Economic warfare is worse than boots-on-the-ground as it directly targets the civilian population. Civilians aren't collateral damage, they are the target, while the attacker suffers zero casualties.
Modern day siege. Imperialism is some sick shit.
Yeah, it shows why it is no longer a luxury but a necessity to develop alternative routes that are not controlled by the US.
What they are doing to Cuba is what they can easily do to any country if they don't have access to a different route like the BRICs is developing.
From Cuba's side, they have to strengthen their energy independence through investment in oil drilling and diversify their dependency in machine parts from the West. In others words, they need to achieve energy and food sovereignty. To do this, they will need a lot of help from Russia, China, and Vietnam. From our side, we can also help by visiting Cuba and sending aid.
2 billion people was murdered by Western imperialists for the past 534 years
100%, eat the rich asap fam 💪 the capitalists are completely out of control, justice died decades ago. The only option is organised militant resistance. Then seize their assets and jail them. Luigi knew (allegedly)
I wonder how much of this will draw Cuba into a more green approach. Not out of any moral necessity, but purely out of actual necessity. Oil is hard to ship; but if any green technology from China or even their own indigenous designs can make it then I suspect they'll be alright.
China cannot ship in solar panels to Cuba fast enough.
Cuba is already pursuing a number of green alternatives for powering civilian infrastructure, however jet fuel is one of those irreplaceable few fossil fuels that the nation is struggling to secure reserves of. If I remember correctly, Cuba considered domestic refining of jet fuel but the process was prohibitively expensive without an economy of scale and the planners couldn't justify the expenditure.
It wont let me post my edited photo of Kirov Airships with the Cuban flag dangling over them.
Yeah, that's a tough one. I do wonder what the solution to that is.
The immediate solution? Probably pay Russia to send some tankers with warship protection. The long-term solution is to work with Russia to build out a massive domestic oil industry.
Alternatively, if China provides enough assistance, they could use green electricity to turn CO2 and water directly into jet fuel, like this company: https://prometheusfuels.com/
The main issue with the renewable jet fuel idea is that the design inherently requires CO2 derived from ethanol production as Cuba doesn't have nearly enough heavy industry to facilitate relying solely on direct capture. That reliance on ethanol would make Cuba even more reliant on the US as the nation already imports a substantial amount of corn from Argentina, Brazil, and the US already for animal feed and flour refining.
It's actually much cooler than that. The end goal of that tech is to get all the needed CO2 directly from air via DAC (direct air capture).
When we burn gasoline, we release CO2 and water. The DAC and fuel plant can capture the CO2 and water, use chemistry to reverse the combustion, and output gasoline. I work in this field as my day job.
The main issue with this is that it's still early stages.
That’s so cool! Hopefully that works out!
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Might they have to go back to banning domestic electronics because of this shite?
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