Comments by "" (@CYMotorsport) on "Cuban Missile Crisis from the Cuban Perspective | Animated History" video.

@Steveyboii normally I wouldn’t wade in, but your comment went unchecked and thus you’ll think it was a totally fair position. It was not. The objection you most vividly addressed was the creative decision to show Castro with a cigar while Kennedy & khrushchev sat “dignified at the table”. This criticism is at the root of the sentiment of your entire comment so I’ll focus on this otherwise this comment would be far too lengthy. Your comment is in bad faith regarding this depiction, which I assume was at 15:24 but you failed to capture that so forgive me if that assumption is wrong. It’s clear it bothered you how the two looked “dignified” sitting at a table but pay closer attention… they were doing more than that: do you remember what that part of the script was talking about? It was an objectively true explanation of the scenario. They were playing chess… you conveniently left that out. it was an analogy… do you see? Just because you hear something you don’t like that may appear to be negative, doesn’t disqualify it from being relevant information that ultimately speaks to the motives of each party. In fact, it’s quite important we understand how khrushchev was playing two hands at once. Had this very specific moment not been depicted, it actually would have been irresponsible given it was what happened and why things ended as they did. Cuba was a pawn in war games. And no one says that with glee. I’m sure the armchair team take no pleasure detailing the historic events of how Cuba was used in a larger Cold War. I’m sure they feel nothing at all. Bc it’s reality. A reality that ultimately led to the disillusionment of Castro once the US deployed the U-2 to get photo evidence. The fact that the two leaders were dealing without Castro was arguably the driving force behind later monumental decisions and set him on a path to things like Angola, the Non-Aligned Movement leadership, and finally having to contend with his pseudo ally capable of betrayal entering the Non-Aligned Movement nation of Afghanistan. Now, what I will grant you is if you don’t watch the channel often then it’s possible you interpreted the “Cuban perspective” to be the daily life of citizens and motivations of different peoples within. But as with nearly all the videos on this channel I’ve seen, it’s from the eyes of Cuba from an executional standpoint in terms of military operations. But this is why I said your comment about the creative depiction underlines the whole issue here. Your expectation was not in line with how this channel chooses to focus on military strategy and tactics. The video is not titled “from the Cuban citizen perspective”. Anyone who habitually watches the channel knew exactly what this video would explore. For instance, the video didn’t address some of the things culturally you referenced. But then again to achieve its objective of focusing on tactical movements, that wasn’t mission critical. He indeed accurately addressed Castro’s belief that the US were imperialist war mongers that expected enemies to not push back. HE DID NOT Diminish that or make it seem foolish. He spoke about the motivations of Castro. But we all know what happened: you can’t artificially inflate decision retroactively bc it’s from a certain “perspective”. Gorbachev’s pairing of perestroika and glasnost was the final blow leaving Castro holding a $6 billion/year bust. No matter your perspective, this was a losing hand and the context of how such a massive collapse came to be was a tricky set of nuance decisions, often much like the very scene you seem to take such great offense with. It doesn’t make you wrong. Nor does it make the team who made this “right”. Unless you have inaccuracies specially you’d like to cite, of course. But it does mean you expected something never promised. And then you chose to unfairly weaponize that against creative choices that could be justified - just not copacetic to your wishes. That’s the very definition of bad faith.
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