Power outage, protests in Cuba

[crimsonaudio]

Not sure what’s happening or if the US is causing this, but a free and open Cuba would be amazing…

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030158095473664296

 

[crimsonaudio]

CNN: ‘We can’t take it anymore’: How Trump is pushing Cuba to the brink

 

[alabama mike1]

Hopefully the Cuban people can take their country back if that is what THEY want to do.

 

[Bazza]

Pretty cool......

Amazing times we are living in!

 

[bamaga]

Cuba, Ecuador, Venezuela, Iran. Rubio will be very busy as the President/leader of so many countries.

 

[75thru79]

It would really be pretty awesome for the Cuban people if they could embrace freedom and capitalism. Tourism could provide tons of jobs and help bring their country into the 21st century. No, it won't be perfect but would you rather have a job or just do nothing and be dependent on a government which doesn't have the capacity to care for it's own people. You can't feed millions on the money they make from cigars.

 

[JDCrimson]

It would really be pretty awesome for the Cuban people if they could embrace freedom and capitalism. Tourism could provide tons of jobs and help bring their country into the 21st century. No, it won't be perfect but would you rather have a job or just do nothing and be dependent on a government which doesn't have the capacity to care for it's own people. You can't feed millions on the money they make from cigars.

I wonder if they even know how to embrace freedom and capitalism? Its been 60-70 years since they had anything approaching freedom and capitalism.

 

[Padreruf]

The Cuban people are, by and large, a literate people. Many have nothing to do with their time but go to school. Capitalism would be a stretch, but some sort of path to economic competition and freedom would be wonderful. From my trips and acquaintances there I can tell you that this will not be a destitute island if the right steps are taken. I just hope there is a non-violent transfer of power from communism to whatever is coming next.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Cubans have lived in squalor since the Batista years and before. Castro supposedly taught them to read and gave them basic healthcare, albeit with a lot of rubles from the Soviets. But times have been lean ever since, and especially so since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

It's going to take a lot to overthrow the tyrants. I don't think a blockade is going to do it.

 

[Bazza]

State Secretary Marco Rubio is moving closer to the deal that President Donald Trump is hoping for, USA Today reported.

 

[81usaf92]

Cubans have lived in squalor since the Batista years and before. Castro supposedly taught them to read and gave them basic healthcare, albeit with a lot of rubles from the Soviets. But times have been lean ever since, and especially so since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

It's going to take a lot to overthrow the tyrants. I don't think a blockade is going to do it.

I think Trump supporters and anti communists have this “once they see the light” beliefs with every enemy or hostile country. The truth is when we don’t let things fail on their own they tend to find the Americans as an enemy to rally against. Look at Iran currently. Trumpers have been posting non stop about the jubilantion of the Iranians when we kill the ayatollah. But where are those posts now? Ask the Japanese how interrupting mao’s rebellion ended up.

My point is that not everything goes like the Arab spring in overthrowing age old regimes. It usually takes a few generations of lesser leaders to get the people ready to revolt. But foreign intervention usually makes the regime stronger.

 

[JDCrimson]

Israel has been wagging the US dog for decades. Think about it, they are a small, in the eyes of many, manufactured nation of a hunted people. Its not right but plausible for them to use all means necessary to keep the allied protection of the US including blackmail, extortion, and or propaganda. Probably the same with the Arabs in courting alliances with Russia and China.

The Mossad have an eye for an eye mentality and it is very easy to get sucked into their retribution. And more easily so if they have kompromat to use against you.

 

[Crimson1967]

Cubans have lived in squalor since the Batista years and before. Castro supposedly taught them to read and gave them basic healthcare, albeit with a lot of rubles from the Soviets. But times have been lean ever since, and especially so since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

It's going to take a lot to overthrow the tyrants. I don't think a blockade is going to do it.

Castro was a bad guy because he was a commie but it’s not like Batista’s Cuba was a bastion of freedom and probably the ones before him weren’t much better going back to Spanish rule.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Israel has been wagging the US dog for decades. Think about it, they are a small, in the eyes of many, manufactured nation of a hunted people. Its not right but plausible for them to use all means necessary to keep the allied protection of the US including blackmail, extortion, and or propaganda. Probably the same with the Arabs in courting alliances with Russia and China.

The Mossad have an eye for an eye mentality and it is very easy to get sucked into their retribution. And more easily so if they have kompromat to use against you.

I follow a couple of ex-CIA operatives on YouTube. John Kiriakou stated that the one spy agency he would never trust would be Mossad. They are single-minded, willing to sell themselves, their own, anything in the cause of Israel's continued existence. Ruthless. And he also said that they are that way because they have to be. Israel is surrounded by states and paramilitaries that would love to see them wiped off the face of the Earth.

I don't like what Israel is doing much of the time, but I also think we should sit out their squabbles. They seem to do a pretty good job of smacking their neighbors around when they threaten.