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I was about to say this. He warned us!

To add on to what you said, a lot of their farm equipment is either Soviet, made like you said, which makes it basically extremely difficult to find replacement parts, or US-made, which also makes it nearly impossible to trade in replacement parts. They often have to leave machines just sitting there or switch to old-school animals.

Oil to run their machines is also extremely difficult to get a hold of because of things like the embargo, since they try to stop other country's ships from trading with them. They were able to make a deal with Venezuela, and Russia to a lesser extent, that helped, but not enough to meet demand, and it's been even more difficult since they've dealt with sanctions and crises of their own. Mexico is now helping, too, in defiance of the US so hopefully that helps, but it's difficult and complicated to trade around the regulations with both the US and Cuba. They also don't have much equipment or foreign expertise to refine received crude oil.

The sanctions also make the country generally poorer, making it difficult to pay for traded food.

Other colonized states that focused on cash crops for hundreds of years generally deal with the same issues: Puerto Rico imports 85% of its food, for example. Jamaica gets 43% of its food imports from the US (imagine if they emmargoed Jamaica with those statistics). Haiti imports 80-90% of its rice and wheat (a staple foods for them). Fiji produces about half the food their population needs. Some of these countries are trying to change it and have ongoing or new agricultural programs, but if you already have the infrastructure and trading partners for your cash crops (like sugar or whatever) from your colonized days, I guess it must be hard to switch over.

They're a small island that had their biggest trading partner collapse. An economic downturn would happen to any small, sanctioned country after that, no matter how they oriented their economy.

And they actually oriented their economy more towards the need of their people than any other country in this hemisphere, when looking at health outcomes, education outcomes, etc. The US is just still angry they didn't allow foreign interests to dominate their politics and economy like so many other Caribbean and Latin countries.

The best way to find out is to just lift the embargo. If communism is so bad, then it should fail after that all by itself, right? I do find it telling that people like me, who think it's the main reason for their poor economic state, and people like you, who think Cuba brought this crisis on itself, both think that the US should remove the embargo on it. Just do it already, US lol. Florida is a lost cause for Democrats anyway.

I'd also recommend !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl. They seem to find some pretty good communities.

Reddit does get super echo chamber-y in some places, though. Check out any thread in /r/worldnews lately and all the comments. They're all of the same opinion. At least on Lemmy I see disagreement. I see as many complaints about tankies on Lemmy as I do tankies themselves, for example. The only one I've seen in this thread has all their comments in the negative.

I agree and have noticed the same things. I don't think Lemmy is big enough to attract the state sponsors yet like Reddit is but it will probably be susceptible to the same issues when it is.

Just use this to find communities.

So like the relays or whatever that Mastadon has but topic and community focused?

Ya that one was on Biden. No idea why he chose that way to remove student loan debt.

Ya, probably more grad paper thesis territory lol. For South Africa, I know the reconciliation meetings had not only South Africans but people from all around the world, so we'd probably need the same thing here. International law and relations experts, experts on deconolization, history, political theory, constitutions from around the world, etc.

Although i know that also kind of caused the problem in the first place, a bunch of foreigners drawing lines on a map to dictate what happens to the natives. Hopefully this time they'd have a bigger say.

So was South Africa and the Native Americans and the racial relations in the US and countless other situations but we still try to inrpove them.

Well I'm sure the families of the hostages aren't super happy about the way the war is being waged, but I wonder about the others. He did get voted in, and a lot more legitimately than Hamas in Gaza which was years before half their population was old enough to vote.

The internet is really something, isn't it?

Right? I know Sam Altman sucks but I don't know if he was fired for more profit or less, or what exactly is going on. I'm not sure how to react to these articles besides surprise and bemusement.

At the time, they were pissed they were kicked out of the land, and I'm sure some old people still are (there are people old enough to be able to look at their family house they were kicked out of).

But now, I'm sure most of them are passed about what's happening now, that they get the bare minimum of calories, that they are always surveilled by drones to the point that they can't sleep from their droning, that their trash piles up as it's controlled by the Israelis, they can't leave their waters or travel to other places, most of their water is poisoned, most of their family was killed by IDF, etc.

I prefer a one state solution VS two state one, but i guess this is better than no state.

Thanks! You seemed very informed about the conflict so yours felt like a good comment to ask that question under, which had been on my mind since I saw it under an old Abby Martin video of her interviews with Israelis. That video looks like it will probably take some time to watch but it gives me a place to start.

It's implied. A ceasefire gives a chance to negotiate for hostages and for peace.

It's hilarious for all the "democracy" the US loves to "export", it actually has a pretty terrible democracy. Wildly popular policies have no way to make their way to the government unless a rich person or corporation also lobbies for it.