what the US is doing to Cuba right now is one of the most barbaric crimes in its history.

"One of". This is US history we're talking about - the bar is in orbit.

I would say resisting 66 years of unceasing hybrid warfare from the biggest superpower in the world right next door is pretty good sign of resilient and working system.

Small Island nation resists the world's largest and most advanced military for 70 years. Develops state of the art health care system, modernizes energy and transportation, becomes a global tourist hotspot, all under US blockade

Socialism doesn't work

That’s definitely a bonus for them

Why the quotes?

I don't agree on this, but I do think it's shaping up rapidly to become one. We will see in a couple of months, but any tropical cyclone or natural phenomena has a huge destructive potential in Cuba right now.

Please provide a definition so we can frame your argument.

I don't know about that. Genocides don't usually take 80 years, as the population grows. I don't think that fits the description.

I guess this is the best approach.

Isn't that why usa/cia do so much to keep them disablized?

Wanting and having the will to do what needs doing are different things.

The fact that there has not been a unified Latin American defence coalition against the US formed is crazy to me.

There has been one. It's just composed of imperial powers and their corporate proxies.

The defense coalition existed to intercede against slave revolts, anti-colonial nationalism, and Communist uprisings. It has been very successful.

Us in the USA want (and more desperately need) liberation from our leadership.

Join the club

Not yet, but it's a similar action with a similar goal

Both are worse and coming to USA.

They're using the same strategies. Israel is farther along in the process.

The "holodomor" is Nazi Banderite propaganda. There was a famine in an area that was prone to famine for centuries prior. It was not targeted at Ukraine, it also affected Kazakhstan and western Russia. It was also the last time they had a famine.

Fuck off with your holodomor BS

Even an Americans self fulfillment fantasy of being the bestest us president that ever was involves the annexation of Cuba. You guys got a problem.

Oh honey. No. That is not how this works.

Why the fuck would they want to do that?

Jesus fuck, read the room. NO COUNTRY WANTS THAT.

Nobody sane would want to be part of the US banana republic.

I would ask Cuba if they want to join the Union, with all rights and benefits that goes with being a State.

And if they say no you'll definitely leave them alone after that right?

Also, who do you think Cuba broke free from.

IMO, Cuba and other island States have a special potential - as places to try out UBI, universal healthcare, free education at all levels, and other reforms, that can’t be easily implemented in isolation* on the mainland.

*Specifically, I want to try different variations of implementation, to find the best ‘recipe’ for an improved democratic socialism. Islands are good for A/B/C testing, I wager.

"Latino island dwellers are the perfect guina pigs for me to test my half baked ideas to avoid inconveniencing white people when they fail spectacularly"

Cuba is already democratic socialist. And it's working very well in spite of how much effort the richest country in the world puts into killing it.

*Specifically, I want to try different variations of implementation, to find the best ‘recipe’ for an improved democratic socialism. Islands are good for A/B/C testing, I wager.

Dr. Mengele joins the DSA.

Maybe if the US hadn’t tried to invade Cuba the year before they wouldn’t have requested Soviet assistance. Also maybe the US shouldn’t have placed nukes in Turkey if it didn’t want the soviets to do something similar.

Maybe study the whole story before writing. From Wikipedia:

In 1961, the U.S. started deploying 15 Jupiter IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) nuclear missiles near Izmir, Turkey, which directly threatened cities in the western sections of the Soviet Union. These missiles were regarded by President John F. Kennedy as being of questionable strategic value; a nuclear submarine was capable of providing the same cover with both stealth and superior firepower. In the late 1950's missile technology was well developed in the field of medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs), as opposed to ICBMs (intercontinental-ballistic missiles) which could not be kept in a state of readiness at all times.

MRBMs represented only a small portion of the total American nuclear arsenal, but still much larger than the U.S.S.R.'s. Soviet strategists realized that some nuclear equality could be efficiently reached by placing missiles in Cuba. Soviet MRBMs on Cuban soil, with a range of 2,000 km (1,200 statute miles), could threaten Washington, DC and around half of the U.S. SAC bases (of nuclear-armed bombers), with a flight time of under twenty minutes. In addition, the U.S.'s radar warning systems oriented toward USSR would have provided little warning of a launch from Cuba.

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had publicly expressed his anger at the Turkish deployment, and regarded the missiles as a personal affront. The deployment of missiles in Cuba - the first time Soviet missiles were moved outside the USSR - is commonly seen as Khrushchev's direct response to the Turkish missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

If only Cuba had been the sole player in that saga. Instead of a pawn between the USSR and USA.

So you support Chinese reclamation of Taiwan

shit americans say

Cuba is absolutely gorgeous, and it's a shame that the conservatives have been lying about what we are doing, at their directives for the last 50 years.

I guess you can't escape the truth

We are going to keep posting it until you understand.

“Autarky doesn’t work” is something that all economists - from the Marxist to the Austrian - agree on. Every country must exchange the commodities and resources it can produce for the ones it can’t. The large countries blessed with large populations and an abundance of resources (USA, Russia, et al) can get away with a bit better. But a small, resource-poor island with a centuries-long history of colonial exploitation? To imply that Cuba’s economic woes stem from anything other than being mostly cut off from international trade strains credulity.

Do people think that criticizing Cuba makes you not a socialist? Is that the kind of life you want for yourself? (Eating from the garbage)