A long-running energy crisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.

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      Except Cuba and Venezuela, who will soon be the USA, and ground zero for resisting the MAGA regime

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        What makes you think he won’t proceed to throw the “illegals” out of these new American states?

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          Venezuela has a population of Vietnam around the start of the Vietnam War, is 20% larger than Afghanistan, and largely mountain and jungle. America is incapable of invading and occupying them.

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          He’d have to kill them. The blowback would be harder if he tried to get them out. Every south American country would go to war.

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          hes going to start targeting the same cubans,venezuelans, argentinas that voted him into power the last election.

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    If that doesnt spike up use of renewables what is?

    If you have solar powered homes and solar powered vehicles who needs oil anyways?

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      You need money to buy that and having no oil is basically a death sentence for a somewhat modern economy like that of Cuba. When the Soviet Union collapsed and that limited oil shipments to Cuba, there was a serious food shortage in the country. This was without the US actively stopping oil tankers from reaching the country.

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      Putin is bogged down in his war of conquest; his oil export terminals thrashed and refineries burnt. He doesn’t have the ability to do anything else. See also: Syria and Armenia.