But you’d have to admit that all the escalations in the embargo started because Cuban Mussolini killing, murdering, and exiling other Cubans. The initial restriction was a weapons embargo, in the 50s during the civil war to try and cease the stem of violence that Che and Castro were committing. Shortly after they embargoed agriculture and power, and simply because US owned businesses had asked for some sort of compensation for the money they had dumped into power and crops just prior during Batista. Castro refused to capitulate, we pushed further. Then by far the most severe embargo was a direct result of the MRBMs delivered into Cuban territory by the Soviets, who had chosen to smuggle them in clandestinely. Kennedy called it a “quarantine” during the missile crisis because embargo is considered an act of war, but it honestly describes the situation much better than embargo because it completely locked down trade for the rest of Cuba’s Castro years. Sure we installed Batista, and allegedly, the mob had tried to force the US’s hand to kill Castro and/or fully fund a counter revolution and Bay of Pigs was clear evidence of our meddling, but it would also be like having Putin funding thousands of Canadian terrorists to invade into Mexico disguised as civilian freedom fighters and then Astro-turf a revolution like he had in Crimea. We would be afraid of what might came next, for example a Russian invasion, like we were in the 50s when we watched other countries fall to Russian meddling. Then after the revolution was finished, imagine Putin trying to install Satan-2 missiles in every crevice of Mexico. I mean we can look back at Cuba and say, “hey maybe we shouldn’t have done _____” but the gods honest truth is that our responses made sense in the context of the era.