The stage is set for Cuba to import solar panels and EVs from China as never before.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Cuba already has 25 solar farms completed in 2025. you can't run a 1950s Chevy or a jet on solar power.
Canada should send a whole shitload of fuel down to Cuba. Haven't we been enjoying relatively cheap vacations for decades from this country? It's time to give back.
Pretty sure Cuba profited from CDN tourism.
Cuba as a country, sure. Individual people, not as much as they should.
What they're suggesting would be a lot easier and cheaper if we still had a nationalized oil industry.
Doesn't even have to be fully nationalized, even owning just one national oil company like Petro-Canada was so that profits stay for Canadians and we have freedom to choose to do something like this.
But isn't that evil authoritarian communism? /s
It is... Drum roll please... Social democracy!
For young ones and new Canadians: FYI Petro-Canada was founded as a crown corporation and operated as such until 1991.
I would support this humanitarian effort.
USA would declare it an act of war.
An interesting historical note is that Nestle has survived and prospered despite American sanctions against it. Nestle products were widely available in Cuba when I visited - about the only ice cream novelties that were available. That's why you will not see Smarties in an American store.
However, this may soon be a moot discussion, based on what China does next.
"China will support Cuba “in the best way possible” as the island grapples with an energy crisis following tougher measures imposed by US President Donald Trump’s administration, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday."
Apparently, China is very eager to replace the Russian influence in Cuba with a Chinese influence.
It would be ironic, and perhaps even strategic, if Canada were to team up with China in a humanitarian effort to divert oil to Cuba. Canadian oil shipped to Cuba under a Chinese navy escort? Wouldn't that shake up the 'New World Order"!!!!!!!
The Law of Unintended Consequences - the more America tries to push its weight around in Latin American countries, the more he pushes them towards China.
And while these two hegemons battle it out, Canada, as a middle power, skates right down the middle and scores. The opportunities and openings for Canada have never been greater.
... if Canada were to team up with China in a humanitarian effort ...
I would agree Canada to send oil to Cuba, but Canada doesn't need China for this. And China's own support for Cuba doesn't reflect 'humanitarian effort' but rather an attempt to gain influence in the region. Very much as the US administration, China has no interest in humanitarian assistance, they seek leverage over others to exploit them for their own goals.
China can use economical pressure on the usa to allow countries to give aid to Cuba but they are selfish and self centered . Canada who is still selling weapons to the terrorist stste of israel also do it for keeping the fake image of the country wjo always stand for human rights values
This is already absolutely happening. The entire world is gravitating away from the US and towards China. Countries that were very cautious about China are embracing them with open arms.
The world order is not about “good” and “bad”. It is “better” and “worse”. The US is now worse. And I do not think they believe the rest of us have options.
They don’t have the cards.
It's war, aimed at causing widespread suffering among civilians. We should be standing up against it. All indications so far are that we won't do anything.
you going to war with the USA with your keyboard?
100% agree. Cuba deserves aid, and we should be investigating policy and alternatives that we can use to circumvent the resource war on Cuba to help them.
Why don't we start with Afghanistan? The humanitarian situation there has been negatively effected by trade being cut off.
The sad thing is, parts of Lemmy might not dislike the Taliban, either.
Is this honestly how simplistically you see the world? You think that is analogous to what people are saying? Amazing.
I'm actually criticising how simplistic this argument is.
If you don't understand why we shouldn't let Trump and his posse bully anyone they like in the western hemisphere, you're more like CanadaMinus
Sure, let's be realistic and provoke an insane Fascist with a $1T military at his disposal.
What's he going to do, impose tarrifs?
No way western propaganda makes it impossible to support any middle eastern country not already allied with the US.
Who mentioned the Middle East?
If you're going to white knight a country, at least be able to find it on a map.
Bordering the middle east my bad I don't care about colony borders made by racist white people in history.
Afghanistan also shares a border with China. Do you consider that a 'colony borders made by racist white people in history'?
Since history is full of white washing I stopped caring about history
Wow, it actually does have a little panhandle squeaking past Tajikistan, I never noticed that. The fact it bordered the Soviet Union is also a big hint it may not be sunny and Mediterranean.
And, I mean, OP was the only one who brought the category up!
Sure, like assuming Islam is a region isn't racist. At least the people that want to bomb (the fictional city of) Agrabah don't pretend to care about Muslims.
FWIW Iranians don't even love being lumped in with the Arabs. Afghanistan is culturally Persian, and closer to the central Asian steppe homelands and south Asia than to the Middle East.