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Cuba’s electrical grid collapses amid US oil blockade | Cuba

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/cuba-electrical-grid-collapses-amid-us-oil-blockade
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RoswellRedux Mar 17, 2026 +522
“I do believe I’ll be ... having the honour of taking Cuba,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Whether I free it, take it – think I could do anything I want with it, you want to know the truth. They’re a very weakened nation right now" That's probably exactly what he said about the little girls Epstein trafficked to him.
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Pale_Fire21 Mar 17, 2026 +135
Trump would love to return Cuba to how it was under Batista, a den of corruption filled with organized crime, gambling, drug trafficking and prostitutes of dubious age and consent while all the money funnels up to the latifundia land holding class who owned 99% of the land
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start_select Mar 17, 2026 +80
Trump doesn’t give a damn about Cuba. It’s just the next step in the script that republicans wrote 40 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84 He is a puppet. The wars + the manufacture of the non-existent antifa and the non-existent ms13 threats will be used to justify sending citizens to the camps. It’s scripted.
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Pale_Fire21 Mar 17, 2026 +31
Trump absolutely cares about Cuba like every Democrat and republican has because they can not allow a successful socialist nation to exist right on their border it creates a contradiction within American society too dangerous to ignore.
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catchy_phrase76 Mar 17, 2026 +1
The reality is that humans suck and will always continue to grasp onto power. That is why a true socialist society will never work. China was the best example for awhile, but they have fully fallen victim to a dictator now too. Socialist democracies have flourished in other parts of the world, but they still rely on some free market. Edit: downvote at will lol. But I implore you to find a society that tried pure socialism at scale greater than a single community/tribe.
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MyOwnWayHome Mar 17, 2026 +3
But Trump is still Putin’s puppet too?
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xynith116 Mar 17, 2026 +5
He’s planning to build a golf course there as we speak ⛳️
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Melodic_Junket_2031 Mar 17, 2026 +22
To him, whatever he can get away with is the "right" thing to do. And people thought he would be good leadership 🤷🤷🤷
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jinkinater Mar 17, 2026 +4
He’s such an idiot . If he did invade Cuba, Cuba is striking distance to the mainland USA. They just to get some drones or missles from Iran or someone and just start bombing the US. I bet their first target would be mar a lago. Don’t think people will be happy getting alerts that bombs are coming and to take shelter
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thisonesforthetoys Mar 17, 2026 +1
He'll grab Cuba by the P.
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Tadpoleonicwars Mar 17, 2026 +1132
What I find as interesting is that despite family ties, the American Cuban community doesn't seem to care all that much about the people actually living in Cuba.
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Moneyshot_ITF Mar 17, 2026 +666
Most of the Cuban Americans were the ones who could afford to leave.
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Lower_Kick268 Mar 17, 2026 +268
Or lucky enough to survive a raft ride to the Keys. Ive heard some wild stories from some of the Cuban immigrants in South Florida. One guy talked about getting stuck in a storm and losing everybody but him and his kid from the raft
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OldGodsProphet Mar 18, 2026 +17
Did everyone forget about Elian Gonzales?
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SnowflakeSWorker Mar 18, 2026 +5
I’m curious how many people remember Elian.
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jctwok Mar 18, 2026 +2
Seems to be at least three of us.
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Here4_da_laughs Mar 18, 2026 +2
No how did he fare?
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rubywpnmaster Mar 18, 2026 +3
He became besties with Fidel Castro and gained all the elite advantages that come along with it. So turns out he loves Cuba and blames the USAs immigration policy at the time for her death. Basically the old dry foot rules. Interesting that the Obama admin ended the wet foot, dry foot program but got nothing but hate for halting illegal immigration l
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Here4_da_laughs Mar 19, 2026 +1
Dang, thanks for the update. Politics unfortunately doesn’t come with a moral compass it comes with a rear view mirror. Everything in hindsight makes perfect sense.
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gummibear13 Mar 17, 2026 +114
There are museums and rafts on display at Key West. Wild stories.
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thetransportedman Mar 17, 2026 +8
We came across one on a caribbean cruise and picked them all up and took them to the next stop
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Mewchu94 Mar 18, 2026 +6
That’s wild. Where did they put them all? Were they allowed to roam the ship and do activities what about eating and amenities im so curious.
