Politics & Power Quote by Lee Harvey Oswald

Oswald’s line has the telltale cadence of a man trying to sound like history is on his side. “I always felt” is doing quiet work: it frames his view as settled conviction, not impulse, and invites the listener to treat him as an analyst rather than a zealot. Then he shifts agency away from Cuba. The Cubans aren’t choosing the Soviet Bloc; they’re “being pushed” there, as if geopolitics were a hallway and Washington kept shoving. It’s a moral alibi disguised as foreign-policy critique.

The intent is less to diagnose Cuba than to prosecute America. In one sentence, Oswald sketches a cause-and-effect chain that turns U.S. pressure into the midwife of communist alignment. That’s a familiar Cold War argument on the left, but coming from a “criminal” figure, it doubles as self-justification: if American policy manufactures enemies, then acts taken in solidarity with those enemies can be cast as reaction, even necessity.

The subtext is a craving for significance. Oswald positions himself as someone who saw the board clearly while others stumbled into catastrophe. It’s also a bid for ideological respectability: he’s not merely attracted to the Soviet project; he’s responding to American blundering.

Context matters. After the Cuban Revolution, U.S. hostility escalated quickly: embargoes, covert action, and the Bay of Pigs helped lock Havana into dependence on Moscow. Oswald’s phrasing neatly launders that messy sequence into a single, blame-forward narrative. It’s the rhetoric of inevitability, useful for anyone who wants to trade personal culpability for historical “logic.”