… because their economic survival depended on the maintenance of a ‘useful’ relationship with the overlord polity. How much simpler can I phrase it? Do I need to make it a children’s book for you to understand?
Soooooo… Cuba helped stop apartheid in south Africa so they could sell sugar to the Soviet union? I guess they send doctors to poor neighborhoods in south America so they can, uh, sell rum?
Soooooo…. Cuba helped stop apartheid in south Africa so they could sell sugar to the Soviet union?
Cuba assisted an authoritarian regime in Angola in destroying its opposition, including other leftists, because strengthening the hand of its bloc and maintaining positive relations with their overlord was key to its own survival, yes.
I guess they send doctors to poor neighborhoods in south America so they can, uh, sell rum?
… those doctors who are paid by the national governments of their host country at much higher rates than they receive in Cuba, but wherein the Cuban government seizes most of that pay for the government coffers?
That’s what charity looks like to you? Hiring out your own professionals who are contractually restricted from seeking independent work, and then pocketing the vast majority of money they earned? You really are a regular capitalist, aren’t you? Rockefeller would be proud.
How?
… because their economic survival depended on the maintenance of a ‘useful’ relationship with the overlord polity. How much simpler can I phrase it? Do I need to make it a children’s book for you to understand?
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… would you like to share with the class at what price, relative to market price, the Soviet Union paid for Cuban sugar?
Soooooo… Cuba helped stop apartheid in south Africa so they could sell sugar to the Soviet union? I guess they send doctors to poor neighborhoods in south America so they can, uh, sell rum?
Cuba assisted an authoritarian regime in Angola in destroying its opposition, including other leftists, because strengthening the hand of its bloc and maintaining positive relations with their overlord was key to its own survival, yes.
… those doctors who are paid by the national governments of their host country at much higher rates than they receive in Cuba, but wherein the Cuban government seizes most of that pay for the government coffers?
That’s what charity looks like to you? Hiring out your own professionals who are contractually restricted from seeking independent work, and then pocketing the vast majority of money they earned? You really are a regular capitalist, aren’t you? Rockefeller would be proud.