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thetransportedman Mar 18, 2026 +7
We never saw them, but the next port of call was the next AM, so I assume they were just in some crew holding area and given a meal and dry clothes before being dropped off the next day
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Lower_Kick268 Mar 17, 2026 +44
It makes me feel lucky I was born at the right time to hear some incredible stories from the older Cuban-immigrants, it used to be really dangerous getting from Cuba to the US before we ramped up coast guard patrols and tracking abilities. Nowadays we can track anything in the water from dozens of nautical miles away whether it has or has no radio, back in the 60s and 70s it wasn't like that at all. In the event of your vessel sinking or someone washing overboard and being swept with the current you were 100% dead, nowadays your chances are much lower.
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Guy_GuyGuy Mar 17, 2026 +27
I have a good online Cuban friend who lives in Cuba and has family in Florida and I can confirm. You can 95% of the time tell what kind of opinion a Cuban-American has on Cuba and how much they care about the regular Cubans who live there based on whether they have family still in Cuba.
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spdelope Mar 17, 2026 +96
Ladder. Pulled up.
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CaulkusAurelis Mar 17, 2026 +16
What I called when I was in a trade union as the "lifeboat theory" OK GUYS, IM IN! LETS GO NOW!
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jctwok Mar 18, 2026 +1
That's not really accurate except for the first wave of Cuban refugees after the revolution. After that it was about expelling criminals, the mentally ill, and those who were unhappy with the Castro regime. Basically any time there was growing unrest, the regime would open the borders and say "anyone who doesn't like it here can leave" so they did. A lot of them came to the US on not much more than an inner tube with a paddle. I think a lot of the animosity Cuban exiles feel toward those still in Cuba is because the exiles have been vilified in Cuba as maggots, and the exiles view those still in Cuba as the ones who supported the regime.
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Wainains Mar 19, 2026 +1
Black Cubans, white exiles. 
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trippygg Mar 17, 2026 +341
Cuban Americans believe Cubans should rebel on their own. They believe making Cuba suffer will bring that outcome. Ironic since they left themselves lol
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ZanzerFineSuits Mar 17, 2026 +227
Not only did they leave but they left decades ago. They're not personally invested in Cuba at all, other than memories of their grandparents.
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askalotlol Mar 17, 2026 +24
This isn't true at all. The largest wave of Cuban immigrants to come to the US was during 2022-2023. Approximately 425,000 Cuban immigrants arrived during that time period. There are thousands of immigrants from Cuba to the US every single year. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/24/record-breaking-numbers-of-cuban-migrants-entered-the-u-s-in-2022-23-00123346
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Objective_Bus_6897 Mar 18, 2026 +1
That. Is. Insane. I somehow missed this. 425,000 Cuban immigrants came to the U.S. Those are staggering figures. God, there is so much suffering taking place right now in the world.
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trippygg Mar 17, 2026 +89
It must be some human social thing happening because Venezuela and Iranians are also like this. Ironically, Cuban Americans love to travel to Cuba
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alaysian Mar 17, 2026 +59
I've seen it in tech. No one hates offshore Indian programmers more than immigrant Indian programmers. And not just as a job threat. A lot of them have the attitude that if they were any good, they would have come to the US already too, though I'm seeing less of that recently, for obvious reasons.
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trippygg Mar 17, 2026 +35
Oh shit I've seen this too! Not Indian American or white American but Indians living in America are rather cruel/ rude to the offshore dev teams
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weirdoldhobo1978 Mar 17, 2026 +38
A lot of them who come to the US and Canada are from wealthier families and are really classist.
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Pack_Your_Trash Mar 17, 2026 +11
It's the class system. It's absolutely tied to wealth, but with an additional religious component that makes it particularly insidious.
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weirdoldhobo1978 Mar 17, 2026 +9
A lot of people confuse India's spiritual culture with a new age Western spirituality and gloss over how deeply conservative of a society it is.
