What need do you have of ICBMs?
Posted on 03/21/2020 7:47:38 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
China is partnering with Cuba, to invade the southern Western hemisphere. China bribes corrupt South American government officials, establishes economic beachheads, then when poor countries default, China takes actual ownership of supposedly "sovereign" South American territories, vital ports and transportation centers.
Please indicate to the President whether or not you would favor active resumption of The Monroe Doctrine signaling to non-American powers that Uncle Sam will not tolerate their incursions into South America and Central America. It's easy to contact the President at the White House contact page, just a few clicks, just a simple message like "keep China out of the Western Hemisphere".
"China helps Cuba out of its economic crisis with subsidies and Cuba provides its archipelago to be its (China’s) command post in the Americas.” (Chinadialogue, Nov. 19, 2019)
"Cuba to attract more Chinese visitors with versatile appeal: The number of Chinese visitors to Cuba has in recent years risen to 50,000. Cuban tourism authorities hope to see 4.5 million foreign visitors in 2020, up by 200,000 from 2019, including thousands more from China.”
“Italy links coronavirus outbreak to Chinese tourists. The coronavirus outbreak spreading across Europe has been linked to two Chinese tourists who fell ill with it in Italy in January after flying from Wuhan.” (The UK Times)
And yet passenger flights between the U.S. and Havana, Cuba, remain unaffected by any travel bans, emergency or otherwise, while those to and from China and Italy have been long shut down.
Now, Cuba claims only 19 confirmed coronavirus cases, and claims most of them consist of Italian tourists, while 523 people on the island, including 159 foreigners, remain hospitalized and under tests.
Let’s just say such figures—like any figures that are issued from that Stalinist fiefdom—are “suspect.”
Let’s look at some recent history for examples of official Cuban “misrepresentation" regarding medical matters:
“Infected Travelers Reveal Cuba’s Hidden Zika Outbreak” was the Science Magazine (not exactly a Cuban exile scandal sheet with “an-axe-to-grind”) title back in August:
“A new analysis of Zika-infected travelers who returned to the United States or Europe in 2017 or 2018 has found that 98% had visited Cuba, which did not report any cases to world health officials at the time the country’s outbreak apparently peaked."
“It was startling,” says Kristian Andersen, a genomic epidemiologist at Scripps Research in San Diego, California, who led the work conducted by 38 researchers from five countries. The group estimates that Cuba had 5707 unreported cases, with most occurring in 2017. (The year, by the way, when Obama’s “opening” made U.S. travel to Cuba very chic--and very important to the Stalinist regime’s coffers, especially those of the secret police and military who majority own Cuba’s tourism infrastructure.)
“Of 91 travel-associated Zika cases identified in Florida from June 2017 to October 2018, the team found that all but one infected individual was returning from Cuba. …Likewise, 63 of 64 travel-associated cases caught in Europe during that time frame involved travel to Cuba. Cuba’s unrecognized [no--it was fully recognized by the Stalinist regime which kept it hush-hush!] Zika outbreak may have “silently” spread the virus to other parts of the world and continues to infect international visitors today.” (Zika News)
“This was an unexpected finding,” explained that auxiliary to Castro’s press agency named The New York Times (actually, not unexpected at all by people who understand how the Castro regime operates!) "Cuba has a sophisticated public health system,” stressed the straight-faced New York Times, “and it had seemed to be winning the war against Zika, apparently avoiding the outbreaks seen on other Caribbean islands.” (Another blatant lie.)
“Officials at P.A.H.O., an arm of the World Health Organization,” continued a straight-faced New York Times, “blamed the failure to publish timely data on the Cuba outbreak on a “technical glitch.”
Fine. Let’s review some these Castroite “technical glitches” in action, shall we:
A few years ago Cuban doctor Dessy Mendoza was on the phone with a Miami radio station reporting an outbreak of dengue fever in eastern Cuba—suddenly KGB-trained police stormed his house and arrested him. He was charged and sentenced for “spreading enemy propaganda.”
Totalitarian Cuba’s “Law of National Dignity” mandates jail sentences of three to 10 years for “anyone who, in a direct or indirect form, collaborates with the enemy’s media.”
Here’s an example of another Castroite “technical glitch":
A few years ago Katherine Hirschfield, an Oklahoma University doctoral candidate, undertook a study of Cuba’s vaunted healthcare—but as a participant rather than as regime-escorted “scholar” (i.e. propagandist). Her plan was to live for a year with a Cuban family in Cuba’s second largest city of Santiago.
Typical of “scholarly” studies that include a visit to Cuba, scholar Hirschfield admits that: “My project was intended to document and highlight Cuba’s achievements in Social Medicine.” (Hence her lightning-quick visa clearance).
