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The history of Cuba is another example of why America is such a piece of shit country, and always has been.
Honestly, it must be fucking wildly embarassing that a tiny island, that America has used it's full economic power to try and impoverish and starve to death for decades, has a comparable average lifespan and cancer survival rate, far better infant mortality rate, almost double the number of hospital beds per person, and an over 10% higher literacy rate.
I haven't heard about rich living unattainable lifestyles or jailing those that don't deserve it in Cuba.
Honestly, not at the scale of the US, but Cuba has cracked down on political prisoners and the corruption is sometimes extremely visible in Havana when you see the properties of the elite and government compared to those of everyone else.
So basically the USA but with, ironically, more equality cuz it happens to everyone not just brown people
Got any reliable source on these claims?
I was being facetious. But I doubt you'd have to ask more than 3 MAGAts before one of them denies the "rich living unattainable lifestyles or jailing those that don't deserve it" happens in the USA.
But for real... I was just trying to make a dark joke.
However I have heard of people trying to escape Cuba. Last Cuban I spoke with was saying he had left because of poverty, he said people are not starving; but you have to choose whether to buy food or a toy for your kid.
The US will be responsible if after a US invasion, Cuba becomes similar to some other Latin America countries, crime and poverty ridden.
In the Canadian version of The Price Is Right, multiple people won trips to Cuba. It was filmed in December but has been airing from March-May. Every segment where someone wins a trip to Cuba is preceded with a disclaimer "these episodes were filmed in advance and may not reflect current travel conditions". I wonder if these people got to go on their trips before things went to hell
makes sense. declare victory with iran even though its all much worse than the situation before and then go for cuba to be like. we so tough baby.
What's the purpose here?
I don't see how another threat or actual military operations are going to get anyone any nearer to achieving any meaningful point.
It's just more chaos created for the sole purpose of making large amounts of tax money disappear without a trace.
Drones can fly over water. If they go through with this and Cuba starts doing to the US what Ukraine does to Russia, fair game, eh.