Now is the joke supposed to be those are cards he can play to make the US look bad? Or is it liberal hysteria of "Russians are funding these bad guys."
Now is the joke supposed to be those are cards he can play to make the US look bad?
yes
Or is it liberal hysteria of "Russians are funding these bad guys."
no
Thank you I am pre-disposed to political cartoons being liberal brainworms.
No prob; I'm just giving my best guess based on the context. I'm assuming this was drawn when Khruschev and Kennedy were both alive and in power. Common criticisms the Soviets had of the US in their propaganda at the time were all true: America supports apartheid in South Africa, America supports the fascist dictator Franco in Spain, America has a huge racism problem and klansmen openly march in the streets. Those were all true at the time and the Soviets didn't really need to come up with crazy shit like Havana syndrome. They just attacked the USA on a pretty straightforward basis: For being reactionary and capitalist. The US's natural response to this would be to pretend it was all just a cynical game, that these were "cards" the soviet union was "playing" rather than legitimate critiques.
If the United States insists on war, we'll all meet in hell.
Goosebumps. But too bad he was just all bark and let the US walk all over him and Cuba
