EDIT: Correction, I was banned from Lemmy Zip, the confusion stems from my inability to see Lemmy Zip communities in the search anymore leading me to think it was Lemmy ML which has a community of the same name.
Honestly it would be nice if things were that simple, if the eastern bloc were only funneling weapons into their allies, but nope they’re shipping guns and bombs into every nation they can in an attempt to install autocratic loyalists across the Middle East, Asia, South America, and I expect Africa soon.
... I'm talking about your wording.
They don’t need to have a war. They don’t need to be fighting for the Chinese, for the Russians, the fucking Iranians for goodness sake. Cuba could just give trump a proverbial handy by agreeing not to militarize and help USA secure the surrounding waters, trade would return, and wait for the demented old fuck to fall asleep and forget about them. In a couple of years it would all return to as if nothing had happened.
Do you think Trump would accept that? Do you think Trump would limit himself to that? Especially with the Iran War looking less-than-successful? Do you think Trump, the knuckle-dragging fascist cocksucker, would take that as anything but a sign of weakness on the part of Cuba?
Appeasement is rightly condemned as a fool's errand when Russia is concerned; don't fall for the campist trap of applying double-standards to international politics based on whose team colors the current autocrat is wearing.