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Questions & Help Mar 17, 2026 at 12:46 PM

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power

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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cubas-national-electric-grid-collapses-says-grid-operator-2026-03-16/
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korkythecat333 Mar 17, 2026 +41
Archive link - https://archive.ph/x1bn5
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OddGold348 Mar 17, 2026 +450
Imagine if the USA helped people instead of bombed them.
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RonaldoNazario Mar 17, 2026 +221
We’ve abandoned the idea of any sort of soft power.
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SadFeed63 Mar 17, 2026 +86
Electing people who would just hear the term "*soft* power" and then snicker at the word soft, and insistently tell you over and over that they are never soft and are hard all the time, while looking down at their dicks, might have been a mistake. Who's to say?
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RonaldoNazario Mar 17, 2026 +40
The same people - “why do none of our allies want to help us?!”
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LetTheSinkIn Mar 17, 2026 +10
American exceptionalism is a stupid drug to be addicted to. They could have picked one with more fun and less harm to others.
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CategoryZestyclose91 Mar 17, 2026 +5
PeAcE tHrOuGh StReNgTh
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Marure Mar 17, 2026 +1
I was born in 1993 and grew up watching American TV shows (dramas, cartoons, films etc), and consumed American products also. It was dreamy. I always thought it was a land of free where you could be anyone you want. Man, things have changed.
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segujer Mar 18, 2026 +1
hard power is all what's left to keep Trump - Hegseth's dicks up.
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MrsClaireUnderwood Mar 17, 2026 -4
Soft power is just a way to say coercion without bombs.
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T00luser Mar 17, 2026 +3
that can be 100% true and still be better than bombs.
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MrsClaireUnderwood Mar 18, 2026
Okay, but the original comment says "imagine if the USA helped people instead of bombed them".
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johnn48 Mar 18, 2026
What if you substituted helped for coercion. Your parents used different methods to help coerce you into being a better person. Soft power in the form of USAid may not have been altruistic, but that lack of altruism saved lives and NGO’s around the World are struggling without those supplies.
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Far_Adeptness9884 Mar 17, 2026 +6
We starve our own people including children.
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VideVictoria Mar 17, 2026 +69
I may need to educate myself more in the matter, but isn't USA's active blockade the main reason Cuba can't hold it's infrastructure?
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Weak_Syllabub_7994 Mar 17, 2026 +41
Part of it, another big part is that Venezuela is no longer giving Cuba free/discounted oil.
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MaloortCloud Mar 17, 2026 +28
The two are related. The Helms-Burton Act severely restricts the capacity to trade with Cuba. Companies are effectively forced to choose to trade with Cuba or trade with the US. Since the US is a much larger market, it always wins. This means that most oil companies won't sell oil to Cuba at any price and their main supplier was Venezuela, who had limited capacity to trade with the US anyway. Trump increased the restrictions by imposing tariffs on any country that sells oil to Cuba, further limiting their access. Without Venezuelan oil (discounted or otherwise), Cuba has very few potential suppliers of oil even if they can pay for it. Ultimately, this is what has caused the collapse of their power grid. With *some* access to oil, they could limp along with rolling blackouts, but keep the grid up using some oil that could be purchased. Without any oil, it's a disaster.
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BackInATracksuit Mar 17, 2026 +10
And why is that? They just have a sudden change of heart?
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Early-Yak-to-reset Mar 17, 2026 +1
Now that Venezuela is under U.S control, Venezuela will no longer accept slaves as payment. I mean people. Whatever you wanna call it when you sell your citizens for oil.
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ThereAreDozensOfUs Mar 17, 2026 +1
Just like the US is doing
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Sic_Semper_Dumbasses Mar 17, 2026 +29
Absolutely. But this regime has taken it to a new level by also not even letting them keep the lights on. Which at least previously they could do.
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210Ryan Mar 17, 2026 -28
Ight man let’s have some accountability it’s not like Cuba’s corrupt government had anything to do with anything
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Sic_Semper_Dumbasses Mar 17, 2026 +28
You just threw away all accountability for American actions and all of the damage they are causing while saying that you're all about accountability. Behold the epitome of the Republican party, ladies and gentlemen!
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210Ryan Mar 17, 2026 -25
Idk what you mean about republicans but looking at ur comment history you win you got way to much time on your hand but keep feeling good about urself
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Trick-Set-1165 Mar 17, 2026 +8
Why is it always people complaining about accountability that run away from folks challenging their shitty opinions?
