They're too fuckin dumb to understand nuanced material critique, so all you're doing is giving them ammo to justify their own anticommunist biases from a left lens. There is no nuance in mainstream politics and the discussions therein, only extremes of black and white, with freedom countries on one and evil dictatorships on the other. Stop it.
No, you misunderstand. Don't even bring it up. Don't even bother discussing it except to say that embargoes don't work and only harm the people living there. If you want to delve a bit further on the (mistaken) assumption that you're not talking to a semi-sentient piece of garden furniture, you can say that the reason these countries are kinda fucked up is directly because of the economic and social embargoes.
Ah, gotcha. I misunderstood your post :rat-salute: