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14. Trump will never allow Iran to have a democratic country

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and there are American politicians who agree with that view. They want a dictator that they can control, like the Shah was and like exists now in Venezuela. Trump wants to do the same with Cuba. He is OK with a dictator in Cuba, but it must be a RW dictator like the corrupt RW Batista who the US supported prior to Castro. It was the cruelty of life under Batista that led to the Cuban revolution that installed Castro. It was the hair-brained CIA Bay of Pigs operation that drove Castro into the Comminist arms of the Soviet union.

It's an old RW playbook in the US. Set up a dictator to control for US business interests. JFK tried to stop that pattern and to establish diplomacy and good will in 3rd world countries through programs like the Peace Corp. That sort of thing is too subtle and does not have enough macho showmanship for a shallow thug like Trump and his gang of thugs.