The United States has never had a totalitarian communist dictator.
The U.S. was propping up an anti-communist dictator in order to keep a communist dictator out of power.
Joseph Stalin?
Stalin was dictator in Russia .
In 1959, a Communist Revolt against CUBA's US-supported dictator, Batista, was successful and established the current Cuban Castro Regime.
Cuba
It was wrong for the US to form an alliance with the totalitarian communist Soviet Union during World War II, because they did so on the pretext of assisting Cuba to win freedom from Spain.
Joseph Stalin allied himself with the US, but only until World War 2 was over.
The United States did not have a dictator.
Popular w/the US because he was anti-communist. Unpopular w/RVN citizens because he was considered (by some) to be a dictator.
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Don't worry it's not.
Because the Subic naval station and Clark air force base were important to US interests in the region, and also because of the anti-communist stance of Marcos during the Cold War.