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TexasTowelie

(117,529 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2024, 09:58 PM Dec 15

Cuba Has Collapsed - Joe Blogs

In this video I provide an update on the situation in CUBA which is now suffering from Nationwide Blackouts. Cuba is in a state of ECONOMIC COLLAPSE and cannot afford to buy enough fuel to keep the country's lights on. No electricity means that businesses, schools and the healthcare system will not be able to open and that is only going to make the situation worse.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
11:13 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

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Cuba Has Collapsed - Joe Blogs (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 15 OP

Is Russia not able to help them what with Russia applegrove Dec 15 #1

Russia waiting for that influx of cash from the US. Bluethroughu Dec 15 #4

You mean Trump Co. will return the Russian oligarchs money applegrove Dec 15 #6

Way to go Joe Biden! Baitball Blogger Dec 15 #2

That's some good news RainCaster Dec 15 #3

Cuba is not the enemy OrangeJoe Dec 15 #5

Yes. If they had just allowed continued trade between applegrove Dec 15 #7

the cuban oligarchs in exile became power players in florida rampartd Dec 16 #10

Gosh, what a mess the World is in! Aussie105 Dec 16 #8

Another world war with many countries full of nukes... Justice matters. Dec 16 #9

applegrove

(123,606 posts)

1. Is Russia not able to help them what with Russia

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 10:28 PM

Dec 15

forced to cook the books and pretend they are doing well when they have lost $$$ with the crazy war in Ukraine.

Bluethroughu

(5,988 posts)

4. Russia waiting for that influx of cash from the US.

Reply to applegrove (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 11:17 PM

Dec 15

Putin said trump needs to pay up.

Trump and his maniac cabal will take everything and hand it over to Putin.

Putin may help Cuba, but the problems there will be nothing like what we will see here.

applegrove

(123,606 posts)

6. You mean Trump Co. will return the Russian oligarchs money

Reply to Bluethroughu (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 11:29 PM

Dec 15

held in the embargo when there is peace in Ukraine?

Baitball Blogger

(48,423 posts)

2. Way to go Joe Biden!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 10:31 PM

Dec 15

Putting the hammer on Russia was a brilliant move!!!!!!

RainCaster

(11,648 posts)

3. That's some good news

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 11:07 PM

Dec 15

I'll feel better when I see this verified by a non-youtube news organization. But this is another interesting take on Russian finances.

Edit: here's a non-youtube news organization link that supports some of this guys hoopla https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cuba-runs-short-fuel-pump-energy-crisis-festers-2024-12-13/

Another recent article - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/5/cuba-restores-power-grid-but-planned-outages-to-resume-amid-energy-crisis

OrangeJoe

(431 posts)

5. Cuba is not the enemy

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 11:26 PM

Dec 15

For almost 70 years the US has been crapping on Cuba because it was afraid to see what an alternative economic and social system could accomplish. It’s time to stop the sanctions andallow Cuba to rejoin the world.

applegrove

(123,606 posts)

7. Yes. If they had just allowed continued trade between

Reply to OrangeJoe (Reply #5)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 11:32 PM

Dec 15

the US and Cuba the communists there would be long gone.

rampartd

(863 posts)

10. the cuban oligarchs in exile became power players in florida

Reply to OrangeJoe (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 07:33 AM

Dec 16

extending into the rest of the country most evident in 2000.

Aussie105

(6,467 posts)

8. Gosh, what a mess the World is in!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 12:22 AM

Dec 16

First Russia's economy is imploding and trying to destroy Ukraine with it, North Korea is an economic mess, as always, and the Middle East gets much worse day by day.
China wanting to take over Taiwan, the bad news just keeps coming in.

And now Cuba . . .

Just as well the USA is immune from such troubles!
(Or is it? Trump version 2.0 upcoming!)

Some countries might start to think another world war might be a viable alternative!

Justice matters.

(7,585 posts)

9. Another world war with many countries full of nukes...

Reply to Aussie105 (Reply #8)

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 12:39 AM

Dec 16

And who knows which one of them *would* be desparate enough (the oligarchs who rule or the democratic ones) to fire the first shot, which *would* signal the start of a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) catastrophe.

Scientists determined that two hundred nukes would suffice to wipe out life on the surface of this planet for millions of years (and that includes the human race).

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