• Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Even the USSR allied with England and the US to defeat Hitler, and the CPC allied with the KMT to defeat Japan. So what is your point here? I trust the Cuban leadership on Cuban military affairs way more than some guy with an internet connection.

    • CamillePagliacci [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      This analogy doesn't work unless you believe Cuba is currently close to being invaded. This is a geopolitical alignment, not an alliance of desperation against a genocidal threat. Cuba sees aligning with Russia as preferable to isolation, it is not gearing up for a potential war with the US.

      • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        Cuba is not facing an invasion but they are facing a strangling embargo, aligning with Russia is preferable than withering away in isolation.

          • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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            5 months ago

            Do you seriously think they went out of there way to get Russia help with not starving and no one else? What connections are you even talking about?

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        This is a geopolitical alignment, not an alliance of desperation against a genocidal threat.

        Yeah, sanctioning a tiny island and threatening the whole world to follow along in a globalized economy is not akin to genocide.