You are not angry that Cuba "failed." You are angry that, under conditions designed for total failure, it still refuses to apologize for having chosen dignity over subservience.
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You keep saying "leftists refuse to see Cuba’s trade reality" as if the last 60+ years of U.S. policy were a mood, not a structure.
Cuba trades.
Of course it trades.
It trades with whoever is willing to risk Washington’s penalties, secondary sanctions, and political pressure.
That is not "normal" trade.
That is trade with a knife at your throat.
When the most powerful state on Earth writes laws to punish ships that dock in Havana, to sue companies that invest there, to blacklist banks that process Cuban transactions, and to threaten any country that gets too close, you do not get to turn around and say:
"See? They are free to trade. If they are poor, it is just incompetence."
You call it "banana republic" like the old U.S. companies that turned half of Latin America into company towns, then blamed the workers for being barefoot.
What you are really saying is this:
We spent decades trying to make this island scream.
We used invasions, terror, and embargoes to stunt its development.
We blocked its access to credit, technology, and markets.
And now, standing over the patient we strangled, you point at the scars and say:
"Look how weak they are. Communism failed."
You talk about "brain drain" without asking why a small island under permanent siege might lose doctors and engineers:
Because richer countries dangle higher salaries.
Because sanctions make basic supplies hard to obtain.
Because an entire system is punished for not collapsing fast enough.
Then you take the consequences of that pressure and pin it on "Marxist incompetence."
If you want to know what incompetence looks like, let us use your own yardstick:
Cuba, under embargo, trains doctors and sends them abroad.
The U.S., with the world’s largest economy, cannot guarantee basic healthcare to its own people.
Cuba, under embargo, wiped out illiteracy in a few years.
The U.S., with unlimited wealth, produces millions who can "debate" politics all day and still know nothing about what their state does abroad.
Cuba, under embargo, exports medical brigades.
The U.S. exports drones.
You say, "You made a banana republic into a communist country and expected greatness."
No.
We watched a mafia playground make a revolution and refuse to crawl back to the casino.
Greatness is not skyscrapers and shopping malls.
Greatness is saying no to the empire right next door and still refusing to kneel after six decades of punishment.
You compare Cuba to Nauru as if history is a neutral lottery.
Nauru was strip-mined into ecological collapse by "competent" Western companies.
Cuba was attacked, sabotaged, and blockaded for the crime of nationalizing its own land and refusing to be a plantation.
If your argument is that small, colonized, exploited nations struggle to become industrial powerhouses overnight, you are not refuting Cuba.
You are confirming why their choice to defend sovereignty matters.
So let us be clear:
You are not angry that Cuba "failed."
You are angry that, under conditions designed for total failure, it still refuses to apologize for having chosen dignity over subservience.
That is why you need to call them "incompetent people."
Because if they are not incompetent, if they are simply a small island punished for refusing to obey, then the disaster is not Cuba.
The disaster is the system that made their punishment look normal to you.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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