Cuba is an island, across the Florida Strait, with historic ties to the United States. Taiwan is an island 7,000 miles away, on the other side of the Pacific.
This month, Cubans rose up against the 62-year-old Communist regime fastened upon them by Fidel and Raul Castro.
By what yardstick would we threaten war for the independence of Taiwan but continue to tolerate 60 years of totalitarian repression in Cuba, 90 miles away?
Well for a start Cuba isn't enacting policies directly aimed at undermining US interests around the world, and even making great efforts to destabilise the US domestically. Oh and also they didn't do any little things like release a global biohazard or amex any other democratic countries' territories recently.
CCP aren't just commies, they're commies who won't keep their nose out of everyone else's business, the worst kind.
CCP aren't just commies, they're commies who won't keep their nose out of everyone else's business, the worst kind.
That's the endgame for all communism. It cannot compete with capitalism - see the exodus from communist countries to capitalist ones every time that is an option - so to stop their serfs running for the hills any variant of communism must seek to expand it's influence or fight a continual battle to imprison it's own population.
Cuba is the same kind of commie, they just lack any real ability to do anything about it. In fact I would be shocked if you could find any Marxist who would leave non Marxists alone if they had the ability to force them under communism.
It's because Cuba was backed by the USSR's nukes, when it posed any sort of threat. After 1990, it was just sort of assumed that Castro's regime would fall apart on its own, since it no longer had Soviet support to rely upon (the US didn't account for the rest of the world still dealing with the island; they tried to stop that by telling US companies "no, you can't deal with them", but globalization bit that idea in the ass, didn't it?) But even so, without the Soviets, Cuba was simply no longer a threat, so it simply didn't matter who was in charge, and it still doesn't.
Well for a start Cuba isn't enacting policies directly aimed at undermining US interests around the world, and even making great efforts to destabilise the US domestically. Oh and also they didn't do any little things like release a global biohazard or amex any other democratic countries' territories recently.
CCP aren't just commies, they're commies who won't keep their nose out of everyone else's business, the worst kind.
That's the endgame for all communism. It cannot compete with capitalism - see the exodus from communist countries to capitalist ones every time that is an option - so to stop their serfs running for the hills any variant of communism must seek to expand it's influence or fight a continual battle to imprison it's own population.
Cuba is the same kind of commie, they just lack any real ability to do anything about it. In fact I would be shocked if you could find any Marxist who would leave non Marxists alone if they had the ability to force them under communism.
It's interesting to note Cuba was never attacked even when they a major enemy. (Bay of Pigs doesn't count.)
It's because Cuba was backed by the USSR's nukes, when it posed any sort of threat. After 1990, it was just sort of assumed that Castro's regime would fall apart on its own, since it no longer had Soviet support to rely upon (the US didn't account for the rest of the world still dealing with the island; they tried to stop that by telling US companies "no, you can't deal with them", but globalization bit that idea in the ass, didn't it?) But even so, without the Soviets, Cuba was simply no longer a threat, so it simply didn't matter who was in charge, and it still doesn't.
Huh?