By Jo Nova
Is this the End of Communism in Cuba?
We don’t hear much about Cuba in Australia, but it is suffering rolling 16 hour blackouts, the streets are filled with rubbish, people are cooking with wood and charcoal, and the airports have run out of jet fuel. The US is offering food aid, but only on the condition that the Cuban government does not interfere with the delivery.
Cuba’s fuel crisis has become a waste crisis as many garbage trucks don’t have enough gas to pick up rubbish which is piling up on Havana’s street corners https://t.co/AQ50L5j9KG pic.twitter.com/3BhugSOcJJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 16, 2026
The US is blockading shipments of oil to Cuba in an effort to get the communist regime to talk. Cuba relied on Venezuelan shipments of oil, but after the US captured President Maduro, Cuba lost one of their best allies, and the US has stopped the oil shipments. Trump also signed an order last month declaring Cuba to be a national security threat and he threatened to put tariffs on any nation that sent oil to Cuba. Trump has said that “Cuba is a failed state” and that he won’t mind if there is regime change. “I don’t think we need (to take) any action,” Trump said on Jan. 4, adding: “Cuba looks like it’s ready to fall.”
Has Cuba Reached the Point of No Return?
— By Sarah Anderson, PJ Media
Power outages have increased throughout the nation, with some impacting hundreds of thousands of people at a time and lasting for days. Public transportation has come to a standstill, and there are reports that citizens are not currently allowed to fill up their own vehicles. Food prices are through the roof. Resorts and tourist attractions have shut down. People are using charcoal or wood to cook. Hospital and schools that were already barely functioning are not viable. Several companies and embassies from other countries have plans in place to stockpile supplies and/or evacuate their people.
While the immediate cause of Cuba’s pain is the oil embargo, decades of profligate communist economics, and brutal suppression of political dissidents meant healthy workers were fleeing, and the few resources Cuba has were wasted. Rumors suggest as many as a million people have fled out of a population of 11 million. Things were so bad, Cuba, known as ‘the sugar bowl of the world’, had to import sugar.
The communist economy builds things no one wants — like 7000 hotels rooms, no one uses:
A programme of hotel building has been under way, with 7,000 more rooms added since 2019, despite tourist numbers halving in the same period. And no one answers the question why.
The lobby is clean and the shop is open, selling beach towels and hats. The staff are welcoming, their uniforms pressed. The swimming pool is empty and there are no guests. I ask when the last came through and the receptionist tells me four years ago.
Meanwhile, in 2021 came a unification of two currencies, one pegged to the US dollar, one local, which resulted in hyperinflation that collapsed the value of state sector pay and pensions.
José Daniel Ferrer was once the only effective opposition leader in Cuba, but he spent 12 years in jail, where he saw two people beaten to death, and finally he fled. His view is ““There is nothing to lose with the fall of the regime,” he says bitterly. “Rather we will gain freedom, opportunity and prosperity.””
Rebel News interviewed people in Cuba and found some waving American flags, and others with hopeful signs that Trump will save them like he saved Venezuela.
In the soft West it is easy to forget how quickly energy can be weaponized by an adversary, especially if we don’t have our supply chains locked up.
Just as TRUMP is facilitating the removal of totalitarian regimes elsewhere, they are becoming more emboldened and entrenched in Western Europe, Australia and Canada, particularly as most are lacking any effective conservative opposition leadership.
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China has likely found that to establish dominant communist governments in democratic countries like Australia, UK, NZ, South America that they already exist. The trick is to infiltrate and control the conservatives.
As Tony Abbott so clearly demonstrated, an actual conservative government would romp home and be immediately destroyed by friends of generous communists. Then you can move in real dedicated communist allies like Albanese, Wong, Rudd, Bandt with strong support from blatant China spruiker Keating.
You can destroy a country quickly with a communist controlled minority government as long as you can divide and cripple the dominant conservatives. Look at South Africa. They have power only 8 hours a day. The traffic lights are all stolen for the copper.
