Putin did the stupid. Said it was going to arm countries or individuals to attack the West leaving the solution to the extreme agenda to end Russia.. Mr. Hodges, I think the US has found its directive in Ukraine.
attempt they should try again Cuba really needs to get out of communism now protest have happened since 2021 people are desperate for the regime to fall already.
Fulgencio Batista remember him. poor foreign relations at the beckon call of USA business who wanted to buy Cuba out from under Cubans. something billionaires are willing to do to our own citizens. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi shah of Iran the same . We are not with our sins.
They're hurting economically and need all the help they can get. Also they're an authoritarian regime and unless that government wants to retire and magically become a democracy then they're going to ally with other regimes. Also this 19:47
Only an orc would celebrate a sneak attack. However, since the last Tsar got killed that is the cowardly war of Russians in war. Modern Russia is a country bereft of honor. Mother Russia is the streetwalker of Europe. It would be nice if she would stop trying to force her dubious wares on the poor Ukrainian guy. No means no.
About those ruSSian ships going to Cuba. Perhaps someone should start a go fund me account for Ukraine to purchase fishing boats and/or seaplane(s) so Ukraine can sit in waiting for the ruSSian ships to enter/leave Cuba into international waters. I imagine the fishing boats/seaplanes acting like the mother ship for a bunch or rubber boats. Once Ukraine gets word the ruSSian ships are approaching international waters, Ukraine launches a bunch of manned rubber boats (to lower radar footprint) with several of those wonderfully effective Ukrainian sea drones in various strategic places to discreetly sit and wait. When the ruSSian ships are in range, the rubber boats launch the swarms of sea drones and...
I'm not sure about that, but observing countries like Cuba and Venezuela, comparing them with evil right dictatorships, it might be so that so called social paradises have a greater chance of survival.
These administrations are usurpers of power, or a terrorist or other similar attack has been used as an excuse for usurping power. It only leads to the victory of the most violent beast of all, or the victory of the demonically intelligent one.
Taking administrative power, and the desire for power, only leads to the victory of the most violent beast of all, or the victory of the demonically intelligent one.
@@Hellofa6ird😂😂😂😂😂... here's the difference, dummy: US is providing weapons to Ukraine and they are using them and can use, any minute, in Russian soil. Who Russia will give weapons to attack the US in US soil? Do you really think a submarine and a handful of boats will level the ground?😂😂😂
You can place the blame for Cuba's mess at the feet of L B Johnson - when he was sent to assess Castro's concerns, he reported that the US should not support him, but continue with Batista. That made Castro to turn to the Soviets for aid.
You can place the blame for Cuba's mess at the feet of L B Johnson - when he was sent to assess Castro's concerns, he reported that the US should not support him, but continue with Batista. That made Castro to turn to the Soviets for aid.
The United States, Russia and their people do not care about the problems of Cuba and Venezuela. It's all about money, power and greed. Both countries do not care about the Cuban and Venezuelan people.And also Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
@@quartermaster1976dude... if they shoot one single missile, Russia will be leveled. They cannot afford two wars at a time. Plus the economic war. And if they strike first, China will NOT support them. The US- China economic bond is far stronger and far more important than the one they may have with Russia.
On the practical side, there's nothing wrong with bringing a ship along that can help other ships should there be engine problem. That being said the Russian navy has had a long history of these tugboats actually being needed.
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The average Cuban has had very little access to imported food for many years. Most Cubans that have a small patch of land, have animals ( pig, goats, chickens) and they grow their own food. The local markets sell produce that is in season and has been grown in Cuba. One week it is onions. Next week it is garlic. The tourist hotels get imported food that the average Cuban never sees.
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul One opinion. Mismanagement. In 1972 Cuba joined the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) and negotiated a new long-term trade agreement with the Soviet Union whereby sugar would be sold at 11c/lb, a 2c premium to the prevailing world market price. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed everything. From this time, Cuban sugar was sold to the Former Soviet Union at world market prices. At the start of 1992 world market sugar prices were around 8.50c/lb. The effect of lower prices on the Cuban industry was catastrophic. Under the Soviet trade deal, farmers and mills had no incentive to modernize or become more efficient and they were now exposed. At first the industry tried to hide the problems through the widespread practice of cutting immature cane in the ‘wrong’ season to try to hit current year cane targets. This came at the cost of lower cane production in the following year. Cuban sugar production halved from around 7m tonnes (raw value) in the early 1990s to 3.4m mtrv in 1994/95. The government implemented measures designed to stem the widespread economic decline, breaking up many state farms into smaller, more autonomous cooperative units. However, cane was still purchased by mills based on weight, not sucrose content, with minimal bonuses offered for exceeding tonnages outlined in annual plans. Farms were not incentivized to outperform. After 2001, with the country facing economic hardship, the government announced the permanent closure of 71 of its 156 sugar mills to improve the industry’s performance. A further 40 mills were shut in 2005. From a peak of 8.5m tonnes sugar production in 1969/70, output has fallen by 95%.
