It’s war, aimed at causing widespread suffering among civilians. We should be standing up against it. All indications so far are that we won’t do anything.
100% agree. Cuba deserves aid, and we should be investigating policy and alternatives that we can use to circumvent the resource war on Cuba to help them.
you going to war with the USA with your keyboard?
You mean by contacting my elected representative to express my views about the situation and the policy positions I would like her to take wrt this issue? Yes.
What they’re suggesting would be a lot easier and cheaper if we still had a nationalized oil industry.
Doesn’t even have to be fully nationalized, even owning just one national oil company like Petro-Canada was so that profits stay for Canadians and we have freedom to choose to do something like this.
Canada should send a whole shitload of fuel down to Cuba. Haven’t we been enjoying relatively cheap vacations for decades from this country? It’s time to give back.
Pretty sure Cuba profited from CDN tourism.
Cuba as a country, sure. Individual people, not as much as they should.
thousands of jobs.
Of lower skill job yes, many other more productive way of creating jobs.
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… if Canada were to team up with China in a humanitarian effort …
I would agree Canada to send oil to Cuba, but Canada doesn’t need China for this. And China’s own support for Cuba doesn’t reflect ‘humanitarian effort’ but rather an attempt to gain influence in the region. Very much as the US administration, China has no interest in humanitarian assistance, they seek leverage over others to exploit them for their own goals.
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Cuba already has 25 solar farms completed in 2025. you can’t run a 1950s Chevy or a jet on solar power.
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Why don’t we start with Afghanistan? The humanitarian situation there has been negatively effected by trade being cut off. That’s the only consideration, right? /s
The sad thing is, parts of Lemmy might not dislike the Taliban, either.
If you don’t understand why we shouldn’t let Trump and his posse bully anyone they like in the western hemisphere, you’re more like CanadaMinus
Sure, let’s be realistic and provoke an insane Fascist with a $1T military at his disposal.
What’s he going to do, impose tarrifs?
Bomb the capital? Kidnap our leaders? Bomb boats randomly? He would never do that to another country, right?
Molon labe.
