The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer

robtherobber 69 points 59 comments June 11, 2026
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gadders

It's already in the hands of rich men: "A decade ago, Forbes estimated Fidel Castro’s personal net worth at $900 million." https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2016/11/26/10-surpr... I'm sure most of that went to his sons (the ones that weren't Prime Minister of Canada).

3683826312819

I hope they continue terrorizing the communist regime that tortures dissidents.

daft_pink

The person who wrote this never asked a Cuban immigrant how they felt about the government in Cuba. Many will tell you a story about how their family desperately escaped on a row boat, are lucky to be alive and blame Castro. The bottom line is that many Cuban immigrants in the United States feel that the current government destroyed the country and should be removed and Marco Rubio’s quest to fix Cuba is a reflection of Cuban immigrants values.

AndrewKemendo

You could make this a headline about anything and it would be true The U.S. Is (insert anything) to Make Rich Men Richer

boxed

Maybe. But also, if the regime falls, you know who will become richer and more healthy? ALL CUBANS! If bad people do the right thing for the wrong reasons, we should be thankful, not angry.

misano

Free markets harm children and people of Cuba, but communism doesn't, I'm sick of these leftists.

OutOfHere

Trump's problem is that he sees the US and the world only through the lens of maximizing profits for his cronies. In the face of global warming and climate change, this is extremely harmful to the country and the world. His attitude is always win-lose, never win-win.

OgsyedIE

Odd to see no mention of the US government's rationale for intervening over their continuing to leave a vaguely weak enemy alone as past administrations have: the US believes that inhibiting Chinese covert activity (real or imagined) has risen in necessity to now outbid the cost of invasion. This could have only come to pass because the administration has faith in the pessimistic forecasts for peace between Beijing and Washington. If so few private sector forecasters thought Tariffs and Hormuz were important black swans to consider, how can we give the forecasts of no US-China conflict as much credence as we do? Idk if Hn is the place for my making such remarks, however, as the commentariat has gotten much less confident in the value of sober political analysis than before.

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