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Sic_Semper_Dumbasses Mar 17, 2026 +10
And you have nothing to throw at me but lazy personal insults. So I'll block you now and good f****** riddance.
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Competitive_Yak_5444 Mar 17, 2026 +2
Pretty mid? It’s horrible. Look at the countries they rank far behind. Fearful of successful communism is laughable.
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Competitive_Yak_5444 Mar 17, 2026 +1
I can’t tell if this is a serious question. If so then there is quite possibly a severe lack of education about Cuba’s history. And Not just their history with the United States.
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Competitive_Yak_5444 Mar 18, 2026 +1
I’m not gonna teach you Cuba’s history post-Castro and why the United States continues its embargo. Yes, part of it is definitely to prevent the spread of communism, which has been proven time and time again not to be successful. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You’re obviously not well-educated on the matter and there’s nothing wrong with that. But don’t act like you have all the answers and that your opinion is correct when you’re ignorant to the facts and letting your own biases get in the way of seeing reality.
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Unlucky-Albatross-12 Mar 17, 2026 +2
Communism can never fail, it can only be failed.
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oryan80 Mar 17, 2026 +1
The trump regime is probably the most corrupt in history
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Morgrid Mar 17, 2026 +12
The US has an embargo on Cuba, not a blockade.
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Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Mar 17, 2026 +26
No, it's effectively a blockade, and th  media keeps calling it that. The US has *physically seized* oil shipments bound for Cuba, in addition to economic threats to anyone who dares to ship more.
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theqmann Mar 18, 2026 +1
Well, Venezuelan oil blockade. Are they blocking other countries or other goods?
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1046737 Mar 17, 2026 -14
No, the US isn't blockading Cuba. Cuba has pursued a policy of command economy for sixty years that has left them dirt poor (like every other command economy, ever). The US refuses to trade with Cuba because Cuba stole a bunch of American's property and hosted nuclear missiles pointed straight at our heads, along with generally being an oppressive dictatorship. Cuba was only able to keep the lights on thanks to shipments of oil from Venezuela. That oil was the patrimony of the Venezuelan people, but was stolen by the Venezuelan Chavista cronies to buy Cuban mercenaries to keep the Chavistas in power. With Maduro gone, the stolen oil isn't flowing anymore. Basically, if the only way you can generate power is by renting out your soldiers to oppress someone else, you aren't in a good place.
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engin__r Mar 17, 2026 +9
The US doesn’t just refuse to trade with Cuba. It also punishes anyone else who trades with Cuba.
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AirForceH Mar 17, 2026 +7
The command economy and dictatorship are a result of heavy U.S. interference and exploitation which started following the Spanish-American war and lasted until the 1955
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1046737 Mar 17, 2026 -3
Okay, that was a great excuse in 1960. What's their excuse in 2026? Vietnam got bombed and shot and burned to the ground by the US, and it only took them ten years or so to figure out that they should become market oriented and stop impoverishing their citizens.
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AirForceH Mar 18, 2026 +2
Vietnam is a bit different because while we certainly bombed the shit out of them, they actually won the war against us - like American history literally defines the Vietnam war as a loss - Cuba on the other hand is a case where they’ve always been sort of forced to play the deck of cards we give them. 1. They don’t impoverish their citizens by choice, that’s what happens when a world superpower seals you off from the global economy and you are left to your own devices. And no matter what Cubans still get free healthcare so I’m not quite sure I’d say the Cuban government is the one impoverishing their own citizens 2. How do you expect a socialist country in the western hemisphere to become market oriented when resources are so limited to buy from and or sell to said market?
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British_Commie Mar 17, 2026 +3
Cuba's literally spent the last decade plus liberalising their economy to expand the private sector and yet the US has only strengthened the economic blockade against them
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Dragull Mar 17, 2026 +2
Straight up ignorant take. Almost all planned economies boosted the countries wealth and well being of the population significantly, at least for quite a few decades before stagnating. Cuba didnt stole property, it took BACK stolen property. Cuba only pivoted to the soviet block only after US considered them enemies of the state. US sponsored terrorist attacks there and even invaded. The embargo hurts Cuba quite a lot. It not only blocks trade with US. It cuts Cuba from any machine or product that has ANY part (even a screw) made by US company or any company linked to a US company. And blockade US is doing now is disgustingly evil.
