Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.survival,misc.survivalism Subject: Re: Bring your own generator if you want to visit the Hispanic failed state of Cuba Date: 14 Mar 2025 18:38:44 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 6um+3g54JraXAZ+O8s/SqQ/F994mvaGBBf/2NtZSI9BJmRPVN0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gto7zAygTgn47hXuqK1kX1RgxmY= sha256:tWBxKp4JckS7GkmtKhQR87pIiqLEX98uKBhhivEuIKo= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 2001 On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:11:04 -0600, Burny Sanders wrote: > You are obviously well prepared for weather emergencies, as is your > nation. As for Cuba, it was a thriving nation prior to Marxist Fidel > Castro's experiment with communism and his nationalization of American > owned companies without compensation in 1959. He had support in the > U.S. for a brief period of time and was even considered a George > Washington style revolutionary figure. It seems that several Democratic > Party mayors and governors in the United States want to take us down the > same failed path that Castro did in Cuba. Not sure why you seem to be > upset by my post which paints a sad picture of Cuba today. Yeah, I remember when Fidel was a heroic freedom fighter working to overthrow Batista's corrupt oligarchy. Then Castro declined to follow the playbook and became a pariah. He did have the sense to send Guevara off to anyplace but Cuba. I still can't see the sense of the decades long embargo though other than revenge by wealthy Miami Cubans like Rubio.