That is the entire purpose of fake movements Woke and Green. Divide the conservatives. Boys can be girls. White Privilege. Carbon taxes. And you don’t even need the increasingly conservative anti union workers. The CFMEU turned water cannons on their own members.
Finally you can import millions of voters for free everything as long as you promise Sharia law. And then pretend the crime rate has not skyrocketed and they are not all on welfare. Premier Daniel Andrews showed how you can buy all the journalists anyway and they write what you tell them to write.
And centralizing and crippling and taxing all energy supplies is part of the plan. No more manufacturing.
As long as the conservatives don’t unite, it’s all quite easy. And people you would not trust with your car are running the place.
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And a miserable ghost and other members of “China Associates” business interests, Kevin 007 another, and Dan from VIC
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How he was ever accepted in a conservative party needs explanation. His mother was Labor Royalty.
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The explanation is that the Liberals are not a true conservative party and are dominated by the Far Left Photios faction misleadingly called “The Moderates”, rebranded from “The Wets”.
The primary purpose of The Moderates appears to be to keep the Liberals OUT of power, something they are very good at.
Notwithstanding the recent Federal leadership change, it remains to be seen if the Liberals can become a conservative party again, something they haven’t been for decades.
I no longer waste my time with them. They have had too many opportunities and blown the lot. I will be supporting One Nation.
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Preferential voting in Australia allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference on their ballot paper. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the first-choice votes, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated, and their votes are redistributed to the remaining candidates based on the voters’ next preferences, continuing until one candidate achieves a majority.
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Preferential voting makes sure that you can’t get elected if half the electorate doesn’t want you. –
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From my fly on the wall position at the time he presented as a very well educated lawyer-business man and bearing gifts of donations including establishing a fund raising organisation for the Liberal Party NSW. However, his pre-selection as candidate for the safe Liberal electorate seat of Wentworth was decided as used to be for all candidates by local branch members being addressed by prospective candidates and then secret ballot to select one.
The record shows that branch stacking was the winning tactic and the sitting Liberal MP lost the pre-selection competition between candidates.
I don’t believe that most within the Liberal Party realised that their new member and friend was planning what we have watched underway increasing in influence gradually ever since.
The early challenge to Dr Brendan Nelson who was Opposition Leader after the Howard Government was voted out of office by Rudd Labor in November 2007 was the first warning in my opinion, however earlier clashes internally should have been, and probably were for at least some Liberals. And after Nelson was replaced by Turnbull he was soon unpopular and in 2009 Abbott replaced him as Opposition Leader.
Despite in 2010 and Abbott leading the Coalition to effectively defeat Gillard Labor (Rudd had been challenged and lost the leadership) and regaining all the electorate seats won by Rudd Labor in 2007, forcing Gillard Labor into an alliance minority government, and in 2013, after Rudd with Albanese his lobbyist regaining the position of Prime Minister from Gillard, the Abbott led Coalition defeated Rudd back again Labor decisively, a landslide win.
By late 2015 Turnbull was intent on replacing Abbott as Prime Minister and succeeded, but at the 2016 election Turnbull led Government lost all the Abbott 2013 seat gains and survived by one National Party seat gain.
And from then to 2018 Turnbull was struggling and was challenged by Dutton but resulting in Morrison becoming the Prime Minister.
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Turnbull was one of the people pushing the RTE to Howard even before he got into Parliament, and was the one who talked Howard out of handing over the PM’s job to Costello prior to the 2007 election.
The pre Turncoat intervention plan was for Costello and Downer to swap jobs, give Downer a Budget and let Costello do some overseas trips to get face to face with other world leaders, and then for Howard to stand down, hand over to Costello with Downer as his Deputy and retire at the 2007 election.
Somehow Malcontent Turncoat managed to talk Howard out of that as he had ambitions of his own to become the next PM.
