News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by throwawayq3423 on Saturday July 20, 2024 @09:08PM (#41021584)
> most of the rest of the world has fine relations with Cuba

Most of the rest of the world didn't get Soviet nuclear missiles pointed at them by Cuba.

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by apexalpha on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:01AM (#41023352)
This is 60 years ago... In that same timeframe the EU was formed and grown to 26 nations including roughly 10 that pointed nuclear missiles at each other one time.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by Gud on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:32AM (#41023458)
What time was that? There aren't even ten nations in the EU with nuclear weapons.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by kzrdude on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:54AM (#41023549)
Just like Cuba didn't really itself point missiles towards the US (it was the soviets), the Warsaw pact nations inside current EU were used as Soviet proxies too.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by Gud on Sunday July 21, 2024 @02:09PM (#41026894)
Ok, I still don't get it then. The Warsaw pact nations were not planning on using their nukes on other European nations with nuclear weapons, to avoid getting nuked themselves. This is documented in the (formerly) secret war plans that were released by the Czech republic.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by throwawayq3423 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:54PM (#41028014)
Not only did Cuba allow for missiles to be there, Castro specifically argued to use them.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/23/opinion/castro-wanted-a-n...

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by throwawayq3423 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:52PM (#41027999)
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by thiagoharry on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:31AM (#41025816)
You know that this was a response for american missiles being placed on Turkey, right? By your comment, I assume that you also agree with Russia, when they criticize NATO expansion around their borders, right?
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by kgwgk on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:44AM (#41025888)
By your comment, I assume that you don't see a difference between "not having a commercial relationship with a country" and "invading and annexing a country".
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by thiagoharry on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:57PM (#41029562)
Cuba was being invaded at that time (Bay of Pigs Invasion, later there was also discussion about a false flag attack to kill people, blame Cuba and then justify an invasion). From the point of view of Cuba, the Russian missiles were a way to ensure that other invasions would not happen again. If the missile crises were not solved, then the conflict would escalate to a war, but fortunately, it did not happen.
Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by throwawayq3423 on Monday July 22, 2024 @04:37PM (#41039537)
You have shifted to the justification for the threat, which is not what we are talking about.

Castro not only accepted the missiles, he demanded they be used: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/23/opinion/castro-wanted-a-n...

If you are arguing this is normal or in some way explainable, I don't know what to tell you. There is ample reason why relations aren't good and you cannot exclusively blame others (the US) for it.

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by Log_out_ on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @12:51PM (#41059019)
Everyone in europe had to be fine with that for the whole cold war. Never understood the american hysterics during the cuban missile crisis. Like the END wasnt real before and after.Manifest destiny for exceptional Hipocrasy.