There is no such place called Ukraine no more ! Maybe next time when Neil Armstrong after his resurrection will walk back on the moon and Bin Landen will rebuild em twin towers blown by the Mossad will be a book written to remind the generations in their way to come there was a place called Ukraine . United Slave Agency is doomed big time ! I’m embarrassed to say am an American citizen !
Black out every single day. Speak with my family daily. Hard to sleep without fans because heat and mosquitos very bad. Mostly the back outs are in evenings.
Can't believe that news clip called a frigate the flagship of the Northern Fleet. Too funny. (the actual flagship is the 40 year old Russian battlecruiser, the petyr veliky). Russia wasn't taking the risk of a mid-sea breakdown on this highly publicized voyage, so sent only their newest ships instead. Russia only builds frigates and smaller warships these days, though they have talked about someday building a destroyer.
A French colleague of mine recently visited Havana and found out that she couldn't get electricity in her hotel room for 6 hours every day. Also things like WhatsApp are censored
Most of the US visitors to Cuba are the children and grand children of Cuban dissidents born in the US going to Cuba to assist grand parents, aunts, uncles and other family members and friends bringing money and helping open Cuban businesses using their acquired skillset for their families to run to make a living the best they can under the circumstances. Tourism isn't the priority it's business; since they have very poor accommodations and low quality food supplies that what they do have is very expensive for what you could get vacationing elsewhere with a maintained beach.
we told cuba thousand times to not mess with them. blame the old generation who still holds power in cuba. they for some reason are all in cahoots with russian oligarchs.
@@TheFrewah I'm Cuban with plenty of relatives living in Cuba. I assure you there is no embargo. As for sanctions, list them for us. I'll quickly debunk them.
@@planerep cuban cigarr are not allowed in US are they? EU was lifting the sanction 2008 but put some back in 2010 when some dessidents was killed by the communists.
it already can be considered a miracle that those ruSSian warships did reach Cuba. Now the US can take a complete electromagnetic, radar and sonar signature of them easily, which allows for automated detection in the future, any time, anywhere. Great move, Pootin! A 5D chessplayer.
@@zachvanwolf2123 Yes USA has developed, but Cuba has Not. All Other Latinamerican countries has (Except Haiti) a better development than Cuba. Cuba needs to have democracy and free election, so the real peoples voice can be heard.
@@waynemasters8673 No war, USA will not invade Cuba or Venezuela, they have to make up thire own minds about thire future. Ether the population flees or the Regime has to change. Both countries will die out, if nothing changes.
@therealscot2491 it already has . It passed the point of no recovery a long long time ago. Only total ignorance would think that Russia can survive what Putin has done. Just the population alone Russia can't recover from the death and exodus. The economy is way way way gone , sanctions will last for decades after the war is over if Russia can somehow maintain a " hermit" state like N.Korea but that won't be the case. Yes fella Russia has already collapsed . The stock exchange and rubbish ruble are only the beginning of a painful realization.
@@jonmassey5619 you could combine every 3rd world country and they would just become a giant 3rd world country . they dont want to advance. all they want is just to "have technology". thats it. not reinvent or develop. which is why many 3rd world countries who only use math and science ; go nowhere. they think they can be advanced with 1 computer; when economy is undeveloped. LOL
Cuba suffers not because of what Trump did but because they clung to an ideology and political stance that their principle alli abandoned 30 years ago. Yeah, the US did them wrong 60 years ago, but even Vietnam and the US have mended fences, and they fought for 20 years. Stubbornness is not attractive quality in a potential partner. The US taps could be turned on and problems solved in a short period if the political leaders of Cuba instituted political reforms to attract US attention. Until then, the US has no obligations to end Cuba's sufferings.
