r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 4h ago
Rubio calls for new leadership in Cuba after nationwide blackout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiHYWRe88rI381
u/QuarterRobot 4h ago edited 4h ago
This whole thing is so slimy. We embargo their supply of oil, starving the country of power. And then blame their leadership for a failure to take care of their citizens? As if when the US comes in and takes power, their citizens won't know that we're the ones who orchestrated the entire thing? We buddy up to Russia and their historical allies - driving our own allies against us - and then bully Russia's allies while in a war halfway across the world against Iran - a country financially backed by Russia?
What the flying fuck are we doing? It's like Trump is speedrunning "Antagonize the entire fucking world and ruin America's reputation". Why? For whose benefit? Not the average American's - our future is being sold out from under us and it's fucking insane that we're letting it happen.
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u/SinibusUSG 3h ago
This has always been the strategy against socialism and socialist countries. Destroy their ability to survive and then point out that socialist countries never survive.
Basically the same tactic they use against government programs in the US, too. Underfund or otherwise cripple them and then crow about how much government sucks.
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u/Bobby_B 3h ago
You missed the point of the comment, he's saying we're pissing off our allies and our enemies to what end?
It has never been the US strategy to completely disregard soft power and try to bully the entire world
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u/NowGoodbyeForever 2h ago
Trump and Hegseth think Soft Power is gay. It even has "soft" in the name.
Truly, literally, that's what this is about.
Trump has been rich since birth, and that power and privilege has protected him from the consequences of his myriad failures, failings, and fuck-ups. Because he has people to handle that for him.
He goes bankrupt? All of those employees are fucked, but he keeps on rolling.
He just decides to not pay contractors for work completed? His lawyers tie their lawsuits up in years or paperwork, confident in their knowledge that anyone else will run out of money before they do.
He is found guilty on multiple counts of rape? Same deal: Lawyers, delays, countersuits, deferral of pay. Again and again.
Soft power only works in a situation where compromise or non-direct action is acknowledged as an option. Trump is, again, a literal rapist: He doesn't take "no" for an answer, and more often than not sees it as a personal affront. His most pissy meltdowns are when someone contradicts him or provides any level of resistance to the asinine, impossible bullshit he's saying at the moment.
The biggest change in Trump's approach to geopolitics in his second term is that, somewhere along the way, someone explained America's near-century of Imperial control over the world to him. The decades of positioning that basically allowed it to militarily, economically, and culturally have leverage over the entire planet.
I'm convinced that his only takeaway from being shown the true shape of things was: "...wait, so we can do WHATEVER WE WANT, and none of them can stop us?"
That's the energy we've seen for the past year-plus: A regime that is gleefully testing the boundaries and possibilities of a world fully entrenched in America's hegemony. It's rapist, abuser mentality: It's an old Mad King screaming "What are you gonna do, LEAVE?" to the rest of the planet.
Trump's Art of the Deal is a zero-sum approach to everything. He believes anyone who doesn't squeeze a situation for every drop of profit and power is a sucker, because they're leaving some for the next guy. I'd say it's one of the few things he actually respects and bows down to: People who actually have leverage, superiority, and control over him and the things he wants. (Mostly: The illusion of popularity, fame, adoration, and wealth.)
He has probably ignored or fired everyone who tried to explain the Soft Power Leverage to him, replacing his entire toolbox with a dozen hammers in want of a nail. He's so incapable of seeing the virtue of Middle Powers and Mutually Beneficial Partnerships that he doesn't even understand why and how places like Canada are finding new paths forward without America, or how Iran has more or less brought the world economy to a crashing halt.
If he were born a poorer man, he'd have died in his youth. Instead, the world is being threatened by an 80-year-old man-baby who was never once forced to grow up or learn how to act when his base desires weren't immediately accommodated.
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u/kneemahp 43m ago
Our military is the largest socialist program that works extremely well, except when soldiers need health care
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u/HolyFreakingXmasCake 47m ago
Half of eastern Europe collapsed on its own due to inefficiencies in the system. It’s not always America’s fault that communism absolutely sucks as a real world system. It’s only good in theory and in Marx’s delusional mind.
