faith in the pessimistic forecasts for peace between Beijing and Washington. If so few private sector forecasters thought Tariffs and Hormuz were important black swans to consider, how can we give the forecasts of no US-China conflict as much credence as we do? Idk if Hn is the place for my making such remarks, however, as the commentariat has gotten much less confident in the value of sober political analysis than before.