Someone on :reddit-logo: said today that the US lost their pissing match with China, so now they have to pick on a weaker kid. Honestly makes perfect sense.
Not sure, the video I saw on youtube, it looked like they had modern PCs. Consoles are expensive because they're imported and whatnot though.
When I was there a number of years ago, there were a lot of modern (or relatively modern, think random dell and gateway type boxes from like, the early to mid 2000s. Lots of pentium 3/4 era stuff, and I was there in the summer of 08, a few months before the first gen Core i3, i5, and i7 came along) computers, and I never saw any old classic computers. Mostly the classic cars were there before the embargo really happened, and the home computer era that gave us Atari or Commodore computers was during the Reagan era, the height of the embargo and hostility era.
Thanks for the link.
Kinda unrelated, but I live in a big city in Brazil, and to me it's crazy to see people using their laptops and phones in the middle of a public square at night.
Ok real talk, what happens if the US decides to invade Cuba tomorrow? They're been agitating for weeks to get the population on board, and the media has thus far been all too happy to help wag the dog. The sanctions have really started to hurt the island in earnest over the past year - otherwise the anti-government protests wouldn't have happened - and the announced new sanctions will only serve to turn the screw further. The realpolitik version is to just continue to wait it out until the situation gets dire.
But there's enough bloodthirsty hawks, and Biden would need some win to distract from the fact that he's doing fuck-all leading into midterms, that there's a non-zero chance that the US looks to more direct regime change. It definitely feels more and more like a possibility recently, and not through landing out of shape gusanos on a beach this time. What happens? How does that look? There's no USSR to offset a threat of invasion, and I can't see anybody else in the global community going to bat for Cuba beyond some furrowed brows if Biden decides he needs to reinvigorate the American hegemony.
In terms of foreign policy, right now I think Trump and Biden are a push.
That and moving the embassy to Jerusalem. Biden and Trump's foreign policy have the same motivations (increasing U.S. and capitalist hegemony) but Trump is also batshit insane and didn't have to try and appease SocDems, meaning that he could pretty much get away with anything. Having a cult helps too.
I stan China but I would not expect them to do anything if the US invades Cuba.
If China directly intervened that could very easily escalate to world war 3 and the use of nuclear weapons.
The best that China can do is to discreetly provide Cuba with material support and supplies. I hope they're quietly helping the Cubans stock up on guns and ammo.
what happens if the US decides to invade Cuba tomorrow?
years of guerrilla warfare. but when has a jungle insurgency ever been a problem for the US military? :uncle-ho-2:
I just want to point out that there are Kennedy tapes saying that they're willing to bomb Cuba in the same way they bombed Indochina, which can be significantly worse since Cuba is literally a stone's throw away from all of America's major military installations and supply hubs.
There might not be a Cuban people if the Feds get to unleash the 50 years of pent-up hate on them.
very true, short distance would make it vastly easier to maintain supply lines
My own, completely uneducated, guess is that a US invasion would result in a US puppet government being installed in a green zone in Havana while the legitimate government wages a prolonged guerilla war from the jungle.
The Cuban people will suffer immensely, gusanos will come back and be awarded their grandparents' old properties and Cuba will be remade in the image of Haiti. Healthcare will be privatised, neighbourhoods will be gentrified and the people displaced.
Eventually the US will become sick and tired of the endless war and leave, opening the possibility of a return to power for the legitimate government.
But there’s enough bloodthirsty hawks, and Biden would need some win to distract from the fact that he’s doing fuck-all leading into midterms
I don’t see how the invasion of Cuba will help him lmao Republicans will never vote for you, and some Democrats will be put off. This is a galaxy brain move if he think this will help him rather than simply making MJ legal or eliminating student debt. After Afghanistan and Iraq, I’m almost positive the amount of people who are tired of war is 60-40 in this counry, but who the fuck knows with quarantine frying the few brain cells Americans had left.
Well exactly, I'm not suggesting it would be a good move. But imagine this - Dems get their well-deserved lashing in the midterms, Biden hasnt passed any meaningful legislation and now can't with Repubs controlling the legislature. With 2024 creeping up, some ghouls could make the calculation that an invasion "shows leadership", would unite the country in bipartisan bloodlust, and potentially allow them to win Florida by playing to the gusanos. Biden hasn't shown any interest in constructive legislation so far, and with nearly 3 additional years between now and then to manufacture consent, I could see it happening. Iraq wasn't popular at the time of invasion, either.
I'll admit that this headline made my heart skip a beat thinking about the idea that the US might actually do it.
However, I feel like Bidens liberal instincts to not actually do anything will win out. It's easy to have the CIA churn up some protests and bluster "commies bad" on the news. But actual boots on the ground action? I don't see it. Especially in Cuba where it will turn into a slog of guerrilla warfare because no Cubans want the US there.
It wouldn't look like an invasion. They'd pay a columbian PMC to pose as the "free cuban army" or whatever while bombing the shit out of the country.
Cool, just admitting private big tech is an arm of the government.
"I’ve sometimes said that we have reached ‘military invulnerability’, that that empire [the US] can’t pay the price in lives - unimaginable, perhaps higher than in Vietnam - if they try to occupy us. And besides, the American people aren’t ready to give their rulers leave to sacrifice tens of thousands of lives for some imperial adventure."
-Castro
Hope Papa Fidel is right
He didn't anticipate drone warfare and the apathy it brought with it :doomjak:
I hope China has the balls to threaten expelling US production and stopping exports to the US over the Cuba issue. Americans couldn’t take two weeks of no haircuts without threatening a coup d‘etat. Imagine the US without goods from China.
I also hope for this but I worry that China's no intervention policy would prevent it. The next best thing is the UN but they're toothless.
:corn-man-khrush: should've left the motherfucking nukes :nuke:
DeSantis is gonna run on war with Cuba and will win. America "needs" war and Americans are getting mentally exhausted of the war at home.
Exhausted of the war at home
Bruh, muricans have never really tasted their poison, don't call whatever happened/is happening there a "war"
Yeah the civil war was a proper war but that was a shitton of years ago.
even so, the civil war can't compare to the horrors of continental war that Europe, Asia, and Africa have experienced
that might actually be the better option as he'd probably fuck it up
You mean
NaziWest Germany was in favor of the war? so communist dudes from there were doing bombs and shit?
The Democrats love bending over for chuds though. I don't think that's likely.