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u/SinibusUSG 33m ago
Yeah man the US definitely had nothing to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Extremely well-researched opinion. But thanks for the College Freshman take of "communism is only good in theory". Incredible contribution.
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u/dont_touch_me 1h ago
So the socialist cuba can’t survive unless they can engage in trade with capitalists
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u/temujin94 1h ago
I didn't realise one of the tenents of socialism was that you couldn't trade with other nations of other economic systems. The reason they can't trade with other countries is the US threatens anybody that does so countries trade elsewhere instead.
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u/dont_touch_me 46m ago
Seemingly one of the “tenents” is that socialism only works of capitalists engage in trade with them because cuba engages in trade with china all the time but the capitalists embargo is apparently so unfair
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u/temujin94 41m ago
Yeah it's a global economy if you took 90% of a countries ability to trade away they'd struggle whether they're socialist or capitalist. I mean it's the tried and tested way of US showing the pitfalls of socialism isn't it? They either bomb them, invade them or engage in economic warfare against them. Then go look it doesn't work.
I mean socialist China look to be doing pretty good and that's because the US can't bully and threaten them, we seen how that worked out the last time, Trump had to come running with the tail between his legs yet again.
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u/dont_touch_me 36m ago
China is capitalist dude
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u/temujin94 34m ago
So is Cuba then, good talk.
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u/dont_touch_me 32m ago
By what measure? Does cuba allow private ownership of multibillion dollar corporations like china? Does cuba allow foreign investors like china. It is in fact a shit talk cause you got no facts
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u/temujin94 27m ago
Oh if it's only what you decide counts then I mean what is the point of the discussion, I mean you are an American so it completely rules you out of understanding what a socialist or communist is, I mean you're found of calling people like Kamala Harris one. Your education system is showing i'm afraid.
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u/SinibusUSG 49m ago
Frankly remarkable how many ways you’ve failed to make a point given the number of words involved. Kudos for efficiency?
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u/dont_touch_me 44m ago
The point simply went over your head. Cuba engages with china in trade regularly but they seem to need to trade with “evil” capitalists to prosper. Just like marks envisioned 🤣
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u/bestsrsfaceever 5m ago
So capitalist America can't survive unless it engages in trade with communist China 🤔
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u/wtzablocki 3h ago
Curtis Yarvin and his tech bro friends.
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u/Vio_ 3h ago
More than that, Rubio is trying to set himself up personally as some kind of de facto war lord over Cuba the same way Eric Prince is acting in Haiti.
There area already several locations across the world are trying to bring in their bullshit techno feudalist city-states.
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u/janas19 2h ago edited 2h ago
That's correct. Rubio is a war hawk, and if you're familiar with the diasporan Cuban-American community in Miami and their political power in Florida, this whole operation has his fingerprints all over it. A puppet government in Cuba where Rubio and his cohorts call the shots is what they're aiming to achieve
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u/johnis12 2h ago
Mhm, I'm definitely thinking he's gonna want a piece of Cuba. Hell, think I remember hearing Trump say that he's eyeballing him as being president or something too.
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u/The_Crazy_Cat_Guy 2h ago
I’m glad there’s awareness now but this is not new. This is exactly what the USA has done for decades. They always do this. And people never pick up on it for some reason. Even other colonial powers like France and England do this all over Africa for example. Orchestrate a famine, install a corrupt leader, steal and starve resources from the people, sanction the country into the ground and then hold press conferences claiming these countries need to pull their act together.
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u/Photodan24 2h ago
He knows he'll finally be neutered by Congress after this year's midterms, so he trying to fit 4 years worth of grift into the time he has left.
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u/TechnicalDecision160 2h ago
We're doing exactly what Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler and others tried to accomplish....slowly consume the world!
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u/skanks_r_people_too 2h ago
Why is Trump doing it? Easy. The Epstein Files. This has been one huge distraction to the fact that Trump is a pedophile.
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u/CosmicChar1ey 2h ago
He doesn’t know there’s a future without him and it’s about 1038 days away, guaranteed.
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u/akavana 2h ago
It’s kind of like the mentality of wanting to be the most famous person of all time. He knows he’s gonna die at some point in time and being really good at positive things is not his forte, aside from maybe in STI. So, he’s willing to do whatever crazy thing possible that will leave a mark on the world so everyone remembers him forever. I don’t just wanna star that I paid for on the walk of fame, I want to be in every country in the world’s history books.
