Meanwhile the US is currently in the thrall of religious extremists…

No, they do belong… In padded cells.

Oh, but it is a threat - Cubans being happy and living in peace in their “socialist hellhole” while Americans are more afraid of being bankrupted by an ambulance ride than dying would destroy the illusion that capitalism works and bring about the reckoning the ruling class has evaded for too long.

bomb one of the world’s most viciously anti-gay regimes

Is that who they’re bombing? TIL schoolchildren, critical water infrastructure, and trans prisoners are “the Iranian regime”.

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” - James Baldwin