• roguetrick@kbin.social
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    I don’t really understand why someone would want to emigrate from Cuba to Russia in the first place, and certainly not die in a war for the privilege.

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      People are leaving Cuba for Haiti (not many, but some), others for Surinam, Nicaragua and Guyana. The only point is to get out, it almost doesn’t matter the destination

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        It’s almost not the embargo. It’s the Cuban government behavior. They’re just criminals who manage a state-monopolistic capitalist country.

        It has never been real socialism, but now it’s very far from it, with the state only investing (wasting) money for building big hotels where no one go (occupation around 20% in high season across the island) and leaving population in hanger and without any basic public service.

        Meanwhile the new little (till 250 employees) private companies import anything from anywhere through corruption, reselling goods at crazy prices that only rich cubans can achieve. No embargo does not exist for them. While society gap is everyday higher.

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            Can’t say embargo doesn’t play a role, but it’s more a cover for bad management.

            There’s no embargo with Europe, and plenty of companies may don’t give a shit about exporting to US, while Cuba could have been a big market. But this didn’t happen. Why?

            Simply because the state has no money, and waste the ones it has.

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      Russia has a lot of grain it can’t sell, NK has a famine and a lot of (probably rusty) soviet shells. It’s a match made in a goulag.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In a statement, the Cuban foreign ministry said that the authorities were working to “neutralise and dismantle” the network, which it said was operating within the Caribbean island nation and in Russia.

    Andrey Gurulev, a lawmaker and retired military officer, said on Monday that the defence ministry was aiming to recruit another 140,000 Russian soldiers by the end of the year.

    Meanwhile, the Kremlin on Tuesday declined to comment on reports that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, planned to travel to Russia this month to meet Vladimir Putin and discuss supplying Moscow with weapons for Ukraine.

    While Peskov did not comment on the reported meeting with Kim, the Kremlin did say Putin was planning to travel to Vladivostok next week to take part in the annual Eastern Economic Forum.

    But we also have information that they’re seeking other types of munitions to assist their war in Ukraine,” the White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said last week.

    Russia’s eagerness to engage with North Korea also suggests Moscow is running low on stocks of some advanced weapons, as the war in Ukraine enters its 559th day.


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      Russia looking to get advanced weapons from North Korea? Yeah, this war sure is going great for them.

      Slava Ukrainia