Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 13 days agoEnd the Imperialist Blockadeimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoCastro’s reign was pretty marked with attempted coups, assassinations, and outright invasion. You know, the standard cold war experience. The whole ‘make life as hard as possible so the people have no choice but overthrow their government’ strategy hasn’t really been effective. Ever.
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-213 days agoIt was effective in Syria last month, after a decade (really several decades) of effort and hundreds of billions of dollars. All you gotta do is infinitely fund and arm terrorists “moderate rebels” and Bob’s your uncle.
Castro’s reign was pretty marked with attempted coups, assassinations, and outright invasion. You know, the standard cold war experience.
The whole ‘make life as hard as possible so the people have no choice but overthrow their government’ strategy hasn’t really been effective. Ever.
It was effective in Syria last month, after a decade (really several decades) of effort and hundreds of billions of dollars. All you gotta do is infinitely fund and arm
terrorists“moderate rebels” and Bob’s your uncle.