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About the time Turncoat was challenging Abbott, we were warned from overseas that Australian and Canadian conservative PMs were about to be replaced by commos and it happened.
Also, Turncoat rolled up with a carpetbag full of cash to bail the Lib party out of its financial woes.
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The late and great Jim Molan warned us for years about our parlous situation with oil importation. And this generation of politicians were either not born or were too young to appreciate what we went through in the 70’s when we were starved of oil. And as the old adage says: ‘those who ignore history…’
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There is no excuse not to know history, especially relatively recent history, no matter what a person’s age is.
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In the woke world, there is no history. And science and engineering are matters of opinion. As are facts.
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Reality has the final vote against Woke.
That which cannot be paid, will not be paid. That which cannot be done, will not be done.
Physics and Economics mostly destroy Woke, after politics has expended billions for nothing.
The Pollies torture the masses that elected them. Kind of funny, if you think about it.
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There is if you are in a Year Zero cult … which is what wokeism is.
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I wonder what happened to the substantial US oil purchase by PM Morrison after that state dinner in Washington organised by POTUS Trump and the weekend retreat following, the beginning of the AUKUS partnership signed in 2021 by POTUS Biden and UK PM Johnson with PM Morrison?
As I recall it the oil purchase involved the US storing it for Australia and our Federal Government planned to develop more storage capacity here.
Australia does of course have local oil fields supplies and used but only two oil refineries remaining in operation.
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The oil never came to Australia because it lacked storage facilities and still does.
It was stored within the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) under a 10-year lease agreement. (1.7 million barrels.)
In 2022, Australia sold its stockpile as part of the International Energy Agency (IEA) action to stabilise global prices following the invasion of Ukraine.
So, Australia is back to having no strategic stockpile of oil, just as our anti-Australian Government likes it.
In any case, you have to wonder how useful a strategic oil stockpile would be if stored in the USA 2-3 weeks away by ship.
Just imagine how much storage could have been purchased with the amount of money thrown away on wind, solar and Big Battery plantations.
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And drilling for oil and gas and fracking is banned over much of Australia.
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Incidentally a modern supertanker can hold over 3 million barrels.
So our entire strategic oil reserve, before the Government disposed of it, was only about half the contents of a supertanker.
Pathetic, really.
It just goes to show how stupid (or malicious, pick one or both) our politicians are as are the public serpents who tell them what to think.
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How hard would it be to purchase some old product tankers and store crude in them, positioned around the country, or pay Santos to build a large crude tank at Moomba and store crude there, on our soil.
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It wouldn’t be hard at all and is an obvious thing to do. Which is why it won’t be done in Australia.
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Even if we had a strategic reserve stored in the US, it would not be shipped to Australia during the next global war.
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And, as they sat in the classics:
“Oils ain’t oils, Sol”.
The Cooper basin oil is almost exclusively very light fractions; so light that “locals” very quickly discovered that “samples” from the ponds holding “test-shot” overflow, would , with a bit of filtering, fuel all manner of “farm machinery”, especially “older” machines.
The stuff that has been oozing out of the ground, in the Arabian peninsula, since “Biblical” times, contains a lot fewer light fractions and is more “bituminous”; definitely MOT for the tank of your new Land-Cruiser.
Different grades of “oil” are traded at values / prices set in SINGAPORE.
Why Singapore?
Check out its location. Apart from being a serious financial and general trade hub, more oil tankers travel via the seaways around Singapore than any other place on the planet.
Consider the geo-politics of the vast amounts of “Middle-Eastern” crude trundling past Singapore and the Sunda Strait, etc. There are other “choke-points further east, hence, several of the “hot-spots” during WW2 in the “Pacific Theatre”. There are several valid reasons for the “close” relationship” between the religio-imperialist “neo-Persians” and the bio-warfare enthusiasts in China. Has nobody else stopped to consider the philosophical gymnastics involved when a ruthless theocracy and a GODLESS crypto-empire get together for “mutual benefit”? (And it has been going on since 1979).
