He said that because it was obvious that the USA would impose an embargo on the island and force most of the world to follow it, it was Castro’s fault. He said that if Castro had his people’s best interest in heart, he would have caved against american pressure.
Boy do americans love victim blaming. It’s one of those bipartisan political and social values that we have.
Literally abuser’s logic. “If you want me to stop beating you and the kids, just behave the way I want. It’s for your own good”.
“Allowing America to be world police and isolate a sovereign country economically from food, medicine, and technology because we don’t agree with their economic system is fine actually.” - pro-intervention liberals
Liberals are quick to make victim-blaming, might-makes-right sorts of arguments when it comes to condemning communist countries and left-wing projects in general.
Like when you point out that failed socialist projects in Latin America failed in large part due to intervention from the US, and suddenly their argument becomes “If capitalism isn’t superior to communism/socialism, then why was a world superpower and richest nation on earth able to overcome these nations that had been impoverished colonies within the last few decades?”, literally the lib version of “If the whites aren’t the best race why’d they do the colonizing and the others got colonized?”.
That, coupled with their desire to hold and constantly proclaim a moral high-ground, makes them very annoying people.
This is very true however and as an example, we can look at Nicolás Maduro Moros and how he should have very much listened to los Estados Unidos. Many problems can be avoided if you listen to larger countries which spend so much on their militaries. If this had occurred, I would have been able to take my rightful place as interim presidente de Venezuela.
