Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 26 days agoEnd the Imperialist Blockadelemmy.mlimagemessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·26 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-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-226 days agoYep, and people think it’s silly that North Koreans hate the US that starved them through sanctions, committed genocide, and dropped more tons of bombs on it than the entire Pacific Front.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoIt was effective in Syria last month, after a decade (really several decades) of effort and hundreds of billions of dollars.
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.
Yep, and people think it’s silly that North Koreans hate the US that starved them through sanctions, committed genocide, and dropped more tons of bombs on it than the entire Pacific Front.
It was effective in Syria last month, after a decade (really several decades) of effort and hundreds of billions of dollars.