Posted on 10/31/2024 5:30:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
All the good baseball players have already left
They used to have great boxers as well.
Their auto mechanics are a bit behind the times. You can't just open the hood and fix a car these days w/o computers.
“Russians would certainly be willing to sell replacement parts.”
“sell” is the operative word ... what does Cuba have to pay the Russians with?
besides, sounds like these 30 year old power plants have been patched with chewing gum and bailing wire for 30 years, so a simple matter of “replacement parts” is long past ... cuba needs to build replacement power plants, and that’s not going to happen ...
“The winter tourist season is approaching. That means more Canadian dollars and Euros.”
not if 70% of havana has no electricity and no running water ...
“well i know BRICS will bail them out”
We will bail them out by taking in more fake-ass Cuban asylum seekers. Unless Trump gets elected!
Biden-Mayorkas have been flying them in for a few years. Haitians too, are flown in after completing a phone app.
Why would anybody choose to go to Cuba over say, The Dominican Republic?
It hardly matters how or how fast you can repair the problem if you never saw it coming!
That means it will happen again, and again....etc
I defy anyone to continue defending this dehumanizing system
bkmk
The Russian Revolution happened around 1920. The Soviet Union failed around 1990.
Castro's Cuba started around 1960. That was around 65 years ago and Cuba appears to be falling apart quickly.
The Chinese communists secured control of China around 1950. That was about 75 years ago. If not for the pseudo-capitalism permitted, China would already be done. They are living on borrowed time. Central control of the economy of a large population can last only so long before abject failure.
We live in interesting times.
The U.S. has been dabbling in socialism since the 1930s and keeps upping the ante. Failure of the U.S. economy is just around the corner. I don't see any way around it without some pretty painful adjustments.
The Chinese got burned by Venezuela offering collateral that was still in the ground that would cost the Chinese more than they were owed to retrieve. They're admitting to $10 billion but it's probably several times that. The Venezuelans have experienced their own severe infrastructure collapse due to corruption and poor maintenance and will probably have to rebuild their hydro system before they can rebuild their petroleum extraction. It'll take a while.
Because I’m totally paranoid now, I’d say they are emptying Cuba so the elites can make their dream drug,gambling,sexplotation island,and sadly many so called Chirtian conservatives will join right in.
They just don’t have the right people running it.
Let’s send odumbo, fat boy michael moore, heels up, clyburn and all the super smart people in this country to cuba to help them.
I am sure the democrats will bail out the communists in Cuba like they did with the Iranian dictators with billions of dollars. People in both countries will still be imprisoned.
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