Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But this crisis may also be accelerating a China-backed clean energy revolution that’s been quietly unfolding in the Caribbean nation.
  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipEnglish
    5 months

    I absolutely love that the tyrannical bullying by the US is going to result in a globally-visible solar win.

    That being said, now I worry that this administration will simply bomb them from existence to keep it from happening.

    • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 months

      It’s like they’re trying to crush a bar of soap that just keeps slipping away.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    5 months

    I hope Canada is helping too. We Canadians have vacationed lots and lots over there in past years.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 months

    At what point will the USA admit their embargo was and is a huge fuck-up and an embarrassment? It’s become a symbol of how full of crap we are. Has it been fifty years of this?

    p.s. I looked it up because I’m dumb, it’s been SIXTY-SIX YEARS. It’s even older than me.

    All the USA had to do for a fantastic ally by now is stop being an asshole. We could at least return the illegally seized Guantanamo Bay, which is kept just to insult them, really.