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Old 08-15-2015, 09:23 PM   #16
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Default Re: US Embassy in Cuba

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Originally Posted by jledou View Post
Along this front I will just say that's not always the case.


It's not always the case with Europe, either.

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Actually, the Chinese did, in 1949...what finally opened the gates was that they agreed to pay a percentage (around 50% or so?) of the value from that time.
Well, there ya go; they offered to make good, at least partially, while the Cuban "government" continues in their attempts to extort us further. At least the ChiComs made better effort along those lines than most debtors in U.S. bankruptcy court. Of course they had to, communism as an economic system doesn't work; you eventually run out of people who can pay for everything because there is no incentive for people to produce and achieve. All communism is evil; it's the Industrial Age's version of feudalism.
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