 U.S. interventionism is never, ever, ever the solution. The imperial propaganda machine is blaring loudly about anti-government protests in Cuba after ignoring anti-government protests in Brazil, Haiti, Chile, and Colombia, which were much larger and often met with much harsher police responses. There is nothing surprising about this. The imperial media always ignore protests in member states while amplifying them in unabsorbed territories. But what is a bit surprising is how many calls we are seeing for U.S. military intervention in Cuba, despite the U.S. military's consistent and unbroken track record of always making things worse. The mayor of Miami went on Fox News to encourage the Biden administration to consider airstrikes and other military options. Right-wing pundit Kurt Schlichter is calling for an invasion to topple Havana, and former congressman Carlos Corbello is saying that Biden should keep all options on the table for acts of war. Participants in U.S. rallies against the Cuban government frequently voice support for military intervention. Which is of course bananas. It appears unlikely that any overt U.S. military action is on its way at this stage in the game. Most Americans don't even support the economic blockade on Cuba, much less airstrikes or an invasion, so we're not anywhere near that level of consent manufacturing at this time. But it's just amazing that this is an idea that's getting any traction at all. People who believe U.S. military intervention solves problems are as dumb as flat earthers but infinitely more destructive. It is always disastrous and it never achieves what its proponents claim it will achieve. Whenever I say this I always get one or two geniuses stepping in to say uh-huh I believe you are forgetting a little thing known as world war two. To such Einsteins I always say yes your mind burns with the brightness of a thousand galaxies but first of all that was an interventionism since the U.S. was attacked and Germany declared war on it immediately thereafter. More importantly though it's very telling that people have to reach all the way back through history to an age where the world was almost unrecognizably different from the world of today to even try and find an example of the U.S. military being used in a way that was not evil and disastrous. After Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc the facts are in and the case is closed. The interventionists have lost the argument. U.S. interventionism is always the wrong answer to every question unless the question is how do we destroy that country or how do we generate an obscene amount of wealth for obscenely horrible people. This was true last year when people were calling for regime change intervention in Iran. It was true the year before that when they were calling for regime change intervention in Venezuela. It is true now when they are calling for regime change intervention in Cuba and it will remain true when they call for regime change intervention in whatever their next target will be. The correct answer to what should be done about Cuba's problems is for the U.S. to end its cruel blockade. After that happens the correct answer to what should be done about Cuba's problems is none of your fucking business. Whenever the empire is targeting a socialist government you see public discourse get dragged into a debate about socialism versus capitalism. Capitalism proponents cite the economic hardships and ensuing protests and the country has evidence that socialism doesn't work. Ignoring both the crushing economic sanctions and the obvious fact that per their own logic protests and economic hardship in capitalist nations means capitalism doesn't work. Socialists fight back against this and it becomes a big loud back and forth which drowns out the much stronger and completely indisputable point that U.S. interventionism is literally always disastrous and literally never helpful. It's seriously the worst possible tool you could possibly use for any job. People only think you can solve problems by sending in the Marines because they've watched too many movies glorifying the U.S. military and depicting problems being solved by good guys with guns. A casual glance at America's history of interventionism immediately makes it clear that you'd have to be a pants on head fucking moron to believe it can help the Cuban people or anyone else. It's like trying to solve a math problem with a blowtorch. In every debate about whether or not to send in the U.S. military to a foreign nation you could just as easily substitute Godzilla and have the pro intervention side look just as rational. Look at all that poverty and unrest. I know it's terrible. You know what we should do? Please don't say send in Godzilla. We should send in Godzilla. No he always makes things worse you know that. Every time we try to send in Godzilla to try and solve problems in the world he just ends up trampling all over the city knocking down buildings and killing thousands of people with his atomic heat beam. Maybe this time would be different though. Why in God's name would this time be different? You said it would be different in Iraq and Libya in Syria. What happened there? He trampled all over the cities knocked down the buildings and killed people with his atomic heat beam. Exactly. So what makes you think sending in Godzilla would be any different this time? Well we can't just do nothing. Dude, doing nothing would be infinitely better than sending in Godzilla to do the thing he literally always does. Hey inaction has consequences too you know. You probably don't even talk to Cubans. My brother's co-worker's dentist is Cuban and he says a Godzilla rampage is exactly what they need. You should listen to Cubans. No matter how many Cubans I talk to it will still be an indisputable fact that Godzilla rampages are always disastrous and always make things worse. And it's not just Cuba. There is a push for interventionism in Haiti right now as well in the wake of President Jovenel Moisey's assassination. The Washington Post editorial board has called for swift and muscular intervention from the U.S. and United Nations despite swift and muscular intervention being precisely the cause of Haiti's problems. This would be less egregious than a full-on invasion since it's Haiti's de facto Prime Minister Claude Joseph asking for intervention. But there's substantial opposition to outside interference from Haitians who don't even recognize the authority of Joseph to extend such an invitation. In an even remotely sane world people promoting U.S. interventionism would be regarded the same as people who endorse genocide or oppose age of consent laws. It is only because we live our lives saturated in mass media propaganda that the madness of promoting something so consistently destructive and horrific is tolerated in polite society. U.S. military interventionism is never ever ever the solution. You're never going to make things better using something that always makes things worse. Virtually anything else would be better. It's amazing this even needs to be said.