Shortly after settling in with her Cuban hosts, Hirschfeld was shocked to find her neighborhood full of Cubans suffering from dengue fever—though she had never heard of this epidemic while in the U.S.
But upon every inquiry to the Castroite authorities (which included most of the doctors in the area) she was self-righteously harangued to the effect that dengue—though rampant during the unspeakable Batista era—had been eradicated by the glorious Revolution shortly upon its triumph! She was obviously imagining things. Ministry of Truth had spoken.
(Actually: In pre-Castro Cuba, Zika—along with all the tropical diseases that periodically ravage Castroite Cuba from Zika to Chikungunya to Hepatitis A to West Nile Virus —were virtually unknown. )
Soon Hirschfield caught dengue fever herself and was ushered into a crowded and typically filthy clinic that was swarming with mosquitoes and guarded by soldiers. The crowded conditions owed to the obvious epidemic of dengue fever then ravaging eastern Cuba—and still being denied by the authorities (and being unreported by the “news” bureaus with their “intrepid investigative reporters” so graciously hosted by Castro). The ubiquitous armed and vigilant soldiers (i.e. “technical glitches”) were evidence of the Stalinist regime’s craving to keep the epidemic secret.
Infected herself, and in a filthy hospital crammed to suffocation with Cubans suffering horribly from the disease, Katherine Hirschfeld took a cue from Groucho Marx and finally decided to believe her eyes rather than Castro’s Ministry of Truth.
A desperate Hirschfield tried phoning her family from Cuba to inform them of her plight. Immediately armed soldiers (i.e. “technical glitches”) grabbed her and prevented the call.
For some reason when Michael Moore, CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, etc. etc. etc. visit Cuba to extol the marvels of Cuba’s Potemkin healthcare to the world they never run into any “technical glitches." Funny, isn't it?
Resumption? I didn’t know it was suspended. Also, the MD seems to be more concerned with colonization than trade, but Kennedy and Reagan used it to also limit “influence” in Central and South America.
Too late. Joan Weston has passed.
“...sure solidified what it could be like under communism...”
Not even close.
We’re still armed to the teeth.
Grocery store shelves are still stocked and will continue to be stocked.
Drug stores are open and functioning as normal; any meds you need, you can still get and will be able to for the foreseeable future.
We have an American in the White House finally, who is doing all he can to help mitigate this overblown manufactured crisis.
This isn’t even anywhere CLOSE to life under communism.
My neighbor across the road came here from Poland. He can tell you exactly what life was like under the commie bastards. He’s been here since the 1980s.
I took him to get his first handgun not too long ago, and then helped him with the carry license process. You should have seen the expression on his face.
This is just an inconvenience right now, and it will blow over.
I thought this was about the Panama Canal.
That would be awesome to get the Monroe doctrine back. Everyone forgets the other part of the Monroe doctrine that we would stay out of that Euro part of the world. That would be nice if we stayed out of the Middle East and Europe. The hell with those people, we have ICBMs if we need them
The Monroe Doctrine ceased viability the instant it became possible to transfer funds across the internet.
Why invade when you can pay people to overthrow?
We haven’t used or threatened force to outside influences for years under utopian Kumbyyar visions of globalization.
The biggest surrender of the Monroe doctrine was when the Chinese took over the Panama canal as “managers” of canal and ports. Talk about surrendering a crucial chokepoint. I can’t even imagine that happening—but it did.
The Soviet Union killed itself from its long fruitless war in Afghanistan and its terrible economy and demoralizing treatment of its people.
Vietnam was a disaster. All it did was give the sex-drugs-and-rockNroll crowd a "see we told you so" moment. We didn't fare much better in Angola or in the many South American and Central American countries that went socialist or communist with or without our open or CIA-led opposition.
America is still having to live down the assassination of Allende. And the influence of the "Chicago School" in Chile is sporadic at best.
We don't need yet another neocon intervention in yet another part of the world. We need to get out of Afghanistan, out of the Middle East and out of Central and Southern America.
We should continue to work with and trade with countries that generally share our political and economic values and keep an arm's length from those that don't.
China's influence in South America will ultimately fail because China is a mobster led monopoly pretending to be capitalist. Either their socialist policies or their out-and-out corruption will damn them and their surrogates.
Western Imperialism “is bad”
Communist imperialism “is good”
Actually, that's not correct. Is run and managed by the ACP board, whose members are all Panamanian. However, the ports at Balboa and Cristobal at either end of the canal are managed by the Chinese.
That won’t happen so long as China owns our debt.
OK. Actually, a smart enemy wouldn’t want to sabotage the canal locks because that would take too long to rebuild and be very expensive.
However, if They only control the ports at each end is a potentially powerful tactical chokepoint and enough to cause my concern.
Agreed.
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