What is real?
History is uncomfortable — especially when we look at it without ideological filters.
Throughout the 20th century, major powers such as the United States and several European nations were involved in wars, interventions, chemical weapons programs, intelligence operations, and geopolitical strategies that deeply affected civilian populations across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.
After World War II, the United States integrated former German scientists into strategic Cold War programs. This raises complex moral and political questions:
Was it pragmatic statecraft?
Was it hypocrisy?
Was it simply how power operates in a bipolar world?
I don’t claim to have definitive answers. I’m trying to understand.
How do we reconcile narratives of democracy and freedom with a historical record that includes coups, sanctions, proxy wars, and strategic interventions?
Take Cuba as an example.
Before the Revolution, U.S. influence on the island was significant. Afterward, the long-standing embargo reshaped its economic reality.
A difficult but necessary question emerges:
What would Cuba look like today without decades of economic restrictions?
How much of current dissatisfaction stems from internal governance — and how much from prolonged external pressure?
It is not easy to separate genuine civic frustration from the compounded effects of sanctions and information warfare.
More broadly, we must question the global system itself.
Has modern capitalism expanded human freedom — or has it entrenched military-industrial interests and economic hegemony?
If we speak about true human liberation, perhaps the conversation is not East vs. West, capitalism vs. socialism — but rather a deeper systemic transformation beyond extreme capitalism, authoritarian regimes, radical theocracies, and militarized power structures.
This is not about defending any bloc.
It’s about questioning power — wherever it operates.
Understanding history requires nuance, intellectual honesty, and the willingness to confront uncomfortable contradictions.