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Even though our crude is classified as ‘light’, it will provide gasoline, jet A1 and diesel, our main transport fuels.
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What about the old Commonwealth Oil Refineries oil wells around Western Queensland and especially around Roma-Winton districts?
I was told a long time ago by a family member of a pastoral company in that area about capped oil wells, and that they were capped during the 1900s because Middle East oil was cheaper and therefore COR could not commercially benefit from the then capped oil wells?
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And where is Australia’s Strategic Oil Reserve located? In North America and only a few weeks supply at that. Try getting that across the Pacific Ocean in troublesome times.
It should be located here in Australia and be at least 6 months Supply on hand.
The Libs/Nats had 12 years to sort this out and did SFA.
Go One Nation.
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As I mentioned above, it no longer exists.
Our genius government sold it off in 2022 just about a year after it was purchased.
(SARC.) Because, who needs oil when we have so much wind and solar? (/SARC.)
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Hope they bought low and sold high, but on their past record, it was probably the opposite.
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South Africa had a worse situation!! An oil embargo supported by the whole world, except of course for countries like Indonesia & others, which traded oil for payment in Platinum bullion & probably a spot of gold here & there. Hypocrisy is not a phenomenon common only in today’s world!!
Oil was stored in disused coal mines scattered across the country and were interconnected with pipelines. We actually never experienced fuel shortages ever. I suppose clever forward planning is foreign to Australian governments.
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South Africa also use coal liquefaction to supply about 40% of its oil.
Said to be one of the world’s largest “greenhouse” gas emitters. Ho hum.
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Not excusing any of the politicians but Singapore oil refineries are our major source of fuels and they buy oil from various suppliers.
And as a closely allied nation, for example the Singapore Army have a training ground here and the Airforce store aircraft and train pilots in WA.
Australia does have a not too far away supply source.
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Yet another reason why a country should not be dependent upon imported fossil fuels. The ends do not justify the means. Trump is no better than Putin or Xi.
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Presumably you would also agree we should notbe dependent on those dictators for our rare earth’s and renewable. China makes 80% of the world’s solar panels.
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Presuming a leftist would agree with logical and rational points is very presumptuous indeed!
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Apart from nuclear and hydro there is no viable, inexpensive and reliable alternative to imported, fossil fuels. Especially for Third World countries like Cuba who can’t afford to subsidise expensive wind, solar and Big Battery plantations.
And not all countries have suitable geography for hydro or space for expansion of existing hydro.
Also, liquid hydrocarbons are still needed for transport.
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And this is a description of Australia, except we export our energy resources and stupidly try and phase out their use for Australia and Australians. Absolute industrial and economic lunacy!
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Never forget the old saying:
“Most civilizations die from suicide, not murder”
Though, in the case of Oz, it seems there is significant “pre-emptive euthanasia” going on.
Join the dots.
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Cuba’s communist regime is what has made it a poor, Third World country.
Prior to the communist takeover Cuba was right up there economically and socially with the mid sized European countries like Belgium and The Netherlands.
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Remember the US used to supply fuel oil for North Koreas power stations in exchange for them not firing missiles all over the place, another Communist armpit of a country.
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It’s better to depend on imported hardware for fundamentally flawed solar and wind power, is it…?
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So you agree with Trump.
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Apparently he does but is totally unaware.
Touché 🙂
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Simon you qualify for being an Australian politician, stupidity in the extreme!
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We shouldn’t be dependent on imported anything.
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It is absolutely awful that it has to come to this, but it does. The only thing keeping Cuba afloat for the past couple of decades is ‘selling’ human capital to other Latin-American nations. Cuban doctors, soldiers, security specialists, etc. are ‘sold’ to neighboring countries for goods and services. It’s not exactly slavery, but it’s in the same neighborhood. That’s why Venezuela has so many Cuban doctors and why Maduro’s entire security team was Cubans. That was the price Cuba paid for Venezuelan oil.
