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    I guess our definitions of success are vastly different. I have Cuban friends and they left because the situation is intolerable due to the sanctions. Over 1m Cubans have left since the pandemic. I come from a country that was occupied for hundreds of years. Now our government is complicit with the occupiers. Venezuela just got usurped in an evening. Russia is a fascist shithole. Only China has managed to have any kind of coherent strategy to combat this by weaponising the greed that built the system against it. You see where I’m going with this. Having the weekend off isn’t a victory. It’s a bare minimum and not worth celebrating. Women are still treated like shit. Success isn’t being allow work for the man whilst maintaining the expectation to also raise a family. The common man is so completely and utterly outplayed at the moment.

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      3 days ago

      you can’t take on iran now though can you? can you do the same to china? lost to yemen and even vietnam.

      ooo they are terrorizing a tiny defenseless island! whatever can we do!

      again, your problem is that you don’t want it. bother to inconvenience yourself a little bit to fight for something and not even cuba would be bullied.

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          i mean, who is really oppressing cubans and provoking iran? who is it that can’t take on even russia by proxy?

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            Right but they can waste enough resources to prevent development catching up with them which is exactly what they are doing.

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                Have you seen the photos of Gaza? Bridges in Iran etc … Tehran was covered in a layer of oil rain when they blew up the refinery. That’s plenty of cancer and illness for future generations.

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                    Yes they are in terms of wasting Iran’s resources on rebuilding existing infrastructure rather than progressing. Same in Europe tbf. They have European governments fighting amongst themselves due to artificially created crises such as energy and migrants. It seems to me you are underestimating them.