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Prestigious_Load1699 Mar 18, 2026
Haahha so let’s all switch to command economies, right? Nonsense. Centrally-planned economies fail.
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nathanwilson26 Mar 17, 2026 -5
Cuba’s economy doesn’t have enough money to buy oil on the global market. They were selling the oil they were receiving from Venezuela for cash.
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MaloortCloud Mar 17, 2026 +2
The US is preventing Cuba from buying oil at any price on the global market through the imposition of a blockade.
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026 +21
Not possible with the current USA. Everything they do needs to make some powefull people very rich else there is no political will for it
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OddGold348 Mar 17, 2026 +7
Hence the word "imagine"
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Potential-Formal8699 Mar 17, 2026 +4
Why would you help someone when you can just go in and take over? /s
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tylerwithasweateron Mar 17, 2026 +11
USA doesn’t even need to help the gov just needs to leave people alone. Cuba is more than capable of taking care of its people and would be even better without embargo and sanctions
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Yuukiko_ Mar 17, 2026 +2
those MAGA people are going to be very confused by the large increase in Iranian and Cuban terrorism...
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ThreeHolePunch Mar 17, 2026 +3
Uh, we are actively preventing other nations from helping Cuba. We blocked shipped trying to deliver fuel. We are the baddies.
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imtourist Mar 17, 2026 +2
The US is going to topple the Cuban government so that the 1% living in exile (self imposed) in Miami can come in an subjugate the rest of the population. Anybody thinking that they are doing it for the regular people is wrong. Expect to see Trump resorts and hotels all over the island in 5 years.
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MilmoWK Mar 17, 2026 -1
Maybe they will move home and turn Florida blue
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TheStLouisBluths Mar 17, 2026 +1
What are you talking about? They help hundreds of billionaires every year!
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__Nels__Oleson__ Mar 17, 2026
Probably win more hearts and minds but those aren't as easily exploited.
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Stonkmarket_is_fake Mar 17, 2026 -22
Tell me how, why do you think people haven't overthrow the gvt? Resources will be taken right away, don't be naive
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The_caroon Mar 17, 2026 +5
The powergrid is collapsing because of an american blockade of oil tankers, a blockade from the country that the Cubans sees as the main antagonist since the 50s. You now expect them to do a coup-d'état and finally join the US? The US with the obvious demented moron at the helm?
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alrodri08 Mar 17, 2026 -1
Power grid has been collapsing there even with the free oil from Venezuela. They've had rolling blackouts for over a decade.
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assaub Mar 17, 2026 +6
Rolling blackouts is not total collapse, an already bad situation has been significantly exacerbated by the USA.
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Imaginary-Ad-7919 Mar 17, 2026 +58
Trump is getting ready for his next adventure, cut the power lines is a start.
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xone_br33 Mar 17, 2026 +122
I will fix this headline, illegal USA interference on Cuba makes their eletric grip collapses,. ...
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SadBurrito84 Mar 17, 2026 +9
The proof reading is in the puddin.
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AssistanceCheap379 Mar 18, 2026 +1
Trump getting ready to invade Cuba after a failed war in the Middle East
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1046737 Mar 17, 2026 -34
What law requires the US to trade with Cuba, or to assist Venezuelan thugs in shipping oil in exchange for Cuban mercenaries?
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MaloortCloud Mar 17, 2026 +23
The issue isn't the US refusing to trade with Cuba. It's that the US has imposed tariff threats and travel restrictions on countries or corporations who will. Cuba relied on Venezuelan oil because it was c****, but also because the US prevents them from buying oil from anyone else. The thug here is the US.
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xone_br33 Mar 17, 2026 +8
You are deluded.
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ThreeHolePunch Mar 17, 2026 +6
What? We cut off their fuel and blocked all ships from other countries that attempted to deliver fuel. We actively CAUSED Cuba's grid to fail. We are killing people in Cuba.
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curtyshoo Mar 17, 2026 -17
They're losing their grip?
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bio4m Mar 17, 2026 +101
And Americans wonder why so many people around the world hate them. Its amazing how few people in the US know about the horrible stuff their government does around the world For the unaware this should be interesting reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_involvement\_in\_regime\_change](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change) (specifically the Cold War to today)
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IamaFunGuy Mar 17, 2026 +57
Oh some of us are pretty aware thanks.
