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.
After Trump is gone they may admit it.
Dunno why people don’t realize that Trump never admits he’s wrong about anything. He’s an extreme narcissist who throws tantrums like an overgrown toddler. His ego is inflated to such an extreme degree that any hint of any kind of fault on his part drives him into rage spirals from the cognitive dissonance.
Insert “good” meme
Seems like China recognized a pattern about nations that invest heavily in the poorer parts of the world.
The evil commies win again. Thanks Obama, you’re still ruining America years later.
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.
It’s like they’re trying to crush a bar of soap that just keeps slipping away.
“The more you tighten your grip, the more [countries] will slip through your fingers.”
I always recognize this Leia quote.
So that “drill baby drill” didn’t just backfire, it backfired spectacularly yo the point where I’m thinking that we still might have a chance to stop climate change. Thanks Cheetos!
I hate to tell you, but building solar isn’t going to do it. We need to basically defy thermodynamics in order to decarbonize the oceans and atmosphere simply to SURVIVE climate change. We are not stopping it. It’s already at heat levels that were, at one point, predicted to arrive in the later half of this century.
Cuba was already on track to build solar farms back in 2023, with planned completion by 2025.
Putin & Trump will be sited as being responsible for the push, by the World, for more solar and electric energies. These oil dinosaurs are forcing people to choose green alternatives just to exist. Which is exactly what they both never wanted. hahahahaha
Exactly, Europe was about to declare gas energy plants as “clean energy” but only thanks to Putin they were able to 180 before ratification
God I’d love to escape reliance on shitty power grids that usually end up torturing its citizens. Maybe once Orange Clown bites the dust we can FINALLY get some proper support for renewable energy like Solar Power.
I am hopeful that after the orange piece of shit eventually goes tits up, I’m really hoping that there will be a hard correction in the other direction.
There will only be a hard correction if we get politicians who are working for the US, and not to make themselves richer. We need to let them know what we expect from them.
Solar is already pretty popular in a lot of places, we’re going to have to start building out grid-scale storage and increased transmission capability between the different countries of the EU now if we want to be truly independent of fossil fuels without spending a quadrillion euros on nuclear plants everywhere.
I live far enough north that in the summer we peak at 18 glorious hours of daylight. Electricity prices go negative at times, you have to stop selling to the grid or you’ll lose money. But if you’ve got 18 hours of summer daylight, that means you have 18 hours of pitch black in the winter. The sun rises so low over the horizon that on the few days that it isn’t overcast, solar panels barely produce anything. Solar doesn’t produce anything for about 2-3 months. The difference as measured by a company doing home solar installations, is about 30x between the best and worst month. That’s a company that wants to sell you solar, so they’re not likely to overstate the reduction of efficiency in the winter.
We’re then dependent on our fossil plants (somewhat unreliable), wind (somewhat unpredictable) and Finnish nuclear plants - but those power us through the underwater ESTLINK cables and those don’t have enough bandwidth for heavy consumption periods, nor can the Finns sell everything they generate to us… And worst of all, some of that sweet nuclear power gets passed on to Latvia and Lithuania too. Oh and this is winter, where a lot of people need to run our heat pumps full blast at significantly reduced efficiency over spring/autumn time.
But at the same time, southern Europe isn’t affected as much by the lower solar angles and shorter days. There’s a reduction in generation for sure, but not comparable to northern Europe. If that electricity made its way here, we wouldn’t have to run our fossil plants as much in the winter. With enough storage, perhaps it could even be enough to last through cold winter nights as well.
Their alternative is literally to bankrupt their countries, because those stupid fucking idiots put too many eggs in one basket.
Without oil/gas export, they can wave goodbye to their economies as they are today.
meanwhile leaving their own countries lagging behind. “America First” lol.
*cited*
Putin made sure Western countries currently don’t want to use Russian fossil products. Ukraine is making sure that they can never be used again.
Truly champions of the environment and the common people. lol
Poor US always on the wrong side recently, and with such good intentions too.
Bwahaha… Good intentions, that’s rich
No, you’re thinking of the people keeping us in this mess.
So they went full solarpunk?
Cuba in Ten Years
not the first time for this kind of thing. they have had a lot of things like organic farming to.
Big hotels
Amazing what a country can do when its continued existence depend on residents doing it.
This is gonna be the way. PR too, America’s second-least-favourite protectorate after Samoa (you forgot it existed, didn’t ya?). PR can shore up a bunch with solar power – and whatever one does for things like storm damage mitigation, the other can also.
And let’s do haiti next, although that’ll need to be a whole new secure endeavour out of like an embassy basement or something that can’t be stolen or blown up.
Anyway I can donate to help them out or does that violate stupid US sanctions?
No, almost certainly not. We’re stupidly enforcing a sanction that was created before most of us were born.
China is helping. They’re securing a future customer and buying the goodwill of a country for cheap.
Probably violates sanctions. With your DHS being super racist and paranoid, best not upset them and get sent to the thunder dome.
based. plus chinese saudi arms lfg nwo nwo nwo