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Delamoor Mar 18, 2026 +3
You'll see it in almost every expat community. It's a human trait; once you've mentally detached from the old in-group, you'll basically lose emotional investment in them, even if the new in-group is unstable. They're no longer an extension of 'me'. Like I'm Australian, looking to emigrate to Germany, know lots of people in the international community there. A majority feel no attachment to their home countries... Unless they're only there temporarily and/or are planning on going back eventually. Like the Israeli lady I know in Berlin could talk at length about how the Israel she hears about just sounds like a totally alien nation to her after 15 years away from it, despite growing up there and still having family there, that kinda thing. It isn't "home" any more, it's just one location amongst many in the world, one which is intellectually familiar but not emotionally connected to you any more. She's been out of there for almost half her life and doesn't identify with it now. I was feeling it too... Until I hit some major bureaucratic hurdles and had to come back to Aus, potentially for multiple years. Slowly re-invested in the former home. If you've permanently relocated, there's a big degree of emotional separation. The former home becomes an out-group, and at best, a memory containing some people you might still know. Like, obviously there are the opposite reactions too, where people cling to this 'origin' idea tightly, but... They're usually people who are searching for an outside identity to latch onto anyway, nation of origin was just an easy one, like racial identity or whatever. *Usually* not super common in first generation immigrants, at least, because y'know... Then you're more likely to just *stay there* and be all nationalistic about the place, rather than taking the *huge and painful* leap of emigrating.
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Mend1cant Mar 17, 2026 +31
It’s money. The people who left are the ones that were comfortable and had the money to leave before it got uncomfortable.
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trippygg Mar 17, 2026 +11
Early waves of Cuban immigrants but since the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba has been a shit place to live.
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kolkitten Mar 17, 2026 +17
Wouldn't possibly have anything to do with the sanctions would it?
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trippygg Mar 17, 2026 +8
It's definitely made it worse.
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kolkitten Mar 17, 2026 +16
Not being able to trade with anyone can easily devastate a nation and make it absolute hell. The US did that shit and they are just trying to do it harder now because somehow cuba has survived. If that's not mass murder I don't know what is.
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OriginalSprax Mar 17, 2026 +5
Something about pulling the ladder up behind you and being part of the "have" group rather than the "have nots"
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johnn48 Mar 17, 2026 +2
Liberia, was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society (ACS) as a colony for freed American slaves. Yet quickly divided into the American repatriated and the native population. Who do you think took advantage, and became the masters.
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CharleyNobody Mar 17, 2026 +61
Got screamed at years ago by a Cuban girl in my school. She accused me and my friends of being communists for being antiwar. She went on a tirade about how her family was rich in Cuba, they had servants, they had beautiful houses and “now…now we live *here*…we live like *pigs*!” This was a at private school on Long Island. She was in the school bathroom, in front of the mirror applying makeup while she was yelling at us. Then she spritzed herself with perfume and stormed out the door.
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Dry-Lab-6256 Mar 17, 2026 +15
Servants=Slaves
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lorddane Mar 17, 2026 +42
Did everybody clap too?
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PorygonTriAttack Mar 17, 2026 +16
What a spoiled brat.
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OlderThanMyParents Mar 18, 2026 +3
> other than memories of their grandparents. Ah, the good old days, when Meyer Lansky ran things, and the economy of Havana was gambling and live sex shows, and Batista pumped millions of dollars out of the economy to his off-shore accounts! Those were the days!
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Acceptable-Peace-69 Mar 17, 2026 +18
They’re still hoping to get their property back that they gave up in the sixties.
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r3dditr0x Mar 17, 2026 +22
Chasing their wicked asses off the island was the best thing Castro did. They are and were terrible. They treated most of the denizens of the island like serfs, that's what they miss.
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Lovely_kenzie Mar 17, 2026 +10
Serfs is putting it nicely. They were slaves.
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CaulkusAurelis Mar 17, 2026 +3
Insert "some of you may die" GIF here
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wrecklesspup Mar 17, 2026 +1
Oh, this is a perspective I have not heard. I think it is pretty horrendous though.
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PersimmonWorried2155 Mar 17, 2026 +73
Having lived in Miami, they hate 1) people still in Cuba 2) anyone poor, coming from Cuba.
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Chillow_Ufgreat Mar 17, 2026 +20
Coming from anywhere if you're poor tbh.
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PersimmonWorried2155 Mar 17, 2026 +7
I wish that was not true.