Like Venezuela in the 1990s, Cuba in the 1950s was a wealthy country doing a booming business with America. Then came the politics of envy and communism, and both countries quickly became dirt-poor pariahs (but at least everyone was equally poor). In the 1970s/80s, Fidel emptied his prisons and sent the ‘worst’ of Cuba to America’s shores. As it turns out, many of them were in prison because they were anti-communists who fit with American culture like a glove and the Cuban community in Florida has thrived (unlike their countrymen who are still stuck on the island). Castro ‘brain drained’ his own country.
Sadly, like all good communists, Cuba’s leadership would rather let everyone starve than admit their glorious revolution failed. Which makes me appreciate just how exceptional Mikhail Gorbachev was. He’s the only communist leader I can think of who didn’t force his people to shoot their way out of communism. Dude deserves statues in his honor. Deng Xiaoping gets an honorable mention. He may not have ended communism in China, but his reforms in the 1980s set them on the path to rival America as the largest economy in the world and greatly improved the standard of living of his people. Unfortunately, the current Winnie the Pooh looking idiot in charge is in the process of undoing all those reforms, so China will likely slide back into full-blown communism and poverty and starvation before too long.
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The day that the Castro loony won power in Cuba was their end of the road and just a pity these Communist thugs and gangsters are still running the country.
Hopefully Trump can do something to help the poor people to overthrow these scumbags. And it needs to happen ASAP.
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“Foreign reporters—preferably American—were much more valuable to us at that time (1957-59) than any military victory. Much more valuable than recruits for our guerrilla force”,
Che Guevara, 1959
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I used to read the NY Times back in the late 1950’s and their useful idiot reporter Herbert Matthews who had glowing daily reportage about how Castro would reform everything especially income inequality and corruption.
The Castro’s did solve the income inequality issue. They stole every last peso from the people and now everyone has the same income: $16.00 to $25.00 a month. Those figures are NOT misprints.
The good news is America got Senator Ted Cruz from Texas whose father escaped Cuba. We may have gotten our next president: Marco Rubio – Former Florida Senator and now without any doubt, Trump’s best pick by far in this administration and our brilliant Secretary of State.
We also got another son of a Cuban emigre – Jeff Bezos – you know him as the founder of Amazon.
By the way our Cuban immigrant community are not fans of Communism
Thank you, thank you Fidel and Raoul Castro – you stupid morons!!!!!
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Apparently single use plastic bags are still available in Cuba. Note that in the piles of rubbish the much maligned “single use” plastic bags are performing a secondary function containing smaller quantities of rubbish, thereby helping in a forlorn way, the further distribution of discarded materials.
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Also consider the vast oil bearing shale deposits in Australia, mostly I understand are in QLD and NSW.
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They’ve been talking about using those for decades, most recently the Rundle deposit 1970’s to 1990’s but considered uneconomic then, all the more so now that Australia doesn’t have cheap energy.
I suspect coal liquefaction would be cheaper, if we still had cheap energy.
Australian oil shale was commercially exploited from 1865 and 1952 to produce kerosene, paraffin and lubricants.
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Fracking and seam gas could solve the extraction problem. We should be working on it. But no one is. We in Victoria are not allowed sell our coal.
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Newnes, is an abandoned oil shale mining site of the Wolgan Valley, is located in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.
The site that was operational in the early 20th century is now partly surrounded by Wollemi National Park. The settlement was originally built by the Commonwealth Oil Corporation.
The Wollemi Pine was discovered in a hidden valley about twenty or so years ago, an ancient tree. At Newnes today the ruins of the COR venture can be visited by tourists.
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Another saviour for South Africa was the Fischer Tropsch invention of the “ oil from coal”
extraction method. Using this system to produce petrol, diesel, fertiliser & many other products essential to the modern state is still in operation today. Shale deposits are extremely valuable. Only problem is the extremely stupid Australian politicians!!
