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Re:US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest by bayesianhorse on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:32AM (#7523511)
I think the US is still holding a grudge about the little incident with the nuclear missiles, when Che Guevarra tried to convince the Soviets behind the scenes to launch a nuclear preemptive strike against the US...
Re:US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest by thisiswrong on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:52PM (#7524646)
Well you sure don't read the news. This is not about some old missle crisis from last century. This is about greed and expanding global putocratic control. Very similar to what's going on in Ukraine, Syria, and Libya.
Re:US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest by bayesianhorse on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:15AM (#7529809)
One could argue that the Crimea invasion, Assad's decision to use his army to carpet bomb his citizens and Gaddafi's decision to use artillery against civilian neighbourhoods was born out of "plutocratic" reasoning.

Or would you say "plutocratic" does not apply to the use military force for personal profit? Because the US certainly didn't profit from your examples, even if this doesn't prove the absence of an intention to profit.

Re:US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest by thisiswrong on Friday April 04, 2014 @04:40PM (#7534205)
and here lies the problem...