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Django117 Mar 17, 2026 +66
That’s the nature of many diasporas. They left for reasons, whether that was persecution by that government, disapproval of its policies, violence from the state, or a lack of opportunity provided to them. As such, many diasporas are excited to see the nations they left behind collapse as it vindicates their decisions and opens the door to the country changing and thus addressing their issues with the country.
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RetardedChimpanzee Mar 17, 2026 +12
Many also heavily vote Republican because that’s the policies they are most familiar with, despite their governments being the reason they left their home countries.
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StacyChadBecky Mar 17, 2026 +69
lol. Their issue was that the lower class fought back. The Cuban diaspora is predominantly what was the landed class who profited from the corruption and oppression.
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Segull Mar 17, 2026 +22
More than a million people have fled over the past few years…. Were these people the “landed class” 70+ years after the revolution? Obviously not
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MCB1317 Mar 17, 2026 +7
It's 2026, not 1986. Your view is now completely outdated unless you think that "landed class" is some sort of hereditary status.
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eXAt88 Mar 17, 2026 +4
I think the thing with a lot of these I guess doom wishing diaspora groups is it’s pretty hard to believe that even if “the regime” was to collapse and the gov became more aligned with them that they would go back, especially considering how many of them aren’t even first generation.
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Peligineyes Mar 17, 2026 +55
They're the descendants of wealthy landowners and businessmen who were driven out by the communists, they hate the Cubans who drove them out and delight in their suffering. There are no family ties, American Cubans are 3-4 generations removed at this point and never even talk to extended family in Cuba.
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alrodri08 Mar 18, 2026 +6
Over 850,000 Cubans have arrived in the U.S. in the last four years (approx. 2022–2026), marking one of the largest exoduses in Cuban history. There are actually quite a decent amount of Cubans that arrived recently. The above doesn't include the Cubans that arrived in the early 2000s.
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wrecklesspup Mar 17, 2026 +5
Me too. They vote for Republicans to enact harsh policies against the Cuban government with no concern on how it will effect the human beings living on the island.
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VanceRefridgeTech04 Mar 17, 2026 +12
> the American Cuban community doesn't seem to care all that much about the people actually living in Cuba. they seem to be in the "got mine, f*** you" crowd. Its not a wonder why they vote conservative.
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seeyou_nextfall Mar 17, 2026 +23
Cuban Americans are generally descended from the generation who backed the fascist Batista regime and fled during the revolution. There’s little love lost there
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YouShallNotPass92 Mar 17, 2026 +34
American Cuban's are Republican bootlickers mostly. They'd love nothing more than Trump taking over Cuba and Americanizing it. It's pretty pathetic
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Fanfics Mar 17, 2026 +11
"When they're sending people, they're not sending their best-"
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pattyG80 Mar 17, 2026 +6
They are the craziest of the MAGAs the miami cubans
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TeamVegas780 Mar 17, 2026 +8
Its beyond not caring. A lot of Cuban Americans look down on people still in Cuba and immigrants who came later than themselves. Its baffling
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SellaraAB Mar 17, 2026 +4
I mean they already fit right in with MAGA, it’s just part of how conservatism ravages the brain/the type of ravaged brain that embraces conservatism.
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jtg6387 Mar 17, 2026 +2
The ones that leave are typically very, very anti-Cuba, and not without reason.
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YourBonesAreMoist Mar 18, 2026 +2
Because most Cubans and Cuban descendents in America agree that current Cuban government is shit
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LevelHorn2717 Mar 17, 2026 +3
That’s a pretty bold statement. What is your source on that sentiment, exactly? Asking to know, not to shame you or anything.
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Tadpoleonicwars Mar 17, 2026 +3
Subjective observation. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I've never heard any sympathy from Cuban Americans about the people of Cuba that wasn't just a sentence fragment proceeding a paragraph about regime change.
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lurpeli Mar 17, 2026 +4
The only Cubans living in America are the wealthier Cubans by and large. Ergo they don't care about poor people
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mechabeast Mar 17, 2026 +2
Got to pull that ladder up.
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tiutome Mar 17, 2026 +2
They may care a lot. The question is what options do they have? Marco is a sell-out. So what is their next option???
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Doom2pro Mar 17, 2026 +1
It's a minority thing, pulling the ladder up behind you. It's why they vote for Republicans and Trump when it's literally the worst choice.