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I understand that Hitler’s Germany was first to extract oil from coal as supplies of diesel fuel ran low during WW2?
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The main problem is the amount of energy required by the process. The net gain isn’t usually enough to justify it unless your losing WW2 or are otherwise desprerate. Nuclear enegy solves that problem, though.
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Dave, you’ve been listening to the purveyors of the Green New Deal haven’t you!!
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No, you misunderstand. I’m all for converting coal hydrocarbons into more practical forms and using them. It’s just a fact that to convert coal into oil and gas requires a lot of thermal energy. The Germans during WW2 had to burn a lot of coal in order to convert some of it into liquid fuels. If we need to convert coal into liqiud fuels now or in the future we can use nuclear for the thermal energy required.
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If even the Germans couldn’t make Communism work, it beats me that anyone else even thinks of trying.
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Alas, about a sixth of Germans who never lived under the glorious régime of the German Democratic Republic, still regard Communism as a worthy goal. And that ideologically-fixed fraction is enough to damage society by infiltration of institutions. The societal burden eventually metastasizes to consume all nett prosperity from the efforts of the population. Running out of other people’s money. And consequences are designated a failure of capitalism.
For Germany, the “harvest” of what has been sowed, significantly since the mid-1990’s, is about to “bloom” as their gas reserves are being rapidly consumed (at 4 to 7 TWh per day, depending on weather) with a high proportion being used to provide electrical power. Emergency meeting are being held but they are likely no more than a theatre; the general population being under-informed by the public media; and thus under-prepared for long power outages and lack of gas during the final heating months of March to May. Restrictions may have to be quietly phased in during February.
The big gas consumers in Germany are industry; they will be asked to reduce consumption to a minimum. Large companies have already moved substantial production out of the country, shedding about 200,000 direct jobs. Total taxes paid will be falling rapidly. Some municipalities have become technically insolvent as part of their income is from private industry within their municipality. (Gewerbesteuer — Municipal Trade Tax).
The golden goose is cooked.
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[Hi Bernd. Please use the email address you usually use when commenting, rather than switching to the one starting with bhf. Or let us know if you really need to switch. Thanks. – Raquel]
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Not ten minutes ago as I was scanning a UK newspaper, I saw an article suggesting destinations for travelers looking for some “winter sun”. Would you believe Cuba was on the list? I truly think journalism as a profession died some years ago.
Perhaps they’re just acknowledging that ‘poverty porn’ attracts a certain kind of tourist?
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Americans need only visit Californicatia if they want some poverty porn, you’ve got Skid Row downtown in LA and the Tenderloin District in Frisco for starters.
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Meanwhile oil refineries are closing and California has to import from the Bahamas of all places.
The billionaires are leavng: Sergey Brin and Larry Page who founded Google, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison/Oracle, Peter Thiel, Marc Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and many others.
Capital goes where it is treated well and California like Illinois and NY just want to steal it from the entrepreneurs. Boy, is that retarded and counter productive but Communism is built on envy and hatred yet no one loves money like a Communist.
Texas, Tennessee, Florida and the other MAGA states are loving the new arrivals.
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During the mid-1980s I was in LA attending a downtown building and construction exhibition and stayed at a hotel in Hollywood. Driving home in the evenings I was amazed to see so many homeless people wandering around the CBD and camped in doorways of buildings while LA Police patrolled every block by car.
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I heard that there is a Cuban son living in Canada?
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Spitting image of old Fidel.
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So it’s true!! He is a bastard!🤓🤓
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With all that Sugar Cane that they had they could have made their own Sustainable Fuel for transportation and to power the Electricity Grid in the Power Stations.
Oh dear, no more Sugar Cane to be had.
Oh Yes. Communism works. Just ask the old Soviet Union and East Germany..
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So pleased you mention sugar & fuel in the same sentence. I send to run a small motorcycle on fuel manufactured from sugar cane in South Africa. Really high octane as well, somewhere around 115 octane. Brand name was “Union Spirit”
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While freeing Cuba he is also enslaving Texas.
