• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I was told by Lemmy comrades that Cuba has never done any wrong!

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        3 months ago

        Invading neighbors isn’t cool, no matter who does it

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            3 months ago

            Sure. I won’t move the goalposts too much here, and will accept that I was overly specific,… but I legitimately would describe that as separate from an invasion, and instead call that peacekeeping or something else.

            Invasion to me seems like imperialist action to further political or territorial goals.

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              3 months ago

              You should probably look up what Trujillo got up to, since you admit some actions justify intervention.

              Like, for example, a CIA sponsored coup and assassination. But obviously they’re the good guys, right?

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          3 months ago

          But what if a country is invading another country so they will stop invading a country, blocking the attempt by the invaded and invading country to build a revive machine that takes up exactly the same space as it and the invaded country combined to revive hitler?

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            3 months ago

            The other dude being a douche doesn’t make invasion correct.

            Peacekeeping and diplomatic pressure are different.

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              3 months ago

              dude was launching assassination attempts on other heads of state, in addition to thousands of states murders

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    3 months ago

    Land a plane with 56 soldiers to start invasion

    56 soldiers dead

    The VDV would be proud

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    And they were right to try. Trujillo was a monster.

    Edit: and also the invasion catalyzed the assassination of Trujillo

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      Yeah, that’s a nasty military failure, but the Cuban communists were not the bad guys in that period, relative to the other powers in Latin America. I don’t actually know anything about Trujillo, but I bet I can make good guesses about what kind of leader he was.

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        3 months ago

        He was said to have the best fed sharks in the Caribbean. Political dissidents had a tendency to disappear during his reign.

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    3 months ago

    Aren’t those abysmal numbers to attempt an invasion? Were they banking on overwhelming local support?