• gumibo 🇰🇵@lemmygrad.ml
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    13 hours ago

    how come the United States would happily try to assassinate someone like Castro 600+ times but not try even once with Xi? Is it because it’s too late to change China’s trajectory?

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      13 hours ago
      1. They’re incompetent and they can’t get to him
      2. While they paint him as the devil the US economy depends on China. Imagine what would happen if any US assassination attempts on Xi were to reach media and China
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          tbf i don’t think the us is trying to kill miguel diaz-canel either. probably has to do with the fact that assassination isn’t generally super useful, at least not against established, stable nations

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            The empire is too greedy for even short-term profit, why make someone a martyr when you can martyr and occupy entire country to exploit forever? It was actually one of the reasons Cuba moved on to imprisonment post-revolution, because making your class enemies martyr unite them. Cuban revolutionaries used to just line class enemies against the wall. It was a little disagreement between Fidel and Che on execution because Fidel wanted to spare noncombatant enemies but Che said line them up.