Um, Austin, do you wanna, do you wanna jump in here?

Yeah.

I, I was just gonna add one thing to what, um, Rosemary had spoken about and, and the question of cognitive resistance, um, and cognitive warfare because I think this is where it's really critical to think not about Cuba as, as an isolated phenomenon, right? Um, and I think that it's, it, it's, it's clear that the domestic and the international really come together in this sense as well too because, you know, you see the same way that, um, the demonization of Cuba, an alternative of the Cuban Revolution, the same way as you see the demonization historically of Black radicalism in the US, of any other forms of radicalism.

We see, um, in particularly similar to the way that Haiti has been demonized, um, in US popular culture, right? To say that, well, you know, the US can invade, can, um, kidnap a president, can occupy and take over Haiti's political processes for years, but then blame it all on, on the Haitian people, right? Because of all of the, you know, X, Y, Z reasons, 'cause their culture is inferior, because they're savage, et cetera.

And, and these types, because though, because sometimes the, uh, you know, I don't, I kind of subscribe to this belief with some other people that there isn't really a left that exists in the US, at least not in a meaningful way.

But the, the way that people on sort of like the progressive and radical forces that, that exist, right, the, the way that we allow that cognitive warfare to go unchallenged in places like Haiti, in, against countries like Iran, right, um, a- against Cuba, right, allows it to kind of spread, right, and allows it to be weaponized and, and be kind of fine-tuned as well when it's then fed to us for other, for other projects.

Um, and so I think that that is really, really critical.

Two amazing presentations.