Once upon a time:

[underlankers]

There was a country that had grown great and mighty on the basis more of its military power than anything else there was particularly to note about it. Officially this country was pledged to making the world a better place, to removing injustice. This country had a neighbor to the south that it had a vested interest in controlling and which as

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[rimpala]

Please don't be Germany, please don't be Germany...

Oh? Ok, yeah. I always thought the embargos on Cuba were overly harsh, the United States wanted to set out to proove that a Communist country can't survive, but instead proved that an island nation can't enter the modern world if it's in isolation.

I'm over, far over demonizing Communism, Democracy and all players in the Cold War. To make good guys and bad guys out of it is to be simplistic to me, Cuba has good people in it that was caught in the crossfire of our political pissing contests.

[underlankers]

Actually I was referring to much more than just the Cold War. The USA had aggressive designs on Cuba all the way back from the Ostend Manifesto and multiple filibustering (when that meant essentially privatized guerrilla forces led by Right-Wing Che Guevaras) attempts were made on it. The Teller Amendment was the 'request' made, and the Old Man in question was both Spain and the system it had constructed.

[rimpala]

Probably had a lot to do with utter disrespect towards both Hispanics and the Afrio-Cubans. It was all about the white man taking over everything back then.

[existentme]

Well, regardless which country or region, I do believe we have a winner in the "geopolitical bad touch" analogy.

[harry_beast]

Large countries beat up on their weaker neighbours, and this has been going on since time immemorial. The problem you have identified is imperialism, not democracy. This sort of behaviour is hardly unique to the United States, nor is it confined to democratic countries. In fact, Cuba, in spite of its non-democratic credentials, hasn't been above messing around in other countries like Grenada and Angola.

[gunslnger]

Seriously. The oddity is someone thinking that a democracy somehow magically fixes all the woes that come from people being in charge of others even though it still has people being in charge of others.