Yes. We smoked out the rotten communists.

@zesty Yeah. Those pesky reds. Can't allow that. Keeping all their resources to themselves and not allowing US multinational companies to exploit the natives.

@Moravian Better if the resources go to China or Russia? At least the US gives back much more as economic aid.

@zesty If the proper price is paid i'm sure they are not too concerned where they go. China is pumping £billions into Africa in return for the continents natural resources. eg Namibia is benefiting greatly from the sale of uranium to China.

The socialist government would use air defense to shoot down the planes.

@zesty evidently they do have capable air defense systems. The answer then is still with the sanctions. Oh dear that would give Madura credit for feeding the people and then we wouldn't get our preferred person in charge. In other words it's not really about feeding the people.[militarywatchmagazine.com]

@Lorajay Name a country besides the US where the politicos worry about feeding the people.

@zesty it's obvious you know nothing about the social democracies in Europe

@Lorajay LOL. Lived in (it was called West Germany) for almost a year, just worked two months in Austria last year.

@zesty how many starving people did you see there?I've visited friends on Spain, Norway, Holland and England and didn't see anyone starving in any of those places. In every country I ask my friends to take me to the slums and interesting felt perfectly safe every place they took me.

@Lorajay There are a lot of people living at very low existential level. Perhaps not starving, but getting quite basic medical care, etc. As far as feeling safe in slums - try these days the Muslim ghettos. I don't think that you will feel safe!

Unfortunately the Cubans and the Chinese interfere with the people's wishes.

@zesty But they are not criticise like the Americans are.

We are now as close to perfect as it gets.

To some extent I agree. We need to modify our laws. Instead of economic sanctions we could just eliminate brutal dictators and just a few dozen or hundreds of leaders.

When was the last time you saw the leaders of Venezuela, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Syria, etc. invade, bomb, drone, use white phosphorous and depleted uranium on another country, and use military force to try to dictate to them how they should run their country?
The only "brutal dictators" are the ones in Washington.

@THHA Grozny deleted, Afghanistan, Syrian genocide, enough?

And you mean to say what? That is not what I would call a very coherent question.

@THHA These ate the communist crimes. Think!

Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but since World War II, the good US of A has invaded, bombed, murdered far more countries and peoples than any other country in the world. The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world . . . [en.wikipedia.org] So if you want to start blaming countries and communism, you are arguing a seriously lost cause. If capitalism is so great, they would not need to use FORCE to get countries to adopt it.

@zesty I think we're entitled to criticise their story so long as we accept it is their story and America should butt out, especially with its record for making things worse.

@brentan Some South American counties are flooded with Cuban and Chinese "advisors". We must counterbalance their criminal influence!

@zesty By all means, 'advise' countries but leave it at that.

@brentan These chinese and cuban advisors are the worst communist vermin. They don't advise, they only destroy if we let them.

@zesty They probably learned all they know from the CIA.

I was writing about Venezuela!

@zesty I know,...I just took it 2 steps further...

@MerlinZap The everyday Trump bashing! Boring.