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.
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.
you going to war with the USA with your keyboard?
You mean by contacting my elected representative to express my views about the situation and the policy positions I would like her to take wrt this issue? Yes.
What they’re suggesting would be a lot easier and cheaper if we still had a nationalized oil industry.
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.
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.
Why stop at oil, why not forestry, mining, manufacturing, tech, real estate?
Alberta cant be the only one with their resources being redirected, wouldnt a full socialist utopia in every province be a fairer path?
Excellent point! We should do this to all our major industries
Well its only fair, it makes no sense to specifically target Albertas industries. Its almost like we do have it out for them at that point, and maybe they should separate.
Go troll on facebook
I would support this humanitarian effort.
USA would declare it an act of war.
The best advice is don’t stand in front of a speeding train even though the bridge is out ahead.
Pure fearmongering
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.
thousands of jobs.
Of lower skill job yes, many other more productive way of creating jobs.
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… 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.
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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
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Look at how many countries the west destroyed in the last few decades. They will continue to destroy everything where China can do business. Chinese selfishness could hurt them in the long term
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What China wants to do in the rest of the world is to raise the world standard of living in order to produce a larger market for Chinese exports
and what the west is doing is to fuel civil wars all over the countries China want to do business with . Rebuilding what the west destroyed takes decades to fix .
China is selfish because they keep ignoring how serious is the destruction of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and the attempt to destroy Iran . The policy of non interference may seems smart in short term but not in long term. China should be clear with American do not mess with our business
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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.
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The stage is set for Cuba to import solar panels and EVs from China as never before.
Cuba already has 25 solar farms completed in 2025. you can’t run a 1950s Chevy or a jet on solar power.
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Why don’t we start with Afghanistan? The humanitarian situation there has been negatively effected by trade being cut off. That’s the only consideration, right? /s
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?
Bomb the capital? Kidnap our leaders? Bomb boats randomly? He would never do that to another country, right?
Molon labe.
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.
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.
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Since history is full of white washing I stopped caring about history
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I mean, if you ignore history, the West hasn’t done anything bad ever.
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!
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Wow, it’s amazing a few bombing survivors could completely change a province of 25 million. That makes this genocide okay. /s
Mind you, Western news tells the story slightly differently
Also a family member of mine who was there several times.
Edit: Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point. You were just arguing against a “everyone against the West is good” guy.