[Bold claims require evidence. – LVA]
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an economic attack on cuba followed by a military attack is a good thing?
what country do you want trump to attack next?
you really love a dictator don’t you?
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The economic attack was perpetrated by the Cuban govt.
The oil supply restriction is simply giving a wobbly structure a nudge. You can argue about it being right or wrong. But you can’t pretend it’s the cause of their woes.
As for a military attack. Who is saying that’s going to happen and who is saying it would be a good thing?
Surely you agree that things should change in Cuba. That things have been bad for a long time and significantly worsened in the last 3 years. The instrument of change can be argued.
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Richard Greene said,
..”an economic attack on cuba followed by a military attack is a good thing?
what country do you want trump to attack next?
Let’s try the Communist States of Nicaragua, Michigan, New York, California and Illinois. That will do for starters.
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And China will not attack Taiwan. Get real and wake up.
Putin attacked the UKR not the other way round.
Penguins to take over Madadasker next. LOL.
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On the subject of Cuba, it’s amazing how many Leftists, even to this day, idolise the psychopathic, racist murderer Che Guevara and wear his iconic image.
He also ran concentration camps to “re-educate” those deemed to be anti-social including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Afro-Cuban priests, many of whom he personally murdered whilst also personally overseeing hundreds of other murders.
That’s what happens when the Left get into power. You can already see incipient Leftist violence in the West and they haven’t yet fully consolidated their power base.
Antifa just murdered someone in France. Even the BBC admits to it.
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LVA Replies to unapproved comments are not possible…
maybe append this if you can (to #11)
https://apnews.com/article/stephen-colbert-james-talarico-donald-trump-fcc-806845facffd3ab3e30142971be16add
[Article is not evidence that Trump is “enslaving Texas”. It is evidence that the broadcast owner, CBS, is trying to avoid a US based FCC violation. In the US, if a live broadcast features a political aspirant who speaks to a current election, then the broadcaster is required by law to provide equal time to every other aspirant to that election. Mr Talarico’s opinions about the broadcast owner disallowing the live broadcast is more evidence of rhetoric and posturing than recognition of FCC law. – LVA]
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One eye on the wrong track once again. LOL.
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Everything LVA said in her edit to the original comment is correct. The irony here is that the harmed party being protected by that law, Talarico’s opponent in the primary, is not one of Trump’s allies. Talarico is running in a Democratic primary against none other than Jasmine Crockett, one of Trump’s most vociferous and deranged detractors.
How dare Trump protect the rights of Democrats from … other Democrats!!!
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2023922308289548454
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Cuba committed the “crime” of not bowing down and kissing the US Rs. The real criminals are the US who are participating in genocide of the people of Palestine and killing any innocent people who gets in their power grab of the globe.
Cuba has every right to take whatever path it wishes to take and the US has no right at all to interfere.
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When we say a country “has every right to take whatever path it wishes to take”, we’re usually saying that about countries where the people decide the path via the ballot box and their individual choices through enterprise. But in this case the path is determined by a dictatorship without public recourse. A country is its people. Not its dictatorship.
The Cuban govt does not have to bow down to the US. But it should bow to its citizens.
If you believe there is a genocide in Gaza then you need to look at Hamas and not Israel or the US.
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“Genocide in Gaza”
OK, Mohammed, go play with your goats.
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Spoken like a true Clydeside communist and total idiot.
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Communism has done nothing for the Cuban people except bring them all to the same level of poverty, those that can, escape.
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Soviet Union, East Germany, East Berlin, Albania.
All great examples of succesful Communism where the people were so happy.
North Korea is the next one to fall.
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It should be mentioned, in case anyone is daft enough to go to Cuba, that there are currently multiple severe epidemics of mosquito borne diseases . Dengue , chikungunya and oropouche at least.
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Going to Cuba is not really an option at this time. No passenger air carrier will fly there because they can’t get refueled.
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