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🚨 Hasan Piker Says Cuba Is the Closest Thing to a “Moral Country” and Claims October 7 Made People Rethink “Liberal Democracy in General” Piker praises Cuba as morally exceptional, pointing to its support for “anti-colonial resistance” abroad, especially its military interventions in Africa, as proof. That framing conveniently ignores that the Cuban regime has long backed armed revolutionary movements and other causes widely understood as aligned with terrorism or political violence, all while presenting itself as a force for justice. He goes even further, arguing that the aftermath of October 7 pushed people in the West to rethink not just Israel, but “liberal democracy in general.” Piker also insists Cuba has “done nothing to America, nothing at all,” and dismisses the idea that communism is responsible for the island’s economic failures as “just objectively not true,” blaming U.S. policy and “propaganda” instead. Taken together, it is a sweeping defense of regimes, movements, and narratives defined less by morality than by their opposition to the West.