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__Nels__Oleson__ Mar 17, 2026 +4
Not enough.
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curtyshoo Mar 17, 2026 +10
It started long, long before DT, I can assure you. For regime change, see various EU countries in Africa through the years.
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FromYonderWoods Mar 17, 2026 +13
I don't wonder. If you think the shit our government does globally is bad you should see the underbelly of the US internally... Prisons and Jails housing mostly people who's only real crime is being poor, using methods that international community recognize as torture. Ever wonder why in theInternational Classification of Diseases describes Complex PTSD but the DSM V doesnt? Brother if we acknowledge that condition as real we'd have to reckon with the reality that our 'justice' system is a bespoke soul-breaking machine designed to dehumanize those in its grasp. People dying in the street from totally preventable ailments if only they weren't so f****** gross and poor we might give nought of a shit about them to help. Sadly though they've chosen to be ill and homeless and so like so much dew, come the late morning sun, they evaporate from our view and likewise, our thoughts. Ours is a nation made by monsters.
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MichelangeBro Mar 17, 2026 -1
The shit your government does abroad is miles worse than what it's doing at home, and the shit it does at home is pretty f****** bad.
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FromYonderWoods Mar 17, 2026 -9
I would be willing to bet theres nothing we've done abroad that we haven't tried out on our own population in some way. The US is absolutely destructive globally but the kind of nation thats not only willing to peel strips off innocent tribesmen but is good at it didn't learn by watching. The shit that goes on in the local county jail violates international conventions regarding torture and humane treatment, what do you think goes on in the spaces we can't see? On more than one occasion this country has dropped bombs on its own people on its own soil, infected people with diseases of every stripe and every day a handful of DHS/DCFS/Foster Care workers across the country traffic kids into slavery. People held in chains made to work in the hot sun picking cotton, beaten if you resist. Freedom? Freedom dont live here anymore man
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MichelangeBro Mar 17, 2026 +4
I'm sorry, you have every right to be disgusted with America's domestic affairs, but you're showing a staggering amount of ignorance about your country's foreign actions. Ask the hundreds of Iranian women and children who have been bombed out of existence just in the past month. Ask the millions of Iraqis and Afghans who have been killed since 9/11. Ask the Vietnamese villages who were napalmed alive while *being allied with you*.
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FromYonderWoods Mar 17, 2026 +1
I fully agree there are worse things going on in the world that are the direct, tangible results of not only American policy but policy put in place with the expectation of such results. I'm not arguing what we do to ourselves is worse, im saying if a nation will do what we do to ourselves, that government will definitely do worse things abroad. I could've articulated my point differently but I don't disagree with anything you've said.
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MichelangeBro Mar 18, 2026 +1
Your initial comment that I replied to literally starts with: > If you think the shit our government does globally is bad you should see the underbelly of the US internally... Which is making the exact opposite point that you're saying now. Just so you're aware.
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FromYonderWoods Mar 18, 2026
Does it? In my mind that is meant to indicate "the worst stuff happens out of sight" but I was just being too nuanced I guess. Let me restate my thesis in a simpler, more concise way - "usa bad. Probably worse than you think"
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sergiocamposnt Mar 17, 2026
> Its amazing how few people in the US know about the horrible stuff their government does around the world Yeah, the propaganda has been so strong across the decades that many people still don't know that the US has been the biggest villain of the world since Nazi Germany ended.
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bio4m Mar 17, 2026 +4
Im talking more about the level of obliviousness of the average US citizen, not if the actions were justified or not
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Nal1999 Mar 17, 2026
If you ask Russians or other Soviet citizens about the USSR they'll answer that "We know how shitty our government is,we just don't bother them and live a peaceful life". If you ask Americans about the USA they'll answer "The government is here for Freedom". These aren't my words but what the intelligence agencies of the 2 countries said. Americans are unbelievably gullible,they eat everything up and more.
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sharingan10 Mar 17, 2026 -10
China hasn’t done a foreign coup, and the last war it fought was in 1979. I don’t think it’ll be “Noble”, but I also don’t think it’ll try to force other countries to be like it. Their standard procedure seems to be “we will trade with you, we won’t meddle in your business if you don’t meddle in ours.” That doesn’t seem noble, but it doesn’t seem bad at all. And I’ll take “not bad” over “evil”
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pinkmeanie Mar 17, 2026 +15
Hong Kong and Tibet and the various ethnic groups they've genocided within China would like a word
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sharingan10 Mar 17, 2026 -4
That didn’t happen; I’ve seen genocide live streamed for years. I’ll buy that when I see jokhang temple in rubble and a few dozen mass graves.
