you keep saying “install” because it sounds more imperial, or dictatorial. these are the narrative games you guys play
I mean it could really go either way. I’m hopeful that if the Iranian regime collapses we don’t step in to choose their new leadership and they make that decision themselves. Considering that the Iranian people themselves actually like Americans a lot if left to their own devices I’m sure they’d pick a new government that isn’t hostile to the United States.
i think it could too. it will be challenging
getting back to cuba, trump should be in a good position to help pick a new leadership.
none of it’s easy. it’s a corrupt ■■■■ hole world.
Eh I’d rather we didn’t. We have a bad history down there with that sort of thing. Batista only stayed in power as long as he did because of us. In a roundabout way we are ultimately responsible for Castro.
Yes because bombing then picking is totally not installing. It’s just bombing and picking. Nobody believes that again if he would have said installing you would downplay that too. it’s just the nature of the beast
You are obsessed with the word narrative because you need to attack the existence of narratives rather than the actual subject and presidents own words
You fail to miss my point (obviously on purpose) , you could substitute communism for any other type of repressive regime.
we havent bombed cuba. yet.
i dont obsess over the word. it just applies so often. it’s all you guys do. just like the “news”.
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I am glad you witched to Cuba. Thanks for the tacit acceptance.
Would you? Why give a crap about what form of government a country has if they are not causing any trouble?
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The absolutist ideologue in this conversation is you, not thinkingman.
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“I will pick” is an absolutist statement.
Agreed. Plus it’s not like the US is just incapable of being on friendly terms with communist regimes depending on the circumstances. The US and Vietnam are pretty good these days (thanks to China being a general ■■■■■■■ and stick in the mud to both of us) and the US and the USSR had decent relations in the detente period of 1970s and a fairly healthy relationship between the signing of the INF treaty and the Soviet Union taking a dump on itself and dying in 1991. Frankly had it somehow survived it’s likely the US and the USSR would have ended up with a very positive relationship by the late 1990s.
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The 50s were an interesting time in US international politics. The mistakes made in response to the “Communist scare” were profound and to a large part are still apparent today. Cuba is just the one closest to home.
Yeah we made a whole bunch of mistakes back then and just freaked out about stuff instead of logically thinking it through. It’s utterly brain dead how thinks turned out Ho Chi Minh considering he was mostly pro-American until we started heavily supplying the French in their colonial war against the Viet Minh. But eh he was an ideological communist and that just didn’t fly with McCarthy America at the time.
It is amusing how you pick and choose as to which Trump utterances you believe and which you call lies. 
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Yep. The tragedy of Vietnam was entirely avoidable. As it played out, that is. It still could have gone to ■■■■ somewhere down the line.
and bringing the clintons in for an epstein deposition is pure genius on the republicans part.
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Well of course. Whichever suit my argument. And it can’t be a lie if he believes it….. unless we are mind reading him today. finally!
How so? Were the Clintons not regularly acquainted with Epstein?
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Hypocrisy confirmed.
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