alt Hacker News>Trump Says He Will Have the ‘Honor’ of ‘Taking Cuba’
>President Trump’s words came amid a nationwide blackout and as a top Cuban official said his country would move to open the economy to foreign investors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/cuba-us-fo...
Turns out you can't escape the free market societies because those societies can't tolerate others.
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WalterBright • last Tuesday at 7:49 PM
Free market countries build walls to keep people out, socialist countries build walls to keep their citizens from fleeing.
It's strange - if we're so confident that our ideology is superior then wouldn't we welcome a small neighbor on our doorstep trying something different as a sort of experiment expected to reaffirm our views? Celebrate them the way you might a silly child, occasionally support them, all while pointing to them as an example of why we don't do what they're doing.
Unless of course we fear they might succeed.