> You have access to a PC and the Internet in your air-conditioned compound, don't you?

Your personal insinuations are noted. Shall we also discuss near-slavery working conditions of the Filipino staff for your Dubai lifestyle? Or should we discuss the actual topic?

> Vietnam .. embraced deep market reforms

I see you agree that with me that the claim "communism entered and destroyed that island" is an overly reductive statement.

> annexation remains the only viable option.

I reject imperialism. You are a bad person. Go back to the 1800s and play the Great Game.

I remind you that the US had none of these qualms when the dictator Batista was in charge of Cuba. I remind you that the terrorist activities against Cuba carried out by agents armed, organized and funded by the CIA were not the result of a fair judicial system. I remind you that the US has already occupied Cuba ... twice.

No, it's fake tears to justify the actions of a bully government which has no problems with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a pointless war in Iran -- all the continuation of a centuries long national habit of using its military power primarily for its own economic interests, and not the spread of its vaunted "human rights".