‘There is no money’: Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis
‘There is no money’: Cuba fears total collapse amid grid failure and financial crisis
Repeated blackouts leave residents concerned about food, water supply and Cuba’s future
United States needs to stop the stupid sanctions
This is what those sanctions are meant to cause. The idea is to force a change in regime from within. It's ridiculous that we're still doing it 50 years later.
Yes, but that won't solve the fundamental problems that led up to this.
Yet it might have solved those problems had the sanctions been lifted 20+ years ago, allowing Cuba more access to diversifying their power grid through being able to get better deals for parts than they currently can.
The sanctions are part and parcel to why they're struggling, and to ignore that they've been extremely limited in who they can trade with, and that limits their options for budgeting what they can buy because they have very few suppliers, is foolhardy.
No, we can't fix the past, but we can recognize that it might have gone very differently had sanctions been lifted long ago.
Aint this is the state goal of the santions tho
If any other country like China or Russia blockaded a country to the point where it would cause a collapse ... we'd probably start WWIII in defence.
US does it and it's just taken as a normal part of world politics and perfectly acceptable.
What the hell did Cuba do to deserve this? They had a difference of opinion and they didn't want to be taken advantage of ... they've since had to be literally starved to death because of it.
An embargo is not a blockade.
The embargo excludes food and medicine, and, in fact, Cuba has, previously, explicitly rejected unconditional offers of US aid.
Cuba's core problems are not due to the embargo, as much as the Cuban government and the terminally online left would like to peddle that narrative.
The embargo is stupid, pointless, and immoral. But it's not what's causing Cuba's current problems in any significant degree.
The state-wide weed markets are another example of what happens when the US government decides your business shouldn't be recognized by banks abroad.
What the hell did Cuba do to deserve this?
The embargo? Seized a bunch of American-owned property in the revolution. The US said "you can nationalize it, but you gotta pay for it". The Cuban government said no, and the US said "then we won't do business with you".
Lot of property owned by Americans out there in the world. Makes people think twice about treating it as a free cash grab bag if the last group to try it regretted it.
Also, as someone else pointed out, it's an embargo, not a blockade, which would be forcibly preventing them from doing business with anyone else, like, parking warships offshore and not letting anything in or out. A blockade would be an act of war. Embargoes are not.
Seized or reclaimed? The colonial gaze is strong here.
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