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I don't know what you think is false. I agree that the US opposed Cuba, because of socialism, and in order to counter/end socialism there, it inflicted sanctions, consciously as a means to "to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.". https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06...

I agree that they didn't (and still don't) meaningfully care about the people of those countries. The goal of ending socialism was not to help those people (Reagan had a lot more rhetoric about fighting socialism because he cared about the people, but I think like in the Kennedy era, this was mere rhetoric). The people are merely instrumental tools.

You don't have to be pro-socialist or anti-US to believe these things, they're quite well documented.



Great.




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