Never had a good interaction with Cowbee, they for sure a Tankie tho.

China is less bad than the US in Cuba

There is never, ever, any circumstance where China is less bad than the USA. They’re the top of the totem pole for greed and violence, China is an existential threat to humanity. The worst parts of the USA would be Trump and the GOP, which China endorsed and promoted with psyops such as TikTok to empower.

“Figthing an empire is imperialist” is quite the take on all of this.

I don’t think attacking Iran or Venezuela were justified because the attacks were not sanctioned or planned by US Congress nor were they carried out by USA and Allies combined forces. Instead, both operations were a fucking embarrassment caused by the Orange asshole, as will the Cuban operations if they continue to instigate the stupid animal at the zoo.

For real? I only looked up one of the communities since Feddit.Online doesn’t show the instance in the notifications, Cyberpunk, and it was on Lemmy ML. Is it that I can no longer see the zip community in the list now?

EDIT: Can confirm, the Cyberpunk ZIP community exists but it’s removed from the community search results for me.

Shit, that’s fair, the Nuclear Disarmament Treaty. It just feels completely overshadowed by them arming Hamas to attack the music festival jump starting the genocide by Israel which is the defining event of the last 3 years, among a thousand similar operations stretching back decades.

In 2009 they had a spy convicted of smuggling NATO activity intel to Iran who presumably would resell it. Same year paid $32,000 for a hit in California on an Iranian-German dissident an activist. In 2010 in a port in Nigerian, an Iranian shipment of 13 cargo containers of guns, grenades, rocket launchers, etc was confiscated and not long after a smuggled stash of just under ~$10M USD equivalent, believe to be in connection to a large shipment of Heroin. In 2011 a car salesman from texas was shown to be in contact with the IRGC in a plot to bomb a restaurant in Washington DC. A couple of months later they attempte the assassination of Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Ambassador while in the USA. Around the same time they successfully assassinate security official Hassan M. al-Kahtani in Pakistan. The list of escelations of conflicts just keeps growing longer and longer, more and more every year after that.

Iran absolutely has never attempted a deescalation in my lifetime. They’re the epitome of “fuck around, find out”. They sold death in every direction and now it’s come back to them 10 fold, and it’s not justice, it’s horrible.

Maduro might as well have put a big neon sign above his head, his most famous speech these days are his “Come Get Me” speech mocking the idea of the USA apprehending him. I think a few days before the capture he was singing a different tune, being somewhat ambiguous to US investment for oil, but if we’re drawing parallels to that event then it’s not even worth discussion because that means the conclusion for Cuba is already set in stone as well, just like Venezuela’s was months in advance, and I only hope that isn’t the case.

You brought up Russia’s actions, again, but I’ve already established that Russia wants to expand and the USA does not.

Well the USA has issued a warrant for Raul Castro so unless they want that flavor of violence they should be trying to deescalate.

That’s not much comfort to the thousands of Cubans who will die in the process.

I strongly believe that a voluntary deescelation of Cuba, with some public flattery and a couple small gifts, would resolve the situation with zero casualties. I think Trump is just that much of a fucking moron.

I don’t think “It’s okay, because it’ll either improve if Americans do the right thing (after doing the wrong thing 2/3 times in the past fucking decade), or else Americans will ALSO be screwed” is all that compelling

Right and wrong are one thing, but at some point you have to minimize harm. There is no need for war and mass death in Cuba, so we should be doing everything in our power to avoid it.

Trump put Maduro on trial, got gifted a second hand peace prize, and promptly forgot Venezuela existed. He’s not a complicated man.

Obviously the situations on both fronts are more nuanced than that, with Venezuelan VP being open to negotiation with US oil executives who have been operating in the region for a long time, but the important part is that not only can things not worsen for the Cubans by trading one world power’s protection for another but US citizens will not stand for a permanent occupation of Cuba, and if the GOP tries to hold power past their terms then it will be all of our problems together.

Russia wants to expand borders. The USA does not, it’s just a sick partisan fantasy of the red ties.

Honestly it would be nice if things were that simple, if the eastern bloc were only funneling weapons into their allies, but nope they’re shipping guns and bombs into every nation they can in an attempt to install autocratic loyalists across the Middle East, Asia, South America, and I expect Africa soon.

That’s the real problem is they’re already waging war on the west.

Weathering the storm is different from working towards good relations with the US. Cuba has extended numerous olive branches, and at some point, we have to accept that it’s not Cuba which needs to change course with regards to US-Cuban relations.

And there have been high points and low points in the US-Cuban relationship which has recently worsened as USA tightened the Embargo under the 2nd Trump admin and now the Cubans are literally in the news article that comment is under cheering for literal War with the USA as the Castro family declares they are ready and willing to fight.

And all I’m saying is:

They don’t need to have a war. They don’t need to be fighting for the Chinese, for the Russians, the fucking Iranians for goodness sake. Cuba could just give trump a proverbial handy by agreeing not to militarize and help USA secure the surrounding waters, trade would return, and wait for the demented old fuck to fall asleep and forget about them. In a couple of years it would all return to as if nothing had happened.

No need to obscure it bro, heres a LINK to the full context.

Given the timing, though, much more likely is me derailing their anti-western and pronatalist propaganda in the Science Memes community LINK TO THAT.

EDIT: fixed link

Right now, Egypt is full of internal struggles, including groups which are supplied weapons by Iran. The state of Egypt is allied with the west and is actively participating against Iran. Likewise, I don’t associate Palestine with the militant Hamas. The closest thing to one of my examples being part of the state would be the politically fractured Lebanon, but the ones receiving direct militant support from the eastern bloc only manage a small part of it.

As for the “simping” allegation, can you come up with another solution with zero bloodshed? Can you think of an outcome with bloodshed that is genuinely better for it? Because I can’t. Best bet for Cubans is to weather out the storm that is the Trump admin. Become a part of the scenery.

That’s nice, deary

My trolling of Vegans is exclusively a response to Vegans demanding everyone surrender eggs and never eat meat on any occasion.

If you want to be vegan thats fine but if your idea of helping others make that choice is to insult them then fuck off.

It’s called Democracy.

I just described when the government “does stuff” bucko.

Perhaps such a system could involve workers voting on how best to allocate resources?

Spending taxes on goods and services for the public is socialism’s barest definition. Roads are socialism. Libraries are socialism.

You want to know what’s not socialism? The USSR.

They are socialism, but there are also many articles that only talk about their good points as well. Are you proposing that all western media refuses to say nice things about Obamacare and Social Security? Because I can bring up some examples for you if that’s what you’re saying.

Obamacare, social security, medicare for all, et cetera

All of these things have been covered by the media in overwhelming detail nonstop for over a decade.

So you have no examples? What a surprise.