Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 14, 2024, 01:57 PMSanctions are violence.  Being out of sight and out of mind does not change reality.  If sanctions were lifted Cuba would be fine.

And someone begins shipping them oil again on the cheap. And then they'd be...Central/South American "fine". And we have a convicted criminal becoming President in a month or so because we all know how that turns out!

Puerto Rico rejoining Cuba as the canaries in the coal mine of power outage in the western hemisphere.  I'll bet the countries along the old Soviet Union border with the west probably have similar percentages in terms of hours of grid power available.

We're definitely seeing the beginning of systemic blackouts and de facto rationing of energy as the poorer, marginal countries on the periphery of industrial civilization are triaged off the grid for political or economic reasons, or have the misfortune of being in the way of a climate or geologic disaster.  Include also locations losing power courtesy of ongoing missile strikes and war related terrorism.

Of course as these places lose access to power, it's GOOD NEWZ for the places still wired up, since it will make their energy cheaper from demand destruction.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/us/puerto-rico-power-outage/index.html

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The barbaric and lethal executive order signed on January 29, 2026, is economic warfare.  Trump deliberately engineers starvation and collapse.  I am so glad I never voted for this cretin.  If I had ever voted for him I think I would have to get off my ass and atone for my mistake in some way.

So it is good I never made that mistake.  I'll leave it for others to do the atoning.

 



Cuba has been without oil since January 9, following Mexico's last delivery.  After Nicolás Maduro was apprehended in an operation sanctioned by Trump on January 3rd.

 

Soon to be "Summer in Vegas" & "Summer in LA" as well.

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