Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: [OT] "Democracy" Exports of the United States Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:26:55 +0200 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <117u0l0$1srqg$3@dont-email.me> <117utdc$286tm$1@dont-email.me> <1180gsg$2ogl5$1@dont-email.me> <11835ti$3jhgn$9@dont-email.me> <1185h6b$1953i$1@dont-email.me> <1185n0g$e5fp$4@dont-email.me> <1188aoj$2v4bg$1@dont-email.me> <1188h03$1cpfv$10@dont-email.me> <1189g1q$3065p$1@dont-email.me> <1189gks$1otp3$12@dont-email.me> <1189qrg$1b6pe$1@dont-email.me> <118apc6$26p9k$1@dont-email.me> <118b2i2$295rb$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net x7B+YWzDbsI+a432Xo6prw8BiCsIvlc5uLFhvAACdF6VNMY5Pt Cancel-Lock: sha1:3F5gQzA67MBHo0BF2Hc/vXtwIgI= sha256:S7wYZjJ1afnrpatZvh8RUYBXU+1zAddQzYmU1mxiM30= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:91542 On 2026-09-16 02:52, rbowman wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:24:39 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >> No, just more recent. Venezuela is obvious that it is for money gain. >> What is Cuba for? I don't really know. They were not a danger anymore. > > Cuba hasn't been a threat since the missile crisis. I was in high school > at the time. They haven't even been successful in spreading communism. > Castro sent Guevara off mostly to get him out of his hair and that didn't > work out well. > > Must like the cold warriors that don't want the cold war to end, Cuban > expats in Miami keep the fires burning. Little Marco Rubio claimed his > family fled during the Castro regime. In truth they left when Batista was > in power but that doesn't give him much street cred. > > I'm old enough to remember when Castro was a bold freedom fighter trying > to overthrow the corrupt Batista regime. Then he went off script and > became an existential threat to the US. > > I enjoyed Arnie Coro's DXers Unlimited show. Completely unpolitical but > many times it would be jammed. Fidel's 7 hour speeches were an effective > way of jamming Radio Havana anyway. :-D -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.