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sharingan10 Mar 17, 2026 +1
“It’s just economic warfare” Take a quick google and look up how many countries the U.S. is sanctioning for me real quick
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nugentismycenter Mar 17, 2026
See Africa https://hir.harvard.edu/chinese-investment-in-africa-a-reexamination-of-the-zambian-debt-crisis/ Since 2008, China's economy has experienced massive growth, with nominal GDP rising from approximately  4.59 trillion in 2008 to over 18 trillion in recent years. yes, China has not done what the US has done though because they couldn't until now.
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nugentismycenter Mar 17, 2026 +4
They never had the power the US had unchallenged for a good portion of the last 80 years as the US was the main superpower . Once the US degrades further and China has absolutely no rivals they will be able to do whatever they want and no one will stop them. First there will be a honeymoon phase and soft power buildup. They are doing a new kind of imperialism in Africa. Ask the Uigers and Tibetans if they are bad.
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sharingan10 Mar 17, 2026 +3
Tons of countries have had the ability to do invasions despite not being friendly with the U.S. Russia in Chechnya for example. >theyre doing a new imperialism in Africa In Sudan the U.S. is helping the uae arm the rsf. We transfer weapons to the uae which use them in Sudan. In the Congo we help Rwanda arm rebels like M21. The IMF imposes debt traps on most African countries. We help despotic leaders like Ruto in Kenya or Al Sisi in Egypt lock up political prisoners. China doesn’t do that. In Angola the main railroad from Benguela was destroyed by U.S. backed rebels Ofer decades of war, and China rebuilt it. I don’t expect China to be altruistic, but I also don’t have evidence they’ve done anything on any way comparable to the U.S. or Europe in African nations. >ask Tibetans or uighurs if they’re bad I can buy a plane ticket and go to Lhasa or Urumqi. I can easily find people on rednote and ask them how life in in kashgar (which I have). Xinjiang is one of the most visited tourist destinations in China. I also know people who cannot go to live with family in rafah and who have lost people to ongoing violence. If there’s some type of genocide going on in China why can I actually go and visit and see it for myself and not see cities in rubble? I know folks who have been to Gaza; they can smell death. I can look online and see a person in a hospital bed burning alive. I can’t see that in China and I can go look for myself. I can meet hui Muslims and see that largely they seem to live normal lives.
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strawmangva Mar 17, 2026 -15
As part of the west I applaud the Americans to do the dirty work so we sleep well and rich at night
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JackBlackBowserSlaps Mar 17, 2026 +9
Spoken like a truly selfish coward.
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bio4m Mar 17, 2026 +4
The sheer irony of that is incredible. Do you even understand how many of the worlds current problems stem from actions the US and UK undertook in the last 50 years? The middle east is a prime example of how this meddling backfired on the west
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026
If you think that your quality of life is not going to degrade an insane amount in the next few years, then you're delusional.
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strawmangva Mar 17, 2026 -4
My country is too rich
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026 +1
Are you though? The US is the richest country on earth. Yet there are people starving and living in the streets. People are dying because they can't afford treatment for their health issues. All of these things could happen to you as well no matter how rich your country is
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strawmangva Mar 17, 2026 -3
The only thing that really concerns me is ai. Rest, not so much
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gabibb2 Mar 17, 2026
That's the truth that most Americans refuse to accept.    
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invalidpassword Mar 17, 2026 +16
Trump's still deeply involved in a "war" with Iran and now it's Cuba's turn. He said yesterday that he will overtake them. As usual with Trump, if he wants a country, he claims he will take the island as soon as possible. He showed manic obsession about it. We're spending approximately $60 million a day on Iran so far. He sometimes calls it an "excursion". I'll bring a potato salad — I make a killer potato salad — no sweet pickles.
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noseshimself Mar 17, 2026
> Trump's still deeply involved in a "war" with Iran and now it's Cuba's turn. It has been since the USA illegally attacked Venezuela to interrupt Cuba's energy supply so what changed now?
