(01-07-2026, 02:17 PM)727Sky Wrote: Exciting times; is Cuba next ?
Whoa! That was news to me. I knew that we killed some Cubans in Nicaragua and Angola, but the Cuban involvement especially in Nicaragua before the fall of Somoza was never made public, so you never heard anything about it in the news. Everybody knew the Cubans were in Angola, though - it's just that no one knew how vulnerable they were or what piss-poor fighters they were. Now here they are saying right out loud that they killed 32 Cubans on a Venezuelan military base protecting El Jefe. Well, TRYING to protect him, anyhow.
In Nicaragua, no one here in the US knew the Cubans were there because Jimmy Carter didn't want that getting out. It might have complicated his alleged "foreign policy" for people to realize the Cubans were supporting the same guerrillas he was.. It might have let the cat out of the bag that a lot of the guerrillas were communists rather than just run of the mill "freedom fighters" like Carter was trying to bill them as.
After Somoza fell, and Reagan got in office here, well, then there were some whispers about the Cubans being there to support the new Sandinista regime, but they made it sound like the Cubans had just then hit the beach.
Dayum! The wheel just keeps a-turning!
It would be nice to see Cuba finally fall. Nice to see the casinos come back, and the cigar trade flowing again.
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― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake