Bay of Pigs Invasion - US vs Cuba - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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[@pyeitme508]

Meh

[@BruceRheinstein]

@@pyeitme508 At least it's not Raid Shadow Legends.

[@accent1666]

Please talk about the Escambray rebellion

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@pyeitme508 western hypocrisy. The United States is still imposing economic sanctions on Cuba. Just to lie saying socialism failed

[@isaacabramovich2546]

You should do other Latin American countries, I think Brazil and Chile would be nice to here.

[@Knight860]

'Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

western hypocrisy. The United States is still imposing economic sanctions on Cuba. Just to lie saying socialism failed

[@Knight860]

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa I never said the United States were run by saints, the domino theory turned into a witchhunt.

[@user-xu9ji4dd4e]

@@Knight860 The demons are not led by the sons of the devil

[@lukehawkins7298]

🤓🤓🤓

[@Seouldrift7]

Yes, interested in more on the Escambray rebellion. And attempted invasion of Panama in 1959, and Bolivia in 1967, and Operation Pico in 1977, and Operation Urgent Fury in 1983.

[@helloworld0609]

Never heard about these. Please cover them.

[@Seouldrift7]

@@helloworld0609 Hope they will be covered.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

I will say iran crisis of 1946 is another overlooked event.

[@Seouldrift7]

@@ShubhamMishrabro Yes and also Paraguay in 1947.

[@GMP-Official]

Escambray part will be hard to tell…

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

I loved this episode! As soon as I saw the notification I was like, I need a cup of coffee and some free time to watch it. I’ve dispatched six cells to various locations in Eastern Europe and Central America to recover a cipher needed to uncover the last known whereabouts of a deep cover operative who has the Swiss Banking information needed to pay of three former FSB officers who each have a portion of the further encoded message to click the bell button. What could possibly go wrong.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

western hypocrisy. The United States is still imposing economic sanctions on Cuba. Just to lie saying socialism failed

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

The excellent visuals are extremely helpful, thank you!

[@mjstbnsn6294]

I would like to see an eventual story on Cuba's intelligence service, the DGI, I think one secret of Castro's long rule was his intelligence services work among the exile community in Miami, as a matter of fact I would like to see a story on those intelligence servivces other than the CIA, MI6 or KGB. (like the East Germans, Czechs and others)

[@Mjolknirn]

I IMPLORE you to listen to the Blowback podcast - genuinely the best podcast I've ever listened to. Season 2 is all about Cuba. 🇨🇺

[@flatlandtigress8685]

Okay, that is the best channel-themed subscription request I’ve heard in a decade. Mission accomplished.

[@johnsteiner3417]

I just love the bell button descriptions we get every time. 😁

[@Monatio79]

I shudder think what he might say when covering the Cuban missile crisis, especially given the current situation regarding Russia.

[@JohnSmith-jj2yd]

The graphic for the B-26's incorrectly use B-26 Marauders, not the A-26 (later redesignated B-26) Invaders. This is ironic as the visual distinction between the version provided by the CIA (solid nose) and the one used by the Cuban air force (glass nosed) was the thing that scuttled the deception, led to public humiliation and cancellation of the subsequent pre-invasion airstrikes.

[@sonye-jin6737]

Bruh

[@sahholsteins1]

🙄🙄🙄

[@kristianfischer9814]

To be fair, it wasn't nice of the Americans to have two B-26s.

[@andrewgordon235]

The B26 marauder was built by Martin aircraft now Lockheed Martin, the A26 invader was built by Douglas aircraft. The invader was the one used in the Bay of Pigs, right?

[@kungfuchimp5788]

First thing I noticed. 👍

[@basichistory]

I really enjoyed this video, well done.

[@mattgeorge90]

Excellent episode!

[@stacey_1111rh]

Excellent work

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

I would be very interested in learning about the Escambray Rebellion!

[@sofiaormbustad7467]

Me too, it's something I don't know much about

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely informative video

[@bikkiikun]

You're wrong about one thing... Cuba wasn't a close ally of the US. The Cuban government was.

[@gnas1897]

I'm sure the comments section will be incredibly peaceful and definitely not divided over this geopolitical event.

[@Tomi-oe5mz]

lol

[@chiensyang]

I will start the "peaceful" discussion. Left: _Long live the Cuban revolution! Down with the Imperialist Yankees and their ass-licking dogs!_ Right: _May the Cuban people free from thier communist shackles! Down with Bernie, AOC, and BLM pigs!_

[@jaydenclowers2616]

Great video

[@johnandrewmunroe]

Well done!

[@owenmichaels8220]

Very interested in the rebellion story!

[@deshaun9473]

Do one in the Escambray rebellion.

[@creatoruser736]

Funny how you closed with a Kennedy quote when the episode is about a humiliating failure that happened under his administration.

[@lainiwakura1776]

But it's not wrong.

[@user-xu9ji4dd4e]

@@lainiwakura1776 America, I do not sin, I only try slaves

[@ThatGuyWhoLivesinChina]

Nike-Hercules missiles (long range, high altitude) and Hawk missiles (short range, low altitude) were deployed to Florida shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis. I served at a Hawk site in 1977 and 1978. Their mission was to protect Homestead AFB.

[@seeleagent]

Nikes were no joke, especially the Nike sprint. we’ve had hypersonic missile tech since the 50s, imagine if we had kept and developed that tech further decades ago.

[@achistorian6978]

Do a video of the Escambray Rebellion, Seems a pivotal conflict in Cuba's history.

[@burnedbread4691]

I do love stories where the good guys win for a change

[@robertcairo2678]

You guys should do a video on the Escambray Rebellion. It is a little known fact that for the first years of the Revolution, the Castro regime was engaged in a long civil war--The Escambray Rebellion. This video would be an awesome collection to the cold war (Cuba) series. Can't wait!!!!

[@nyantakyibannor9328]

I second it!!

[@cubanreemachine9592]

Fun fact was that the Yankee general participated in the Escambray rebellion.

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

I just hope one day we can finally have more positive relations with Cuba. We are both just vibing. The embargo at this point is just out of spite

[@lainiwakura1776]

Maybe when Cuba is no longer Communist.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@@lainiwakura1776 👍

[@taln0reich]

@@lainiwakura1776 So, I'm not an american (and was born well after the end of the cold war), so I might not get this, but: why this condition? No, really, what would the negative consequences of ceasing the embargo while Cuba is a socialist state? The Idea that Cuba experiencing economic participating in trade would somehow cause an export in communist revolutions is iutterly preposterous, and the US has no problem trading with the PRC, which is also (at least on paper) socialist and is acting way more antagonistic, is way more of a threat and is way more autocratic. From where I stand, I fail to see what the point in the continued embargo against Cuba is, it just seems like a pointless remnant of a bygone era.

[@MariaCorrea-mr2gy]

@@taln0reich It never made sense to begin with. It's just imperial America rambling about a lost colony. The revolutionaries tried to had a somewhat neutral stance at the beginning, but hey, can't have a country defending its own interests over American ones since that is "anti-private ownership, anti-freedom" and so on.

[@berniekatzroy]

If they stop oppressing their own people.

[@zaeemameer8701]

Interested!

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Have you guys done videos on 1)Hundred Flowers Campaign 2)Iran crisis of 1946. Please do if you guys have not

[@Game_Hero]

1) is really funny for showing the self-censhorship present in Chinese society which would come to be justified when Mao cracked on those that did use the campaign to speak up against the party.

[@user-xu9ji4dd4e]

@@Game_Hero This America is one of the lies of the intelligence and I do not even believe them that they are stupid children

[@Game_Hero]

@@user-xu9ji4dd4e What are you talking about? What does it has to do with my comment?

[@cohara7516]

I remember reading the Cubans shot down a US airplane during bay of pigs. They have alleged parts of the wreckage at the revolution museum in Havana.

[@mmcinva]

I just visited that museum in Feb 2024, and they do have said wreckage. In addition, the 'Granma' is displayed behind glass, and they have the tank that transported Castro to Havana after Batista fled and the revolution had succeeded.

[@cohara7516]

@@mmcinva Visited that museum as well. One of the highlights of the trip.

[@johnlaudenslager706]

I'd like you to put something together on the escambray rebellion.

[@Flightlevel180]

I’m curious, is it the 250(the number)6th or the 25O(the letter)6th? If it the letter, does it have anything to do with the whole Soviet-Russia-October thing?

[@denjhill]

And then the conflict moved on to the big stuff, nukes. On the tail end of this I was stationed in south Florida with a nuclear missile group and to this day have nightmares about what could have been. Knowing that we easily had enough firepower to melt Cuba into radioactive glass it has become clear to me now as an old man that we must never, ever let tensions rise to this level again. Every man, woman and child on earth will suffer.

[@ARYAN-ms6gi]

Also make kings and generals modern warfare episodes for the sino indian war of 1962 , the second kashmir war or indo pak war of 1965 (largest tank battle after ww2), the liberation of bangladesh in 1971 (largest surrender after ww2) , the indian intervention in sri lankan civil war and the kargil war of 1999

[@Ed_in_Md]

That’s the best explanation of the Bay of Pigs I have ever heard. Thanks very much

[@Mr.Nichan]

It's interesting that you pronounce Spanish , , , and so authentically but still wrongly pronounce "Guevara" as if it were "Güevara", with a /gw/ at the beginning. It actually made me doubt if I was pronouncing "Guevara" right by assuming it was like normal Spanish spelling.

[@Franfran2424]

He pronounces a lot of names poorly. Covadonga was hard to listen. I mean, he did try, and some were fine, so its OK

[@QueueTeePies]

Heck yeah.

That was very intersting

[@RidgeWalletYT]

Forged Ember ftw 🔥

[@jonformella7973]

Very interested in the Escambray rebellion.

[@samtortell3680]

in the beginning he said castro became prime minister 1961 but really it was 1959 they got the month and day right so im pretty sure this is just a sort of typo but still something to take note of

[@RVA1954]

There’s no mentioned here of an attack at the airbase west of Havana which I lived through as a six year old boy. I would like to know more about that as well as the Escambray part of the story which I have never heard about. I left Cuba in 1969 in what was then known as the ‘Freedom Flights’. Thank you for the informative video.

[@jacobcholkur7773]

South Sudan PEOPLE Liberation Army commanders Were Trained in Cuba. Africa love Cuba.

[@Szydencer]

Cuban velociraptor advancing from the north at 18:00!

[@holyblee618]

I advise you friends after watching this video to listen to the song bay of pigs by the band civil war ❤️

[@alex4863]

I really do hope relations between US and Cuba turn for the better soon. It’s a beautiful country, and the sanctions it has on itself just pity from a decade grudge.

[@Karl-Benny]

The Problem is if you let Cuba trade freely it might Make USA look Poor with free schooling free medical and better life style and only a few miles from USA

[@yoloswaggins7121]

​@@Karl-Benny This is a ludicrous comment

[@HT-lr1rs]

​@@yoloswaggins7121it isnt really

[@yoloswaggins7121]

@@HT-lr1rs It absolutely is. The standard of living is much higher in the US than in Cuba and communist nations always have low standards of living. The USSR also had free education and fee healthcare but the standard of living was still much lower than in liberal democracies

[@CacklingAntagonist]

I would like to chip in and say I'd love to see a video about the insurrection after the Cuban Revolution

[@jaymudd2817]

LBJ did Dominican Republic in 1965.

[@ernestbatiy1070]

I love the way this channel tells the truth. The cold war wasn't good vs evil. It was empire vs empire

[@batTorah]

There’s a technical term for this kind of mission failure: CF

[@Mr.Nichan]

Who is Langley?

[@democracyboys]

Was gonna say something about his joke at the end but then realized my comment was overly complicated and relied on multiple necessary contingencies in order to press the post button

[@AA-mf3om]

interested about the escambray story

[@muhammadisadaud4399]

I have a suggestion why you don't discuss the brazil coup in 1964?

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Gore Vidal in his "Palimpsest" memoirs referred to JFK reacting to complaints by Brazilian President Quadro that he had been subject to unfair US pressure. JFK said it was untrue and that if there was one place the USA had operated by the rulebook, it was Brazil. Vidal read Kennedy's remarks as an admission that there were places where the USA had not operated in an aboveboard fashion.

[@carlosharris8817]

A Comedy of Errors describes the failed Bay of Pigs Operation. The CIA, and the CIA alone, is responsible for the failure of the invasion. They were given complete control of the operation from organising, equipping, to training the invasion force. The operation should have been given to the U.S. military or its covert branches. The U.S. military had the assets and resources that CIA lacked for a successful operation. For example, Instead of the U.S. Navy transporting the troops to the Bay of Pigs, the troops were put on fruit and banana boats that quickly sank upon hitting rocks and other obstacles in the bay. The troops had to slowly wade through neck deep water until they could get to shore. The CIA had planned a conventional amphibious assault, but without the assets and manpower to be successful. It was also just too small a force to establish a beachhead. Another operational failure was not destroying all of Castro’s airforce. The planes that escaped destruction were able to sink or drive off the supply ships supporting the invasion force. Nor did the CIA inform the troops that there was a Plan B if Plan A failed. Plan B was to escape into the Escambray mountains and jungles and begin guerrilla operations. Without such orders the troops waited at the beachhead to be killed or captured. Above all else, the CIA failed as an intelligence agency in its assessment of the political situation. The majority of Cubans were not anti-Castro or anti-revolution enough to rise up, or support a guerrilla campaign, the whole premise of the operation, The CIA may be good at espionage, but proved to be poor at executing military operations like the Bay of Pigs. The results were operational failures due to ‘piss poor prior planning,’ and a lack of attention to details that the US military would not have overlooked. So do not blame President Kennedy, or make similar partisan attacks. Put the blame where it really belongs. CH

[@padawanmage71]

I wonder what the military thought of Pres. Kennedy's hesitancy on providing support for the operation?

[@user-xu9ji4dd4e]

Damn America can't even defeat Vietnam, which is divided into three countries, what is wrong with that?

[@zanenobbs352]

Please look more into this. Recently, President Eisenhower is being revised for blame in Cuba and Vietnam, both the initiatives of President Kennedy. The lack of logic in both instances does not fit the parameters of a 5-star general who won WWII in Europe. Each does fit a new administration with little to no experience in this area.

[@frankieseward8667]

Indeed. He made a grave error in allowing Castro to be leader. And more importantly he choose to stop supporting Batista but failed to find a suitable leader

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

western hypocrisy. The United States is still imposing economic sanctions on Cuba. Just to lie saying socialism failed

[@zanenobbs352]

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa Where has Socialism succeeded, Genius?

[@zanenobbs352]

@@lolshark99b49 That's your opinion. For some reason, my feeling is that you weren't around back then.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@zanenobbs352 make a country unable to trade and then you say the government failed. United States propaganda is too strong for fools

[@sebastianucero7535]

It never fails to amaze me how even narrating the actions of a sepoy, terrorist forces created by the CIA as heroic. Even mention the cuban forces as "militias, revolucionaries" 2 years had passed since the expulsion of US drug cartels and mafia rulers of the island, cuban forces where the military (the same that protect the island today) of a sovereign state. The revolucionary period was over in JAN1,1959. This attack against a sovereing state by the USA was just another step in the terrorist wave of the CIA against the free people of the world. Good video. Great work, weird narrative. But is the prism you use i guess.

[@sadestoniaball9086]

Yeah communist regimes were so free they had to lock people in to prevent them from fleeing

[@Jack-su4sz]

If you never a book or are closed minded then believe everything the regime tells you. I’m sure Cuba under Castro isn’t a Utopia. They had there privileges as many authorian regimes the people not do much.

[@ShadowPhoenixMaximus]

Communism is a plague

[@giorgosgkialpis1394]

@@Jack-su4sz you are a genius! Definitely a genius!

[@firefox5926]

@@Jack-su4sz which regime are you talkign about the amrican one or the cuban one ?

[@thezzzaappp]

Kinda an odd choice to use the JFK quote for this particular episode isn’t it?

[@ftargle-bargle6974]

Great video! And yes, please do a video on the anti-Castro insurgents.

[@reneroux2391]

They failed spectacularly

[@vee2easy]

ussr collapsed, guantanomo exists, usa is empire. (not a failure)

[@maxanderson9293]

@@vee2easy empire lol

[@reeyees50]

Absolutely no one in Cuba calls it Bay of Pigs. Playa Giron

[@cubanreemachine9592]

no it was also called Bahia de Cochino and that was the translation while i get the confusion you are wrong.

[@reeyees50]

@@cubanreemachine9592 i meant in cuba, the whole invasion is called something else. The insistance of the American media and historians refering to the event as bay of pigs is to propagandize the word pigs in the translation. I mean the pigs where the Americans right, and they landed on the bay.

[@cubanreemachine9592]

@@reeyees50 No it is nothing to do with Pigs. The location was in bay of pigs which is the bay on which the main force attacked. Also it was not the Americans that attacked but the Cuban exiles that were called "miami mafioso" that did the invasion not the Americans. Look at a map and you will see playa giron. Inbetween playa giron and ernst thalmann and the zapata swamp. Inn the middle of that is the entrance to playa larga which is called bahia de cochinos. It is not american propaganda.