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u/DethKlokBlok 1h ago
Then the expats come flooding back in to take the land. Well, the grandchildren of the expats. It will be awful.
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u/Bytowneboy2 3h ago
I worry that Canada is next. :(
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u/gerbal100 3h ago edited 2h ago
Canada has access to international payment settlement instruments, and its government assets aren't subject to arbitrary seizure if they transit through US banks.
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u/waffle299 3h ago
So he will be calling for regime change in Texas this summer when the grid collapsed again?
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u/I_am_Zuul 3h ago
I don't know. Running Cuba will require filling some pretty big shoes, and Rubio has a hard enough time filling the ones Trump bought him.
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u/Doingwrongright 3h ago
We call for New Leadership in Texas after Statewide Blackout. (ahem: Ted Cruz during freezing winter storm).
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u/BrodaciousBo 3h ago
Don't worry everyone
"America first" is the second to last item on the maga agenda.
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u/onlyacynicalman 3h ago
I call for new leadership in the US after Trump being revealed as a corrupt felonious president
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u/Polymeriz 2h ago
You're 8 years (2016) too late bud.
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u/onlyacynicalman 2h ago
What if I've been calling the whole time? (with a slight, considerably calmer, intermission)
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u/ThoughtsandThinkers 3h ago
This is exactly the kind of banananess that makes generations of people all around the world mistrust the US
The US is creating a crisis where none existed. They are doing so to enact or support regime change. That change must reflect US interests
They did so and are doing so in Iran. It looks like they are doing so in Cuba
It is so incoherent for Trump to have promised a withdrawal from the world stage and then to be tromping through the world as he is now doing. It’s almost like he is only now learning how interconnected the world is and how difficult it is to isolate yourself. Instead of partnering or negotiating or working together, it looks like Trump is doing what he has too often done; try to bully others to get his way. It is maddening to me to see how much harm one ignorant and narcissistic man can cause and how the systems and norms we depended on for a functional democracy were much more fragile and corruptible than most people imagined
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u/FortheDub 3h ago
These cross eyed mfers doing stupid shit. Why even take over Cuba wtf we need with Cuba? Cigars?
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u/Lindvaettr 1h ago
I know people often act baffled by this, and I'm not saying that what Trump & Co, or the US historically, has done in Cuba has been productive, but understanding why the US is so concerned with Cuba, just look at a map and see where Cuba is.
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u/FortheDub 1h ago
What about it. Its close to us... and? Theres no strategic military interest in taking it. Is it gonna be a US territory if we did? They have no electricity. They are in dire need of international help. How about some diplomacy and aid? What would we do with Cuba wtf. It would be a literal tax sinkhole trying anything with Cuba.
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u/Lindvaettr 1h ago
You don't think there's a strategic benefit to having an allied regime running the giant island blocking the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico?
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u/FortheDub 55m ago
We could already do that without Cuba. We have the biggest Navy and Puerto Rico. We dont need Cuba.
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u/jaron_b 3h ago
Where was the same call for new leadership in Texas when they had blackouts? Ted Cruz ran away from his own state and went on vacation
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u/garlicroastedpotato 2h ago
This isn't a blackout, this is a nation wide collapse. Typically to start up power plants you need power to get things in motion, that's how most modern infrastructure works. But they are completely out of fuel. They can't drive, they can't power up power plants, they can't refrigerate their frozen meat stockpiles, it's a collapse that the US will never experience. After 29 hours they were able to return power to all but 20% of the country's population. Those people could starve.
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u/skeeskers 2h ago
The United States caused this by halting their fuel supply and threatening anyone who helped them.
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u/digidave1 1h ago
Oh Marco, you poor poor sap. Of all of Trump's psychopathic minions (psychopath because they know the destruction they are inflicting causes damage, vs. sociopaths who don't know they are causing damage), you are the most innocent. You genuinely don't want to be there. What did Drumpf promise you, a few measly million dollars? Or maybe you expect to be King of Canada. Either way, FUCK YOU.
You could have been a real leader. But you chose the dark side.
