Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“In the 1930s, apologists for Joseph Stalin’s use of terror and engineered famine to produce socialism, complacently said, ‘You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.’ George Orwell’s acid reply: ‘Where’s the omelet?’ Mendicant Marxism, dependent for decades on Soviet subsidies, then on Venezuelan oil from the Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro regimes, is discredited everywhere outside Western universities’ humanities departments. … On Jan. 29, President Trump declared Cuba ‘an unusual and extraordinary threat.’ This absurd finding enables a U.S.-enforced oil embargo that might tip Cuba into, at best, social entropy. Then what? Cuba’s internal-security apparatus has reduced society to a dust of individuals. There is no latent capacity for organic democratic expression, as Solidarity became in Poland in the 1980s, when, suddenly, a third of the nation joined it.” (02/20/26)