• @Death_EquityEnglish
    38•1 month ago

    We should have called them up after the first time and asked how we can help, but noo.

      • @Death_EquityEnglish
        14•1 month ago

        That definitely can’t be why they don’t have the things they need.

        • @mlgEnglish
          5•1 month ago

          I believe they rely on oil from Venezuela.

          Which if iirc got the same treatment as Iran for not falling in line lol.

          So I guess you could technically say it was indirect sanctions.

          • @linearchaosEnglish
            6•1 month ago

            I’m not saying we don’t have a hand in that but Venezuela is having their own governmentak crisis ATM.

    • @InverseParallaxEnglish
      8•1 month ago

      I’m sure we would have, if we didn’t have an election going and the Cubans in Florida weren’t actually drooling watching the misery like pornhub.

    • @RookwoodEnglish
      33•1 month ago

      Solar is very expensive upfront cost and requires upgraded infrastructure. Cuba is poor and their infrastructure is old as fuck.

      • @DMCMNFIBFFFEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        The beauty of solar is one doesn’t always need infrastructure: little more than a few panels, some batteries, and an inverter.

    • @linearchaosEnglish
      7•1 month ago

      Cuba gets a hell of a lot of hurricanes. They probably have a hard time keeping a solar farm nailed down. Likely they have some of the same problems if they tried to do a lot of wind. Wave or tidal might not be a miserable choice, But that stuff’s pretty expensive, and they’re still going to have a lot of extreme weather to deal with.

      It probably wouldn’t hurt them to have a small nuclear reactor. It would have to be designed very carefully and have a lot of failsafes and redundancies as using diesel for emergency coolant backup is probably not a viable solution for them.

      • @DMCMNFIBFFFEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        If some roofs can withstand hurricanes, so can some solar panels. Presumably some wind turbines can withstand hurricane-force winds.

  • @delgatoEnglish
    16•1 month ago

    This is so profoundly sad for a country that once had so much. My Cuban ex-pat family decry the communist government role here but I can never forgive the US for their inhumanity in tacitly letting this disaster unfold and others in the Caribbean, but what else is new.