[@reeyees50]

@@cubanreemachine9592 i know, i compared the insistance of americans naming the whole event after that with pigs. I know the name is bahia de cochinos (pigs) in spanish. HOWEVER the CUBAN PEOPLE living in CUBA reject naming the invasion after that name , and instead use the alternate name PLAYA GIRON. So many times, turist from United States and other places in the western hemisphere, ask the guides about visiting the BAY OF PIGS, they have no idea what is that. Why? Because in CUBA they call bay of pigs, PLAYA GIRON which happens to be its most commonly used name. SO WHY THE FUC AMERICANS KEEP INSISTING ON USING THE ALTERNATE NAME WITH PIGS IN THE NAME???? BECAUSE ITS SUBLIMINAL PROGPAGANDA

[@cubanreemachine9592]

@@reeyees50 it had nothing to do with translation. Cochino means pig in english. Cuban exile/Americans called it that because they landed on the bay. The Cuban government never called it that because they perceived it as invasion into playa giron. In history it always happens where two sides call the battle by different names. The north during the civil war called the battle of bull run and the south called it battle of massasas. the south used to determine the name of a battle by man-made structures near the battle while the north called by the location geographically.

[@adrianroman7191]

Guys your videos are great but there is one little mistake in this one, the flag shown at 7:18 is the flag from El Salvador, not guatemala ;)

[@luanfonseca5179]

I hope for more videos on latin america.maybe one over brazil

[@davidjohansson1459]

Yes I am interested in the rebellion.

[@erikthorne6966]

Have you heard of the conspiracy theory that Lee Harvey Oswald went after JFK because of the poor execution of this mission?

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Embittered Cuban exiles have been considered among the suspects - they felt betrayed.

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Ayo

[@chad12345678]

I want to hear the story of the rebellion I had no idea about this!

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Overlooked because it was ultimately defeated. Victory having a thousand fathers while defeat is an orphan, and all that.

[@genghiskhanthegreat2986]

Please put Escambrai rebellion

[@ARYAN-ms6gi]

That too happened in 1961

[@ARYAN-ms6gi]

Liberation of Goa and Portuguese possessions in India

[@ARYAN-ms6gi]

Guys , the liberation of Goa and other Portuguese possessions in India for the next video please ....

[@mrmr446]

The idea that Cuba was in any way a threat to the US always struck me as farcical.

[@kristianfischer9814]

Domino Theory is a hell of a drug.

[@Game_Hero]

3:55?

[@BTScriviner]

Blame the hatred and fear of communism fron US politicians and military.

[@Game_Hero]

@@BTScriviner Just the overall people, including the Cuban diaspora.

[@mrmr446]

@@BTScriviner I do but can't help but find it astonishing that 'US fears Cuba' can be said as if it's obvious with no questions.

[@ariel340]

JFK really blew it with his "overly spectacular" point of view.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Basically he wanted to keep the US role to a minimum as the optics of the USA throwing its weight about do not look good, although some later US governments were less bashful.

[@deshaun9473]

"Cuba a threat? 80 million Mexicans would die laughing?"

[@frankreno2768]

The initial bombing did NOT take out 50% of Cuban air force . Double agents had informed Castro of imminent invasion and Castro scrambled the air force . Best estimate is 20-25 % were taken out .

[@fatkungfu5088]

☑️ SUBSCRIBED!!! 🌎🌍🌏

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Informative & enjoyable Video allot Thanks for sharing ..(Cold war ) always sharing interesting & Informative Videos such as this Video ..its First times I heard about Escambray Mountains &117 Militant counter-revolutionary Groups at that time for 6 years that Proved Half of Cuban Population were not Silent -Neutral ..against a new Cuban Regime. It seems to Me US policy was not Serious didactics to Removing Havana Communist Regime While US Policy was Seriously Economically Punished Cuban Population for 30 Years & Exploited Communist Cuba in Carrebian sea for its Dominant amongst Cuban Neighbors Countries

[@brianjones7660]

Soviet Aid punished them for 30 years, they never reopened the labor unions and small businesses that were devoured by Fidel's policy.

[@beepboop204]

🙂

[@russellgardener126]

Not only did the US fail to remove Fidel from power, but now his son is the Prime Minister of Canada 😀

[@Thermopolis11]

What the fuck?

[@captharis747]

Want that fallout key chain

[@MariaCorrea-mr2gy]

A good day for the self-determination of the Cuban people.

[@Game_Hero]

Indeed, no country should ever live a military invasion by a neighbouring country.

[@cjclark1208]

Very much so, greetings from the US.

[@lucutes2936]

You know the leader is amazing when USA wants to get rid of it, like Gadaffi, Castro and Hussein. Typical Western move.

[@Game_Hero]

@@lucutes2936 these leaders were horrible strongmen dictators with a paranoia complex. Guatemala however...

