Our policy with regards to Russia should be re-evaluated. They have become a nation of poor people, just to have commercial links with the West. That is wrong. The standard should be that a nation provide a steadily increasing standard of living for its people, that its citizens are healthy and content and well educated. How they manage to accomplish this is flexible, so long as the level of freedom and the level of personal responsibility of the citizens is always increasing. Ditto for Cuba. Far from being embargoed, Cuba should be made a model for the dictatorial norm of South American nations because Cubans have more rights than anybody else in South America. Cuba doesn’t export drugs either, just rum and cigars – and hope.