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Cryptocaned Mar 17, 2026 +170
Didn't they just have a 6.0 magnitude earthquake too?
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iwasinthepool Mar 17, 2026 +74
So we're going to take over Cuba this month?
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JimHeckdiver Mar 17, 2026 +49
Trump flat out said that was his intent, yes.
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CaveManta Mar 17, 2026 +58
It's important to make sure you spread your military as thin while having as many enemies as possible.
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sissybelle3 Mar 17, 2026 +18
Sun Tzu's little known second work "The Art of Societal Collapse"
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CaveManta Mar 17, 2026 +6
It also teaches us that we must keep these wars going as long as possible because there are infinite instances of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
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bizkits_n_gravy Mar 18, 2026 +2
It’s the art of the deal
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parabostonian Mar 17, 2026 +12
How amazing is it to see Trump go from his prior stance of “I’m against regime change wars” to seemingly wanting to change all the regimes at the same time? FFS
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Pantsickle Mar 17, 2026 +246
It's like Donald Trump is in a race with himself to see how fast he can cause a complete global meltdown. At this rate, the Bronze Age collapse will seem like a sunny holiday.
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Slypenslyde Mar 17, 2026 +127
I mean, his circle published a book with their plans to do exactly that. But we were too busy laughing about how stupid it was and that other people would stop them. Turns out when everything is someone else’s job it’s no one’s job.
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Pantsickle Mar 17, 2026 +21
>Turns out when everything is someone else's job it's no one's job. Exactly that. But what could anyone have possibly done to stop something like Project 2025? Foment a violent resistance based on a "maybe?" We're constantly trapped in impossible situations and at the mercy of idiots and villains. It's exhausting.
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Slypenslyde Mar 17, 2026 +15
> Exactly that. But what could anyone have possibly done to stop something like Project 2025? Foment a violent resistance based on a "maybe?" Well, it's kind of uncomfortable because if you advocate for violence it's a good way to get your account dinged. But if you think about it, we *did* have a violent resistance. It was a mob who stormed the US Capitol with the intent of destroying anyone who stood in Donald Trump's way. He didn't win that election, but can you say those people never got what they wanted? I can't. There are people in this country who are willing to fight, kill, and die for what they believe in. If those people aren't on the side in opposition to Project 2025, then I highly doubt it can be stopped. These people aren't basing their power on civility and debate, but they *have* learned their opposition values that and is very loathe to operate outside its bounds. I think ANDOR was a very good series for portraying that. Some of the biggest heroes in that movie are people who compromised their own morals for the cause and they do not mince words when they explain that to others.
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Pantsickle Mar 17, 2026 +3
What's funny is that fighting, killing, and dying for what you believe in is how America came to be in the first place, and we celebrate and downright worship the revolutionary founding fathers, but now if you just righteously protest on the street due to social injustice or bald-faced tyranny, according to this "real American" administration, you're a domestic terrorist.
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ernapfz Mar 17, 2026 +18
The Bronze Age collapse and what about the Fall of the Roman Empire for the US. Global meltdown is a good phrase. With each disgusting act by the US, the rest of the world sees the US as an out of control threat. By the way, it won’t go away in ‘4’ years due to the wacko unpredictabilities in the US.
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chaos8803 Mar 17, 2026 +25
I don't expect any nation to take America seriously ever again unless we can keep a 50 year streak of stability and rationality.
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Pantsickle Mar 17, 2026 +6
No, the effects of this administration has not only thrown our society into chaos and torn the country apart at the seams, but transformed it into something completely different than anything that ever resembled a version of America based on our constitutional foundations. America is no longer America. And it's all because of a ridiculous tabloid star who's incapable of wearing clothes that fit.
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boom929 Mar 17, 2026 +2
Good thing he has a ton of rich friends that can be ready to make bank when they swoop in to "fix" everything.
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KennyMoose32 Mar 17, 2026 +2
Shiiiiiit whose gonna be the new Sea People? I’m ready for some high seas fun, tbh
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coulls Mar 17, 2026 +40
This is building a worldwide generational memory of America that it won’t live down for decades.
