Of course cuba lost an economic arm wrestling contest with the US. The fact that they lost doesn’t mean their foreign policy was invalid.

I’m mainly talking about how the GDP and quality of life indexes in Nicaragua were on the rise, thanks to Cuban proto-nation building, before we shat ourselves at a sucessful-looking second communist country in our backyard and let the proto-neocons fabricate the Sandinistas out of whole cloth. The Cubans were…

The cuban model was working well enough that the US had to fight 3 decades of proxy wars to knock it down.

Since you asked, take out assad and build roads n schools, Cuba style.

So big you can fit a whole Airbus inside it!

Ragusa’s making a comeback baby!

I don’t think you got the joke. The other guy said “do they even know what ISIS is doing to these people”?

Methane-dectector looks stable

“We” don’t buy oil there, multinational corporations do. But I agree with your point, as well as with OPs.

[Posh murmuring]

Oh come on now, there’s room for at least 3 more drop tanks in here.

Ok so based on all the pushback I did a smidgen of research. It turns out the “10,000” figure is apocryphal. The largest number I came across that seemed like serious scholarship guessed 8500 years, most of what I’m reading now seems to say 4000-6500 years ago.

This has to be saber-rattling. Warm water ports are Russia’s lifeblood. We don’t have to look back any further than 2015 to see Russia take expansionist military action to get their hands on a good year-round anchorage.

Super Entards still, huh? I remember reading about how washed up and antiquated they were, back in the 80’s.

“Rome as a concept” does not exist today. The whole dead language thing should be a hint. Ask someone who lives in Rome if he or she is a Roman citizen. I encourage you to do so because, because you’ll get punched in the ugly american face and I’m feeling a little testy with your pedantism at present. What is your…

I am trying to visualize your map:

So i guess this answers the question. No, Mike Pettine does not keep a revolver in a locked drawer of his desk for just such an occasion.

Oh come on, you couldn’t just use the tricolor filter on facebook like everybody else? Seriously though, what is that marking, now I’m curious.

China did not spring into existence fully formed in 1950!