Cuba Faces a Humanitarian Crisis || May 15, 2026

The Cuban military has plenty of money that can be seized for rebuilding: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article311624322.html

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Cuba lies astride a critical location, dominating the Gulf of America, Mississippi River, the Louisiana and Texas oil infrastructure. USA cannot tolerate the threat of a hostile power influencing or controlling the place. 90 miles from Florida. US policymakers have decided to wipe the slate there and in Iran. Twenty years is a short period of time. Nation States and Multinational Corporations have a 300 year plan. Ask an arborist about 20 year plans when planting an Oak tree.

I don’t know it seems there are a large population of wealthy expats that are living just a few hundred miles north that would have a vested interest in rebuilding the country as a protectorate. I’m not saying it will be easy but there is going to be a political structure that is formed quickly. But I agree the rebuilding will take 20 years.

So what is the point Trump? Are we worried big bad Cuba is going to attack us? Cheeto is creating human suffering AGAIN to pervert from Epstein. This is criminal.

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Hi guys, I live outside of the USA so I see your point. However, listen to what Peter has told us: The world order of the globalisation period was simply a discount way for the US to face off against the USSR. That is no longer needed. I have mates in the US (yes I am happy admit to that). They see no point in globalization now. The rest of us need to wake up smell the coffee (or at least smell the last fumes of the diesel as it runs out). We are all waiting see how it plays out. Its looks like getting worse for a while yet.

They want a colony. I don’t like post-colonial rhetoric, but here it applies.

"The harder and more expensive way to do it".......implies that there was ever another way to do this. If so, it would have happened.

What do you think of Professor Jiang predictions.

I get the Cuban leaders want to hang on to power. But isn't this the time to realize they are powerless ( no pun intended) and DEFEATED? Survive today, to fight another day (maybe).

Don’t you catch more flies with honey than vinegar?

Setting aside the emotional reactions and ignoring the moral and ethical issues associated with where things are at maybe what folks should be asking is what options has Cuba got for their future? Can they stay an independent country with a m9re democratic organization? Or do they become some sort of protectorate? Do they become a territory... maybe something like Puerto Rico? I expect the Trump administration will make a mess of things now. And then (hopefully) future administrations develop a feasible plan to benefit everyone. What other option is there at this point? CIA director (Radcliffe) was in Havana just the other day meeting with those folks.

Looks like we're back to our old tricks: topple a government, install a puppet dictator of some kind, assume everything will work itself out while our corporations seize assets for pennies on the dollar

Peter, you offer problems, but do you offer solutions?

So you said they have 10 megawatt installed solar right? Do they have the real estate to scale that up and do battery storage, because I'm sure that's a contract that could be quickly filled...in an emergency build out where permitting is not an issue, you could get 100MW of wind+solar plus BESS (large scale battery storage) done in under 10 months.

Once again, the ready-fire-aim gaggle attempts tactical victory without any kind of cogent strategy.

Given that “we” as subscribers of PZ are interested in the future, and given the comments above, I wonder how many of “US” will vote for Democrats to return Senate control to the Democrats and stop Mr. Trump? I read a lot of discontent from “US” (above) and I question how many of “US” are just complaining and how many are really going to stop the Trump administration? I ask respectfully with no intent to insult anyone. Please reply.

Soooo, Peter ... what is the easier and less expensive way to do it?

If Trump was younger, it would be Las Vegas in Havana ……. Rebuilt with IMF bucks……

Thanks Peter. Just as with Gaza, it’s a horror to be the people responsible for such cruelty. Spreading democracy indeed. That lie has preceded millions of murders across the globe for a long time. This will 100% come around to bit us in the backside.

I wonder if the Cuban project could’ve ever worked… From its inception, it has been under attack by the United States which forced them to be far more militant and reactionary. when we normalize relations with them, they were fairly prosperous by Caribbean standards. Their education was good, they had a lot of doctors per capita. Sadly, this administration is forcing Epstein ideology down Cuba much like they’re doing to the United States… Everyone will be poorer and life expectancy will drop and a few kids will go missing to do. God only knows what.

The pattern seems to be "bull in the china shop" foreign affairs which amounts to breaking countries with massive violence, but then having no plan or means at all to replace the broken dishes. Then on to the next store. Meanwhile, a lot of people are getting very angry at the bull.

They havent got the gas to run a boat motor 90 miles to Florida

So many inhuman comments. A sign of internal demographic collapse.

At some point amongst all Peter’s predictions of failed states he’s going to have the horrifying realisation that the one he lives in is actually going to be the first.

Cuba has been in crisis since 1957. The Revolution may have ousted the corrupt Batista regime, but it did nothing to improve the lives of its people. Cuba lost most of its best resource in the sixties, the professional middle class, and became North Korea-light. Unfortunately, it has once again been left to a corrupt and totally incompetent administration to deal with another can that has been kicked down the road for decades. There will be much pain and suffering, which is a requirement for a Trumpian solution.

Hey, but look how many more baseball players were gonna have available! And maybe they’ll start selling cigars cheaper! Oh, and all those were investments in Bechtel, Halliburton, Raytheon look how they’re gonna do when we start rebuilding things! The elite billionaires will get even richer! What a bargain!

Couldn’t this backfire and push them closer to Russia and China

It’s the only low risk way to do this. Bleed them out come in and rebuild society in our image. We have a very good blue print for this type of thing BUT BUT BUT Trump is a fucking retard sooooooo will he use that blueprint or fuck everything up like he’s known for.

More brilliance from the Trump administration. I've been watching this mess unfold for some time, glad you brought it up.

But, but, but they achieved fairness and equality for all; a real marxist Utopia that the radical marxists in the States want; Fair and equal misery for all.

The most effective policy with Cuba right now would be to raise the embargo

Cuba could be a paradise It was before, when compared to what it become today.

You spelled American-Made Crisis wrong. What your country is doing to the rest of the world is criminal and cannot be forgotten forever. It may take time, but what goes around comes around. The "aMeRiCaN cEnTurY" can't last forever. Soon enough..... the consequences.