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mycatisblackandtan Mar 18, 2026 +5
That's kinda the point when you realize who has their hands up Trump's ass. We've known that Putin has been giving him 'suggestions' for awhile now and all of these actions actively strengthen the claims and legitimacy of BRICS. Meanwhile on the home-front, our techbro billionaires WANT us isolated so they can carve up the nation into their own little parcels ala Yarvin's 'Butterfly Revolution'. With groups like the Heritage Foundation and other Evangelical groups getting to tickle the pickle of the various groups who read Left Behind as kids and who are now desperate to usher in the End Times. (I am sadly not kidding. Butterfly Revolution and Project 2025 lay a lot of this shit out. Meanwhile Trump doesn't care so long as he can: 1. Stay out of jail. 2. Get richer. 3. Get the impression that other people love/adore him while getting to harass the rest. It's all one big symbiotic loop with a lot of innocent people caught in the middle and dying for the vanity of one f****** orange turd, his cult members, and his handlers.
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ShogsKrs Mar 17, 2026 +39
Dialysis patients will suffer and die. Nicu babies will suffer and die. Whole hospitals without ANY power. American is committing Crimes Against Humanity! American is a terrorist state under trump and republicans.
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mex2005 Mar 17, 2026 +15
We have been terrorizing Cuba since forever aside from Obama doing a shift in policy
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macarouns Mar 17, 2026 +101
This is nothing less than pure evil. The US has so much blood on its hands. And for what?
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Andy_LaVolpe Mar 17, 2026 +5
And also molest and eat babies
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laxvolley Mar 17, 2026 +29
Trump gets to feel tough.
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mechabeast Mar 17, 2026 +9
As he pisses himself
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Worriedlytumescent Mar 17, 2026 +1
Some way we're not seeing it's money in his pocket.
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Slypenslyde Mar 17, 2026 -7
The US is just Israel's b****. You're going to have to ask Netanyahu what the point is.
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youtheotube2 Mar 17, 2026 +8
I don’t think Israel cares much about Cuba
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MoreGaghPlease Mar 17, 2026 +9
This is such a naive view. Since when had the US needed to be goaded into imperialism? You have the clientelist relationship backwards.
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r3dditr0x Mar 17, 2026 +14
Marco Rubio, literally said that's why we went to war with Iran. That's not our words, those are his. Take it up with him.
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Maine_Man Mar 17, 2026 +2
AIPAC, USS Liberty, Lavon Affair, 9/11. We've been goaded/attempted to be multiple times at this point lol
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Fancy_Possibility456 Mar 17, 2026 +76
……It kinda seems like the US is the global terrorist these days….
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TheSouthernCommunist Mar 17, 2026 +45
Just “these days”?
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Fanfics Mar 17, 2026 +10
we used to have the grace to do it on the down-low. Now we've got the ultimate nouveau riche dipshit running things instead of the old robber baron families and so we're rapacious colonialists *and* completely tactless
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Silent-Act191 Mar 17, 2026 +14
>we used to have the grace to do it on the down-low. I'm sure all the civilians who got killed in drone strikes felt that way.
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Andy_LaVolpe Mar 17, 2026 +4
The US is unironically the biggest sponsor of terrorism, specially in Latin America.
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KYresearcher42 Mar 17, 2026 +6
I guess the Epstein files crept back in the news somewhere so on to our next distraction.
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Original-Truth-1007 Mar 17, 2026 +46
WTF 🤬 no one should have a right to try to starve an entire country. This is pathetic and shameful…
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Fanfics Mar 17, 2026 +36
it's f****** insane that our foreign policy is hell-bent on destroying some random island because of a grudge from the red scare era and electoral shit that keeps it relevant
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Silent-Act191 Mar 17, 2026 +18
Can't let the peasants get it in their heads that you can overthrow the wealthy ruling class and get away with it. The US has to set an example.
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FineAutist Mar 18, 2026 +7
Nothing short of cruelty here.
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287fiddy Mar 18, 2026 +5
Nothing says liberating the people like making them suffer 🙄
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Previous-Space-7056 Mar 17, 2026 +16
Why does the article state “blockade”. ? The US is embargoing cuba, not blockading.. Blockading infers that one country is preventing passage to another by force.. ex israel/ palestine No us naval ships are preventing this
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Andy_LaVolpe Mar 17, 2026 +14
You don’t need navy boats patrolling the island when a simple threat of economic sanctions on any country that offers assistance is enough.
