This is the type of hate I don’t get. Even if you dislike Cuba regime, what did they ever do to attack another nation to validate bombs being thrown at them? If communism is such a self-destroying ideology, wouldn’t it eventually collapse by itself?
Feels like desperate late-year decadence of empire type of action to assert dominance and control. Even during the Cold War Cuba wasn’t bombed, although there were several invasion and interference attempts. And Cuba used to be way more authoritarian back then! But now that they’re gradually more open, US is seeing this a weakness and opportunity to try more incisive action.
That’s why some of the left ends up justifying authoritarian measures, for stability. Even if that’s the wrong way to respond imo. Closed regimes isolate from the world and that’s exactly the goal from the west in regards these countries. You give the narrative back to them.
Although it would be fun to see the Latin American right completely lose any moral narrative they have if US starts treating Latin America like the Middle East. If the left managed to gain and establish some strength using political foreign interferences as a narrative, imagine if bombs start being thrown and a war is started in the region.
Wasn't there a time when we did treat Latin America like MENA? The up front costs I don't think would be the problem with routinely invading and conquering Latin American country. The US has been doing this in practice for 100 years and in theory since the Monroe Doctrine. The problem is whether we really want to risk a situation that could make the drug war look simple. Worst reasonable case scenario is that we eventually have dozens of brigades throughout the Neotropical world in a time when China and Russia are becoming increasingly aggressive and eventually reach a time where groups like FARC can only be actively suppressed with a direct military occupation.
The more you think about it, the dumber this sounds.
