Faraday Cage
After the Cuban Revolution, could Cuba have appealed to France (which was withdrawing from NATO at the time) as an intermediate choice between the US and the USSR in terms of searching for an ally?
So token support allows Castro's Cuba to survive without the US trying to put Batista back in charge, but without any real ally Cuba remains an insignificant state that remains open to the West and uses the profits of their entertainment and vices to fund a mildly authoritarian welfare state?
Cuba: Scandinavian Style (not that Scandinavia is mildly authoritarian). Finlandized social democratic Cuba.
"Social democratic" isn't how I'd describe even a non-Soviet aligned Castrist Cuba. Left-populist at best, meaning something like present-day Venezuela, and a regular dictatorship at worst.Cuba: Scandinavian Style (not that Scandinavia is mildly authoritarian). Finlandized social democratic Cuba.
"Social democratic" isn't how I'd describe even a non-Soviet aligned Castrist Cuba. Left-populist at best, meaning something like present-day Venezuela, and a regular dictatorship at worst.