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Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by einszwei »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #26
einszwei wrote: post #22

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-... Sanctions on Cuba have strangled their economy and spread misery among the population. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143112 US is almost alone in spearheading the embargo.

What can Cuba offer? Same problem with Haiti, what can Haiti offer? Not even China seems interested in paying peanuts for them (The way they are buying Nicaragua and Venezuela)

Their main economic source was tourism which US has successfully strangled (rolling back the relaxation from Obama era)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/travellers-visited-cuba-last-11-1...

Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by excalibur »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #26
einszwei wrote: post #22

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-... Sanctions on Cuba have strangled their economy and spread misery among the population. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143112 US is almost alone in spearheading the embargo.

What can Cuba offer? Same problem with Haiti, what can Haiti offer? Not even China seems interested in paying peanuts for them (The way they are buying Nicaragua and Venezuela)

I hear their cigars are pretty good

Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by _2d30 »

lalaland1125 wrote: post #17

Cuba has been going through a crazy major decline ever since COVID. It's pretty rare for a mostly developed country to collapse into poverty without a war. Roughly 5% of the population is fleeing the island each year: https://miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cub...

> It's pretty rare for a mostly developed country to collapse into poverty without a war.

Since when was Cuba, post Castro, anything other than impoverished?

Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by moribvndvs »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #26
einszwei wrote: post #22

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-... Sanctions on Cuba have strangled their economy and spread misery among the population. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143112 US is almost alone in spearheading the embargo.

What can Cuba offer? Same problem with Haiti, what can Haiti offer? Not even China seems interested in paying peanuts for them (The way they are buying Nicaragua and Venezuela)

They can offer being humans.

Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by thatcat »

catlikesshrimp wrote: post #26
einszwei wrote: post #22

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-... Sanctions on Cuba have strangled their economy and spread misery among the population. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143112 US is almost alone in spearheading the embargo.

What can Cuba offer? Same problem with Haiti, what can Haiti offer? Not even China seems interested in paying peanuts for them (The way they are buying Nicaragua and Venezuela)

quality medical care

Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by perihelions »

gigatexal wrote: post #11

It would be a really good opportunity for the US to go and offer to help. It would be huge for diplomacy between the two countries. Send sec. Pete over with his infrastructure expertise and let’s help modernize their grid and build better relations. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste or something along those lines.

How is it in the US' interest to help a Russian ally operate their oil-fired power plant–one that's running on Russian oil?

Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by serial_dev »

einszwei wrote: post #22

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-... Sanctions on Cuba have strangled their economy and spread misery among the population. https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143112 US is almost alone in spearheading the embargo.

The economic model and decisions of Cuba is a terrible idea and could never work.

To show you how confident we are in this, we will engineer the harshest economic hit job and we will sanction the sh out of them, and every other country that tries something similar.

Respectfully, the US and its lackeys

Re: Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails

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Post by nine_k »

moribvndvs wrote: post #35
catlikesshrimp wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What can Cuba offer? Same problem with Haiti, what can Haiti offer? Not even China seems interested in paying peanuts for them (The way they are buying Nicaragua and Venezuela)

They can offer being humans.

That's not what you should give away in exchange for something.

But being human is indeed valuable in a purely utilitarian economic sense, too: it's a prerequisite to being able to teach machines. Services like the more and more elaborate marking / description of data sets are often outsourced to countries that have low-cost labor. It's intellectual work, in a sense.

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