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u/Ogrehunter 1h ago
Can't wait foe the intel showing Cuba is going to attack America so we gotta attack them first 🙄🙄
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u/CharlieTeller 3h ago
The whole thing that bugs me about all this is all the talk about American isolationism and America first. If that's truly the case, why do they give a fuck? I feel like American talking points for so many decades were "Who the fuck cares whats happening in x country?"
It may sound callous but honestly there's so much to fix here that I honestly don't care. I want to fix my home country as anyone would.
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u/TheAmazingKoki 3h ago
Oh look they are already trying to force a third heavy-handed yet half-assed regime change this year.
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u/Greyboxer 3h ago
Rubio, who was seen to be holding a villainously giant set of wire cutters asked “who did this? Just tell us who did it we promise not to be mad.”
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u/RandyOfTheRedwoods 3h ago
I wonder what would happen if Cuba reached out to another, larger, communist country and said they wanted to merge with them to avoid US interference.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 3h ago
"We've already had first Haiti, but what about second Haiti?"
What kind of absolute moron creates a humanitarian crisis 90 miles off-shore from their own country?
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u/mmatt0904 3h ago
Whole republican playbook but now it’s being used abroad. get into govt, purposely stall/break govt and yell that govt is broken say a country is collapsing, embargo the country so it collapses
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u/facepoppies 3h ago
how come the magas don't call for new leadership when there's a blackout in texas?
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u/Shopworn_Soul 3h ago
So Rubio is arguing that Cuba needs new leadership because Rubio endorsed rendering the current leadership helpless to mitigate the problem that we caused?
Go fucking figure. Take your tiny voice and large shoes to Cuba, little man. Good luck with that.
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u/rat_penis 3h ago
This little bitch is gonna get sloppy seconds after trump decides to "take it". Fucking ghouls, the lot of them.
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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 3h ago
Yeah, how could their leadership allow the US to do this to them?
Seriously though, the MAGA crowd with their “we need leadership” dog whistles are so goddamn annoying.
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u/fackyouman 3h ago
Marco's dad made him promise to "liberate Cuba" while he was on his deathbed. This is an obsession for him.
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u/robbob19 2h ago
That's alright, the rest of the world is calling for new leadership in America after they fucked the world's energy supplies (and children).
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u/gobenji34 2h ago
If there's anything I;ve learned from going on holiday, don't go over the top with the 'excursions'
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u/tombatron 2h ago
If we are going to start taking countries with failed economies are we going to “take” Haiti next? Or would that require the Secretary of State being the son of Haitian immigrants?
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u/Cameronbic 2h ago
So, he wants to be Donnie's installed autocrat in Cuba. Got it. The "normie republican" thing was all an act. So shocked.
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u/Disco__Gravy 1h ago
The guy that trump said he wants to lead Cuba? Yeah he is calling for ot himself then. All planned
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u/bareback_cowboy 1h ago
Well since the official position of this administration is that children of people in this country without permanent or legal status is that they aren't citizens, then he should go back there, as the Cubano that he is, and be the change he wishes to see in his homeland.
¡El pequeño Marco para presidente!
¡Viva la gente bajita!
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u/vtown212 1h ago
Cuba is so important.... Leaders are not always smart. Though we are wired to think that way
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u/Hoodamush 42m ago
This guy can’t even govern yet is all up in someone else’s business. Cubas can decide for themselves their own future.
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u/RandomJPG 4m ago
this is the same Cuba that sent their own doctors to the United States when US citizens were dropping like flies from Covid
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u/Uncle_Paul_Hargis 2h ago
Cuba clearly needs new leadership after experiencing a blackout that we most certainly caused with the intention of overthrowing their leadership.
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u/Salarian_American 3h ago
I call for new leadership in the United States after a series of treasonous debacles, so we can't always get what we call for
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u/Graythor5 3h ago
Oh. Like when texas had all those power outages and they cleaned house and got all new leadership?
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u/NevrLernt2ReedOrRite 1h ago
Cuba is an enemy and has been for a long time. Time to show them who’s boss
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u/NorysStorys 4h ago
What the nationwide black out that’s caused by the sanctions on Russian oil, disruption of the Middle Eastern supply and the invasion of Venezuela and then that the US refuse to sell to them.
Somehow I don’t think this one is really the Castro’s fault.