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deadheffer Mar 17, 2026 +2
If he takes action on Cuba, I hope our allies jettison us. The damage is just about done. Illegal military invasion of Cuba, or the same kidnapping as Venezuela, the global community needs to chip in on fighting him politically. My neighbors and family are sleep walking zombies.
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BigUpSideD0wn Mar 17, 2026 -1
Tell me more about this potato salad. Is it a warm potato salad or a cold one?
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nugentismycenter Mar 17, 2026 +2
Who eats it warm?
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HolyMoleyGuacamoly Mar 17, 2026 +10
real crime against humanity stuff here from the US
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samuel-not-sam Mar 18, 2026 +2
It is estimated by The Lancet that American sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1971
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fcatw Mar 18, 2026 +2
What a great opportunity this would have been to do something good in the world, instead, as expected by this administration, more evil
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Crittsy Mar 17, 2026 +11
I wish another country would endeavour to supply to supply them with oil as a big "F*** You" to the orange monkey
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pinkmeanie Mar 17, 2026 +31
That's what Venezuela was doing
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Prestigious_Load1699 Mar 18, 2026 +2
And Venezuela was doing such a great job feeding its own people…
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026 -8
China and Russia could come together and do it. But China is too restrained and so focused on trade that they don't want to sour their relationship with the US. Not sure why China is like this, but maybe they know things that I don't.
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mike45010 Mar 17, 2026 +35
You’re not sure why China would risk its economically imperative relationship with the US over a minor ally on the other side of the world?
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026 -11
The US needs China at least as much as China needs the US. And at some point China will have to fight the US to become the new Hegemon. Having an ally like Cuba which is close to the US is very helpful. Cuba would be Chinas Taiwan or Israel. If China likes it or not, all the wars Trump started were to control the Oil going to China. The US is already fighting China.
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mike45010 Mar 17, 2026 +14
Right, but again, why would China risk all of that right now? It’s not ready to fight the US.
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026 -4
Hard to say. The question is if the US is going to be weaker in the future than it is now. If the US truly "cleans up" North and South America so that they control all the countries in the region, and they can at least control the middle east enough to keep it in chaos, then I don't see the US weakening much. I don't expect china to start an all out war, but they need to do more to secure some key alliances.
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dicrydin Mar 17, 2026 +10
CCP hasn’t exactly been the best ally to many of its closest neighbors. They were quite friendly with Vietnam and Philippines, but their self-imposed 9-dash line made the two smaller countries extremely hesitant to trust China and its territorial ambitions.
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broccollinear Mar 17, 2026 -1
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. The seeds of chaos have already been sown, the US is going buck-wild destabilizing the Western hemisphere and really it’s just a matter of time before the global balance of power shifts.
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026 +6
Iran was 100% a mistake. But Venezuela worked out very well for the US government. I fear that Cuba is also going to fall and be controlled by the US soon enough. From a geopolitical standpoint alone, I don't think the US is making a mistake with Cuba. But I could be wrong
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noseshimself Mar 17, 2026 -1
> I don't think the US is making a mistake with Cuba. But I could be wrong Explain what is making this superior to Russia invading Ukraine? The fact that the corpses are not stacked up in public?
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ScriptKiddo69 Mar 17, 2026 +3
I am talking specifically from the perspective of geopolitics. Of course morally it is very wrong. Russia invading Ukraine was a mistake because Russia failed in achieving a quick victory. This showed the world that Russia is weaker than assumed (Which, funnily enough might also be what is happening with the US in Iran). Imagine Russia did what the US did im Venezuela, or what Russia did in Belarus. The US is currently basically winning a war against cuba without shooting a single bullet. And no country is doing anything about it.
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noseshimself Mar 17, 2026 +1
> The US is currently basically winning a war against cuba without shooting a single bullet It's more like winning a war by randomly shooting others. The problem will be China having enough of it (first Venezuela, now Iran -- I don't know how funny benevolent brother Xi is considering someone plugging up his sources of c**** oil). I guess Brazil will be next.
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HeronOrganic3727 Mar 17, 2026 +3
Didn’t this happen days ago?
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circles_squares Mar 18, 2026 +4
Why are we Americans so cruel. This means medication that requires refrigeration, hospitals, food, i mean where is our humanity.
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karifugere Mar 17, 2026 +4
Just another war crime that will go unnoticed.
