Matt Beat
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Why did the Bay of Pigs Invasion Fail?
🕑 Added 2024-10-04 20:52:58 +0000 UTCI got to travel to Miami in June, and while I was there I visited the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library, a place honoring the veterans of the Bay of Pigs Museum. This inspired me to make this video. There's probably a lot about the Bay of Pigs Invasion you don't know about. In this video, I try to add some nuance to explain why the invasion perhaps wasn't as big of a failure as we tend to think it was.
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Mr. Beat
Yeah, fortunately JFK learned to not trust the CIA so much after this. Thanks for the kind words!
Gael Guerard
Thanks for the video. Even though I was around at that time I was just a kid. I don't remember much about it except that communism was taking over Cuba and the US was under threat. Now at least I understand a bit more about it. Too bad about the CIA having such a strong hold on our politics.
Gael Guerard
Wow, Castro looks so young in that picture!
Mr. Beat
True true
Naterade
Pretty big foreign policy blunder by JFK. Although, to be fair, every president since has had a pretty poor track record on foreign policy.
Mr. Beat
JFK learned from his mistake! It's admirable how he adjusted so well.
Michael Cortez
I think it goes to show just how smooth JFK was as a President to have a disaster like this happen so early in his presidency… and come out relatively unscathed.
