Poland was not liberated because of easy trade policies by the West, but by the courage of Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement, along with the Catholic Church. South Africa’s apartheid regime was actually the target of trade restrictions by the West, not easy trade policies. People like you simply don’t understand what goes on in totalitarian countries. The people there may know very well that the outside world is freer and wealthier, but that does them no good. The govt. has all the guns, the gulags, and other weapons to stay in power. Trade simply entrenches the elite.
Watch the ad hominem. Look, we see in North Korea that trade restricitons do nothing. You can starve the country all you want, but the leader still eats well.
All I'm saying is that the past 50 years in Cuba has done absolutely nothing; maybe we ought to try something different.
Thanks. The revisionism on here is ridiculous. Solidarnosc!