American companies invested tens of billions of dollars in Cuba, built the roads in Cuba, built the railroads, built the refineries, and Castro believed he could nationalize all of that, forcing them to eat a massive loss, and still buy what he needed from the USA.
Castro openly went to the US for assistance to free the people of Cuba from the foreign colonialist occupiers... most of which was actually Mob related and therefore hardly legitimate anyway.
The US rejected them.
The Soviets were happy to step into that gap and provide assistance... with no other offers Cuba went from nationalist to communist. You could say exactly the same in Vietnam... it was never about communism... it was everything about the Vietnamese first kicking out the French and then the Americans and getting control of their own country... if the Soviets had supported the French and the US had gone in and supported the north then America almost certainly would have come out on the winning side... however long it took... in fact it would have been much quicker as the Soviets would not have been able to support a ground force in south vietnam for very long... if at all.
Until they return the assets or pay reparations, the embargo should remain.
How about the US apologises for terrorist actions in Cuba like burning sugar cane fields and supporting an invasion at the Bay of pigs?
If you have a 5,000 acre farm for growing wheat but you have no mill to process the wheat so you contract with me and I end up buying 30 acres of your land and setting up a mill at my own expense, and you immediately turn around and seize the mill once I am done building it, you have to understand we are going to have a major problem.
Except when you go into a foreign country and bribe the corrupt government and buy land for 20c an acre and then pay locals 1c a day to work your land so you can sell sugar for a dollar a kilo back home and keep all the profits... it was worse than coffee growers. If the locals didn't like working in the cane fields they could go to the big casinos and bars and sell drinks to rich fat americans enjoying their beaches and their women.
Yeah... I wonder why they wanted that to change... it is not like it was Castro on his own... it was the majority of the population that asked those rich guys to leave.
No but seriously, what is it about this forum that attracts so many closet racists?
People believe what they believe.
For one to be Russian one has to be Slavic, entirely Slavic/Rus.
Interesting... and to be American you would have to be a Native American? Or Mexican?
Of course it is possible to obtain a Russian passport and have a legal right to live in Russia and work in Russia without being of the Russian/Slavic ethnicity.
So what you are saying is that a Russian passport is a cover to pretend to be slavic?
A Turk born in Russia is no more Russian than a German born in Pakistan would be Pakistani.
So what you are saying is the US is a country populated by passport holding Europeans and Asians and Africans and the only real Americans are native americans, mexicans, and natives from central and south america... interesting.
magine that each woman would have 12 to 15 children over the next two decades...
If they decided to have 12 to 15 children each in 20 years and they all actually managed to do that I would not want to get in their way... they would be formidable women by any measure!
In summary, a mixed race person in Russia who is not White/Russia should be afforded the rights and protections provided by the law, assuming he is lawfully residing in Russia, but he should not be accepted as a Russian nor declared to be a Russian because his blood is not Russian.
Interesting, because the same sort of ideas here in New Zealand suggest the same thing...
In summary, a person in New Zealand who is not Maori should be afforded the rights and protections provided by the law, assuming he is lawfully residing in New Zealand, but he should not be accepted as a New Zealander nor declared to be a New Zealander because his blood is not Maori.
The thing is that Russia is made up of hundreds if not thousands of little ethnic groups and they are all already considered Russian... Russia is a Federation remember. Adding a few new groups will not radically change that... as long as the focus is moving forward and getting along... rather than arguing and looking at differences.
What use would a tool box be if you could only carry one type of hammer and no other tool?
Russian forum moderators are mature adults who can handle people with different beliefs.
He is actually right there...
The standard way to handle things on any forum operated by Anglo/American moderators is to denounce differing views as "racist" and then ban the forum member.
Which is quick and easy, but doesn't really deal with the issues.
It only makes me wonder why our Indian members stay quiet Smile IMHO, Indians are cool, and I get along with them pretty good, not like with their "neighbours" Wink I had chance work with are very talented and would never put myself higher then them. One of the calmest people I've met.
I don't want to speak for them as I have no authority to do so, but I suspect it is a battle they have and will fight all their lives when around white people and they know it is just like arguing politics or religion. A few words are never going to change such fundamentally held beliefs and to be honest anyone who has a chat online in a forum and suddenly realises their beliefs were wrong obviously didn't spend much time thinking about them properly in the first place.
Art of war... I have never read it but I suspect one of the rules is don't look for battles you can't win.
I see massive non-white immigration into centuries old White nations as a form of demographic colonization and I detest it along with other forms of colonialism and imperialism.
Yet by your own beliefs human migration is normal... without white migration north america would be largely empty. Why would it change now.
You admit your government let almost 200,000 Indian nationals into your country because your country needed their expertise.
Which makes you?
Which makes him TR-1.
It is amusing that your opinion of him is more based on his ethnicity than what he has said, but that is the problem with such views... you miss out on interacting with some really neat people because you can't get over the fact they might not need to spend time in the sun each summer to get a tan.
Personally ethnicity or race is totally unimportant to me... an interesting person is an interesting person... and an Ass is an Ass... whether they are white, or blue, or pink.
Of course I don't judge people for their views either so I don't hate BTRFan or Nick or anyone here even if I don't agree with them.
We can disagree on all sorts of things... this is the internet, not the UN... we don't have to sort out the worlds problems here.
Just keep it civil and treat everyone with respect and there will be no problems.