Well, the various Banana Wars topped out with around 2500 troops landed.
That would work as well as supporting Castro did. You'd have to believe the Viet Minh weren't Communists, and could be talked out of wanting a one Party Marxist State.
I don't have much interest in totaling up the figures in an exercise irrelevant to the topic. I will note that the Dominican invasion eventually totaled 40,000 American soldiers and marines, more than the Hungarian intervention. Since the Soviets used 31,500 troops in suppressing the Hungarian revolution, I suppose they were more morally righteous in that instance than the Americans in the Dominican Republic. If it is interesting enough to you, you can total the figures up as you did with the Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and tell us. But, please explain why the number of divisions counts matters much when comparing military interventions in spheres of influence similar to Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
The Banana Wars ended in 1934.
Did the CIA not recruit and train Brigade 2506 along with US military, did US planes not bomb Cuba, etc.?
A domestic minority can impose a tyranny over the people. Moralistic idiots, who embrace the dictatorship of the Proletariat are as dangerous to liberty, as right wing generals. Those idiots seek a deeper control of the minds, and lives of the people, and also do more damage to the economy then your typical corrupt despot. Those Marxist idiots will also ally their country with other anti Imperialist powers, in the world wide struggle for the good of the Proletariat, weather they want it or not.
The problem was more American planes should have bombed Cuba, or I should say Castro's Army, and Air Force. Kennedy cut the number of A-26 sorties intended to take out Castro's T-33 jets from 32, to 8. He was trying to be just a little bit pregnant. Just after the Bay of Pigs Castro was asked why the invasion failed? In a moment of candor he said. "They didn't have any aircover."
Yes, I am aware no US Troops landed in Cuba in 1960. However, that is besides the point. Troops which were funded by and favourable to the US did land there. If we take "hands off" to be no involvement in Latin American affairs, it fails at the first hurdle. There were US forces involved in Guatemala in 1956, in Cuba in 1960, in the Dominican Republic in 1965 and elsewhere in the region... I would suggest that is hardly, "hands off".
Sure it would've been so much better for the Vietnamese People if the whole country was locked inside a Marist Police State in 1954, instead of waiting till1975.
Castro was an opportunist. If the US had backed him in 1960 when he came a'callin' and not declared him automatically a "Communist", he'd have happily remained a reformist capitalist. Nixon's declaration of Castro's Communism was based on naivety not reality. He declared himself a Communist only in order to please Moscow, which was aiding him.
I wasn't aware of the Marists being able to create a "police state" but considering Diem's loyality to the Vatican, I suppose anything is possible...
A minor part of what actually happened in the Wild West. The US Army did have a proud history fighting the Indians from the Eastern States to the Western States. A history that had been forgotten about in the time between Iraq and the end of the 19th century.
Most did, a few did not. Which suggests what about the unpopularity of Communism amongst the rank and file?
The Cuban Revolution did not want conflict with the United States; it wanted cooperation on a foundation of respect for its sovereignty. The Cuban perspective is evident in Law 851, emitted by the Revolutionary Government on July 6, 1960. The Law authorized the President and the Prime Minister of Cuba to nationalize U.S. properties by means of a Joint Resolution. It established compensation for the nationalized properties through government bonds at 2% annual interest, with payment to begin in a period of no less than thirty years. The Law mandated the National Bank of Cuba to create a fund that would be fed by Cuban government deposits in an amount equal to 25% of the value of the U.S. purchase of Cuban sugar in excess of the sugar quota. The Law, therefore, proposed a mutually beneficial resolution, linking compensation for nationalized properties to the U.S.-Cuban sugar trade. By means of a higher U.S. sugar purchase and Cuban use of the additional income to finance compensation and invest in industrial development, Law 851 pointed to the transformation of core-peripheral exploitation into North-South cooperation. The Cuban proposal, however, was rendered impractical by the simultaneous reduction of U.S. purchases below the sugar quota (announced on the same day, July 6), and by its subsequent policy of regime change. Nevertheless, thirty days later, in the announcement of Joint Resolution #1, Fidel appears to remain hopeful that the U.S. government will accept the proposal of compensation through U.S. purchase above the sugar quota.
Question. What is the only country in the world that the people who live there now didn't take it from people who lived there before?
Well that was an embarrassing typo. What choice did the Communists every give the people in the North? 2 million refugees had to flee the North after 1954. After 1975 hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities had to flee as well. The treatment of ethnic Chinese was a major factor leading to the Chinese Vietnamese war of 1979. Being subsumed by Washington worked out pretty well for the South Koreans. Even after so many were sent to reeducation camps most of the people of the South probable thought their standard of living dropped after 1975. Did they have the choice to go back to a Bourgeoisie Capitalist State? How many political parties are there in Vietnam today? By definition the Dictatorship of the Proletariat precludes any choice.
Cuba had been the victim of exploitation for generations. Castro was attempting to correct that. The Americans had been understating the value of their assets and so they were caught in their lie when Castro decided to base his compensation on what they had claimed the value of what he was nationalising. The Americans hated being told that their lies were well, lies.
2 million people fled because of lies and rumour which were spread by the CIA under Edward Lansdale. Those lies and rumours didn't happen. Funny that, hey? The Vietnamese had just ejected the French in 1954. They were not interested in their country being divided permanently in two. I think the Vietnamese should have had democratic elections as were called for under the Geneva Accords and chosen which government they wanted. De Gaulle declared that they would go Communist. Eisenhower rejected that. He refused to allow a democratic choice to be made.
Consider yourself lucky you don't live in Vietnam. Over the last 20 years as they've started to turn away from Communism Vietnam's economy has been growing fast, but it still only ranks 121st in the world for per capita GDP with $3,498, less then half of Thailand's. Vietnam is a large country with many resources, and a very long coastline, it should be doing much better, but 40 years of Communism is hard to get over.
And the Cuban People have really benefitted from the economic justice Castro gave them? Today they can't keep the lights on, and food is rationed, but they have healthcare.