Question by zombie ann: Why has US government forgiven Russia for the cold war but not Cuba?
Russia and US relations are pretty good overall if you overlook the recent spy scandal. Russians are becoming more capitalistic in nature and have but a few neanderthal remnants left over. Corporations have moved in for the kill and there are McDonalds everywhere you can thing of. Yet Cuba a small island of the coast of the US has not been so lucky. The trade embargo is still in effect and the US has shown no signs of forgiving a country that at one time almost led us to war with Russia. Furthermore, Fidel Castro, former president of Cuba, is no longer the leader and is now run by his brother.
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Nick says
Simple and not,
From an historical point of view, at the end of World War II, the top 3 ranking military super-power were 1. US 2. USSR and 3. Canada. Things did quite changed today for number 2 and 3…
Since then, it was all about Democracy (or should we say, Capitalist) against the "Evil Red Dog" Communist. Conflict like Korea, Vietnam, Latin American , etc…
From ideas, convictions, hate, fears and failure to empathize with the enemy, political tensions and military build-up came to a climax in the early 60s.
Summarizing and leaving the detail out. The soviet political and military implication in and after Cuba's Revolution with Fidel Castro came from a reaction to a strategic move made by the US near the soviet geographical situation.
The US, having the "Evil Red Dog" barking in is backward, had to react and caught a nice indigestion about soviet protected friend next to the Florida's coast. It was unthinkable that a small and unimportant poor country went from Capitalist influence to Communist protected.
At that time, around 1962. Cuba became the world centre of attention and every moves against Cuba would have been seen as hostilities against USSR.
I am not sure that Goliath will soon forgive David, that he stood up and laughed at him… Maybe someday… Who knows… the world is full of surprise, but i doubt it.
Even knowing that Goliath could have easily invaded, decimated, blown to hell David at that time, without great effort.
Mike W says
Unlike Russia, Cuba has, in the past, emptied the most violent of their criminals from their prisons and made it appear that they were political prisoners seeking asylum.
Robert Heinlein fan says
Cause Russia we beat, Cuba still stands firm against us. I hate commies, but respect any enemy who gives the good fight. I still respect the VC we fought more than anti-war americans at home.
Feyd Rautha says
The Russian government changed, the Cuban government didn't
middleclassman says
Cuba won`t take our bad loans and large companies that influence people in government.
Big Bro Handiwipes I says
It would be nice if they would lift the trade embargo sometime in the future to the neighboring appendix. You would be surprise what freeom fried could do to a countries state of mind