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Stocky_Platypus Mar 17, 2026 +5
Such a good Christian move by the US. Following the old but good Jesus teaching, "love thy neighbor, unless they are commie bastards and if there are inflict as much pain and suffering as possible to force them to capitulate"
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4RCH43ON Mar 17, 2026 +3
How can this blockade not be considered terrorism?  People are going to die.
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Coreantes Mar 17, 2026 +1
Yes. I mean, we truly never evolved, is what I’m thinking. It’s just the world turning back to whoever is the strongest wins. This is the domino that Trump wants to have fall down. Venezuela was just a domino prior to this one.
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OkLaw4581 Mar 17, 2026 -2
 Lol, Cuba had made zero effort to reform its system. They repeatedly spat on China, when they suggested sensible economic reforms. 
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Taurpion Mar 17, 2026 +2
Elaborate on how that has anything to do with the blockade not being considered terrorism? “Another country does something I don’t like” isn’t the moral high ground here.
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FillFrontFloor Mar 17, 2026 +2
Anyone has any historical or interesting read or even podcast on what the beef between the US and cuba? Surely the government can't still be pissed about the missile crisis and the bay of pigs? 
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onieronautilus9 Mar 17, 2026 +16
“Cuba: An American History” by Ada Ferrer is a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the history of Cuba with an emphasis on its relationship with the US and it is very good. Definitely worth reading.
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HAL9000_1208 Mar 17, 2026 +31
The government is pissed that the Cubans ousted the bloody puppet dictator and the American companies that propped him up to replace it with a socialist government... Cuba is the USA 'backyard" too close to home to have "pinkies" daring to desire having their natural resources to not be exploited by their empire.
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FillFrontFloor Mar 17, 2026 +3
That was close to 80 years ago, they are still mad?
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PancAshAsh Mar 17, 2026 +11
The POTUS was a teenager during the poorly named Cuban Missile Crisis, it was almost certainly a formative memory.
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HAL9000_1208 Mar 17, 2026 +14
Unironically, YES. They cannot allow a small neighbouring country to escape their sphere of influence, it would set a precedent for all the other puppet states in the region.
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moreobviousthings Mar 17, 2026 +13
Communism. At this point, for republicans, hating on Cuba has become habit. But for Trump specifically, the fact that Obama made an effort to normalize relations.
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JaaacckONeill Mar 17, 2026 +1
You don't want Cuba to get the capacity to launch Russian drones. Geopolitics is a much bigger factor than any one president. And rhetoric regarding geopolitics is never truly honest, regardless of who's saying it.
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Skoldeen Mar 17, 2026 +2
Blowback season 2 podcast covers Cuba
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TheSouthernCommunist Mar 17, 2026 +3
One of the best!
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Nal1999 Mar 17, 2026 +5
Cuba is a Symbol against American imperialism which sits literally outside of the US. They had an American backed dictator taken down by a Communist government and the Dictators men fled the island for the US (see Mr. Rubio for example). Now Trump (who was a teen back then and still has the same boner) and Rubio have the chance to colonise the island again and stop the shame that was Bay of Pigs (and Mason killing Kennedy as we all know).
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British_Commie Mar 17, 2026 +3
>Dictators men fled the island for the US (see Mr. Rubio for example). Mild correction: Rubio's parents actually *fled Batista's regime* in 1956, not the Revolution. Rubio straight-up lied about his parents fleeing the Revolutionary government in 1959.
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Nal1999 Mar 17, 2026 +1
Wait,what? I thought the reason he wanted the island was because he had to flee from the Communists. WTF?
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lacyboy247 Mar 17, 2026
Real life lore has a great vid about this.
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FillFrontFloor Mar 17, 2026 +1
I'll check it out, thx
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kennedyswise Mar 17, 2026
And now an earthquake
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PracticalYellow3 Mar 17, 2026
Wow, that makes five times so far this week. 
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TheTrub Mar 17, 2026
After this happened, Cuba was hit with a magnitude 6 earthquake just off the coast of Guantanamo. Earthquakes and sand mix, but not in a good way. Maybe this will expedite some aid to Cuba but I’m not optimistic.
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AvaTryingToSurvive Mar 17, 2026
More deaths in the big black book of capitalism.
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RelativeCareless2192 Mar 17, 2026 -1
Jill stein supporters voted to end the Gaza genocide and instead they got a Cuba genocide. Truly 4D chess
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i-read-it-again Mar 17, 2026
Is that making Cuba great again . Thanks mr trump
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