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jasonridesabike Mar 17, 2026 +4
The US has in addition to the embargo set up an actual blockade preventing any oil onto the island since the Venezuela operation.
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Cunninghams_right Mar 17, 2026 +3
Well, if you stop the countries who would have sent oil from sending oil, isn't that kind of a blockade? 
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Realsorceror Mar 17, 2026 +6
I don’t understand why this hasn’t been the top news all year. He’s doing this for literally no reason. I can’t even say it’s a distraction from his other crimes because it’s barely talked about. He just hates these people.
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Mysticsurgeonsteam Mar 17, 2026 +4
The trumpstein regime strikes again
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MichaelHunt009 Mar 17, 2026 +5
So, unlike Venezuela, Iran, Canada, and Greenland, Cuba posed an imminent threat to the US?
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crakkerzz Mar 17, 2026 +3
Lets hear it for the Epstein Class Billionaire's under Trump being the Biggest POS on the Planet. If we can Steal it, We Deserve it, regardless of how many we Kill.
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deviltrombone Mar 17, 2026 +15
Wouldn't we call it "terrorism" if Iran or North Korea hackers knocked out our grid? I was going to add "or if one of the right-wing groups succeeded in blowing up the grid", but the *Republican* regime has been clearing the path for them and would laud them as "patriots". That is a thing they've been trying to do, BTW: https://www.google.com/search?q=right+wing+groups+targeting+electrical+grid
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Ja_Lonley Mar 17, 2026 +15
Terrorism is a term that only those in power get to use.
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Silent-Act191 Mar 17, 2026 +4
US bombs a girl's school: "Whoopsy, collateral damage." Iran bombs a US military base in a foreign country: "HOW F****** DARE YOU?"
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radred609 Mar 17, 2026 +6
>Wouldn't we call it "terrorism" if Iran or North Korea hackers knocked out our grid? Depends on how they did it. If it was because we were unable to purchase enough fuel to keep the generators running, then probably not.
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Raa03842 Mar 17, 2026 +9
Is that not a crime against humanity?
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iwasinthepool Mar 17, 2026 -5
No, it is.
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StacyChadBecky Mar 17, 2026 +5
Siege. Call it what it is. It’s an act of war. The United States is in peril due to this reckless regime.
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hhempstead Mar 17, 2026 +3
why is mighty america intent on making the cubans suffer? what is so threatening to mighty america that it needs to destroy this small inconsequential tiny little island
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Any1fortens Mar 18, 2026 +2
Regardless of who is in charge of our government, and regardless of our past difficulties with Cuba, I do no see how we can let this happen to one of our neighbors.
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r3dditr0x Mar 17, 2026 +3
Yay. We're starving and immiserating another country filled with brown people. 🙄
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Maine_Man Mar 17, 2026 +7
Idk if ive ever heard cubans called "brown people"
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Altruistic-Car2880 Mar 17, 2026 +1
How many children will suffer once already low food supplies and medicines are destroyed because refrigeration is non existent? So very Christian
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lordofnoldor Mar 18, 2026 +1
Does that mean America needs to overthrow America for what America is doing
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Reachforthesky777 Mar 18, 2026 +1
I imagine Cuba and DPRK are topics of constant discussion within the inner circles of this war president's admin. taco described a potential path forward as a "friendly takeover", which is interesting considering the oil embargo taco implemented certainly is costing lives and hardship. "Friendly takeover" made possible by breaking your legs and bending your arm behind your back as you scramble to sign with pen clutched between teeth.
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tera_chachu Mar 17, 2026 -2
Man somebody please stop that co*ksucker please.
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blackkhuta Mar 17, 2026
I feel really sorry for them. I've been to Cuba and the people are so nice. It's just they have a shitty leadership that would be willing to bite their nose to spite their face. Wasn't this the Vegas of the Caribbean for the US back in the day?
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Equivalent_Range6291 Mar 17, 2026 -4
Yea Cuba, kinda bit like the US\`s own Taiwan. I wonder what Donald would be saying if China cut off Taiwans oil supplies in a stranglehold? .. I wonder what Donald would do if Chinese Warships rocked up to Cuba.
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Ok_Replacement4702 Mar 17, 2026 -3
He'd shit his already shitted pants
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