[@lucutes2936]

@@Game_Hero if you rule good enough so that all people can get a shelter and food then what's the reason for someone like US to interfere? These leaders were ruthless towards the oppressors, not the simple civilians.

[@wilhelmheinzerling5341]

07:08 Do not mean to be that person, but the B26 Bomber was codenamed the "Marauder", not the "invader". Great Video! Keep it up!

[@TheColdWarTV]

The Martin B-26 Marauder was retired in 1947 and the Douglas A-26 Invader had its designation changed from A-26 to B-26 making it the B-26 Invader. Same name, but different aircraft.

[@landongsi]

Eisenhower looks like a fish in the video

[@Mr.Nichan]

0:40 "terrible national security operations" What are you talking about? It was great a national security operation ... for Cuba, and it's not like Cuba actually poses as much of a threat to the US as vice versa.

[@jacobcholkur7773]

In South Sudan. Thousands are named Fidel. A leader. Fidel Is named by commandos trained Cuba. South Sudan

[@leemblake]

Cuba would have made more sense that others if you were going by closeness compared to half way around the world

[@rodairliner9138]

idk man but the operation mongus tho...

[@altaccount3394]

14:49

[@jadenhiggins7167]

Great video but Didn't no American personal took place in the invasion not even air support

[@stevekaczynski3793]

The air strikes were by US crews in many cases. At least one killed American was CIA-affiliated and given the Intelligence Star posthumously, decades later.

[@beorntwit711]

Really questionable reasoning from Kennedy. If aliens invaded Cuba, US would have still been blamed. To sacrifice chances of success for that mirage... Still, can't feel too bad about the Brigade. Seeing their socioeconomic composition, and what had happened in Guatemala, its doubtful Cuba would have fared much better.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Havana Radio broadcast reports about how wealthy the families of the prisoners they captured at Giron were.

[@jacobcholkur7773]

Anyanya and SPLA

[@matthewreed4936]

Ships named Houston, Lake Charles, Barbara J … hmmm interesting (Read my lips …)

[@ThatGuyWhoLivesinChina]

How about that Nike video?

[@marianotorrespico2975]

ON THE POSITIVE SIDE | In the event, what matters is that the Communists liberated Cuba from foreign enslavement at home, and remain a sovereign nation in charge of their country, their economy, and themselves. The invasion failed because the Cuban majority sided with being Cuban, and not a hyphenated serf.

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

Yep. Let them suffer collectively in communism.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@AnthonyEvelyn - SAYS WHO? | The Cubans have repeatedly rejected capitalist wage-slavery for more than half a century, and yes, the Cubans suffer with not being exploited by management, with their national healthcare (sick people do not die on the streets, like in the USA), and their national education sustem (more Cubans are literate than are Americans) and that is all you can say? Those lame lies whereby foreigners "speak" for the Cubans, because reasons of propaganda.

[@Thermopolis11]

@@AnthonyEvelyn A trillion dollar embargo isn't "Letting them suffer", it's "Enforcing suffering upon them"

[@brianjones7660]

@@Thermopolis11 no embargo exists. No nation on earfh is withholding anything Cuba wants to buy for the people...Canada will do it today!

[@Thermopolis11]

@@brianjones7660 I've genuinely never heard such a stupid statement in my life. No embargo exists? Literally type in "US embargo Cuba" to Google. It's not that difficult you goddamned geriatric

[@BeefLettuceAndPotato]

Quick reminder only The US and Israel think the embargo should continue whereas every other country in the world has condemned it, friend and foe alike.

[@brianjones7660]

and so they are buying what they need from the world. Embargo is over, thanks.

[@BeefLettuceAndPotato]

@@brianjones7660 that's not how that works, and you're genuinely not smart if you think so.

[@Game_Hero]

I preffered the old intro. Perhaps just put a retro TV frame around it?

[@douglassauvageau7262]

Listening to any Latin American broadcast covering even the most inconsequential soccer contest suggests a popular appetite for bombast. Fidel appealed to that appetite.

[@cezardan01]

I'm sorry. due to too many things going wrong at the same time the overly complicated plan failed and I was unable to press the bell button. :P

[@jimmyteerex2177]

You can't pussyfoot around an attempted invasion. They should've mixed in US soldiers with the Cuban freedom fighters, properly supplied them and given experienced, capable officers command. The failure of the operation was a failure of command, logistics and planning, not a failure of the heroic men who risked their lives to overthrow a maniac dictator who kept the country in the grip of fear and poverty for the rest of his miserable life.

[@AxelPoliti]

Ever considered the working hypothesis that JFK wanted the invasion to fail?