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On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:27:34 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 18/03/2026 18:23, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:43:54 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 	No the Cubans did not destroy Cuba. We did not destroy Cuba
>>> but have badly damaged it by cutting it out of normal commerce. Before
>>> Castro it was a winter vacation paradise but run by a dictator and the
>>> American Mob.
>> 
>> Yeah, I remember when Castro was a brave freedom fighter trying to
>> overthrow the corrupt Batista regime. That didn't last long when he
>> declined to kiss US ass.
>> 
>> 
> In general when you try to overthrow a corrupt dictatorial  regime, what
> comes next is even worse.
> 
> I've seen it in S Africa, in Zimbabwe, in Uganda, in Iran, in Russia

George III wasn't all that bad. Mel Gibson's line in 'The Patriot' went 
something like 'we're trading one tyrant one thousand miles away for a 
thousand tyrants one mile away.'


Then you get rid of the new regime with extreme prejudice, like the short 
lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Hungary)

Bela Kun cut and ran but eventually got a bullet in the back of his head 
courtesy of Churchill's buddy Uncle Joe.