This is not a fair comparison. The American medical system has to keep Americans alive while the Spanish medical system merely has to keep Spaniards alive. It is a medical miracle that Americans get to live above the age of 70 on average with their lifestyles.
“People were killed by Indonesian parties, fearing every moment [their] life will end in a gruesome way,” he said. “That gives a certain anxiety and stress that makes you ‘trigger happy’. And who were these military troops? Young lads from the country, who had just experienced a war and were dropped with no good training, information or education into a conflict where they were told they would be restoring peace and order.
“You can’t make a group of people responsible for what a state does. Our victims have never been recognised, and today they are stamped perpetrators.”
The Dutch were the real victims of the colonization of Indonesia. Finally someone is brave enough to say who the true victims were without political correctness. Always support the troops people!
Eastern European countries weren't Soviet puppets because soviets didn't control them. A few examples below.
Yugoslavia - great tensions with the USSR all the way until the end, including plenty of denouncements on both sides.
Albania - sided with Mao in the sino-soviet split
GDR - friendliest with the USSR, but still did whatever they wanted in the end (such as building the berlin wall which the soviets were strongly against)
The eastern bloc wasn't unified like the western bloc because the USSR didn't coup every country that didn't toe the line like the USA. They even dissolved their main method of influencing foreign countries in the 50s (comintern).
There's plenty of Chinese Americans who speak Mandarin fluently. The problem is that the intelligence community doesn't want to hire them due to sinophobia. They want someone who is an adult, has a history of hating China, yet is devoted enough to learn the language through years of study. Unsurprisingly, there aren't many.