go visit, speak to them. what political reforms do you want? to be like the USA where the people only have 2 old men to vote for where no mater what the 1% will get richer and the poor poorer. Cuba has for 20 years instigated change introducing democratic socialism and are aware that to go full capitalism would just hand over all to foreign money. want a comparison look at its neighbour Haiti that is what USA wants Cuba to be go take a look at that cess pit. USA should stop holding Cuba to ransom it will only help Cuba if Cuba allow a USA puppet in power and allow USA banks to own Cuba. Other countries would help but USA threatens with sanctions and fines they can do this because the dollar is the world currency, its is immoral as fk. Cubans remember how they were used prior to 1957 by USA and you may not like it but China and Ruzzia offer help without ownership
@@gbarhip It might be two old men but one of them belongs to a party that helped companies move their union jobs to China helping to bring down the middle class, that would be Reagan and every Republican president since has done nothing but give bigger tax breaks to the rich and companies and that is what Trump promised those businessmen to lower their taxes more if elected. So my vote is for Biden.
And Trump. A savage like Batista will create environment for revolution but Castro wasnt any better. Hopefully they move toward more toward true democracy and reform. I'd like to see Cuba succeed without being run by US corporate interests.
they have been sending oil for decades. cuban govt does not want to do anything ; but for its members to get paid. im very curious why the people of cuba never had a coup to remove the communist govt in cuba?
Joe, the crisis in the 1960 was not the Bay of Pigs, but the Cuban Missile Crisis. And the US wasn't concerned the USSR would build 'nuclear bases' or nuclear facilities, but the concern was that the USSR was stationing nuclear armed missiles in Cuba at the time.
I went to Cuba at the end of 2016. The Cuban people are very friendly and they like Americans! They don't want to live under an oppressive government. They want more political and economic freedom. I can tell you Cuba is quite beautiful. Lots of very well-preserved history and museums. They have an amazing park on San Juan Hill with a statue of Teddy Roosevelt. And yes, they have thousands and thousands of old 1950's American cars! I hope we change our policy on Cuba. We should be trading with them not pushing them back to Russia.
I hate the oppression of the Cuban people. Who doesn`t let their people onto the World Wide Web? But, I agree, the embargo serves no purpose, and should be ended. The soldiers and the police eat, but, the people don´t.
the embargo is supported by the Cubans on the island the removal of the regime is what they want not the embargo it does not affect them only affects the regime in Cuba the CCP has a blockeade as we called there to his own people.
@@stephenLarson-vs7fu If we had western investments and capital going into Cuba, they would overthrow the oppressive government. Also, everyone had Chinese made cell phones and laptops and tablets. I would love to see western companies get in there and compete. The first Cuban self-made millionaire will be the last days of the old guard party
The self inflicted wound of the Cuban Revolution (a gift which keeps on giving pain) is that the Cuban educated classes left the country. Any innovation was squelched as a threat to Castro's dictatorship of the peasantry left behind. One of many examples is electrical power. Cuba had plenty of sun. Cuba has enough engineers. Chinese solar panels are cheap, etc. etc. Tragic 🇨🇺
It's like you said, the smart people left, so the obvious is not so obvious. China would have been a better economic alli for Cuba than Russia is. To do it now, though, would end all possibilities of ever mending fences with the US, and that is really their only salvation.
I used to work for a man from Cuba. He was an engineering and architecture student in the run up to Castro.He said his motivation to back Castro, even though his family were landowners, was their hatred of the Battista regime and it's corrupt ties to the gambling industry. in Havana. The blockade of Cuba due to the influence of the exiles is what did Cuba in.
Two failing economies thinking that joining forces can save them. cuba at best gets a short term reprieve and russia accelerates their on going decline. Long term outlook 2 separate populations saying enough is enough and any threat those 2 nations posed will be redirected to internal crowd control. Living in SoFlo I can see the uptick in activity in Homestead AB and expect it is likely to be the opening moves to possibly reactivated from reserve base to active base.
If Russia's Black Sea Fleet is any indication of their Navy's performance, I don't think America is losing any sleep over this. Ukraine has nearly destroyed the Black Sea Fleet, and Ukraine doesn't even have a navy.
The interesting thing with Cuba is that all their problems could go away with a few years if their relations with the US got better but they just keep doing what they have done for decades.
The big issue is the USA demands that Cuba "gives back" all the property it "stole" after the revolution kicked out all the mob bosses and scammers ruining cuba. Cuba will never agree to this. It is the USA that is fked up, the trade with Vietnam geez, I guess the made Vietnam return all our dead soliders first...
With Russian ships going down regularly in the Black Sea, this could just be moving ships to a temporary safe area or an attempt to distract from Ukraine.
It’s sort of interesting the way you mention the Bay Of Pigs invasion in the same sentence as the Cuban Missile Crises. Having lived in Florida during this crises I was not aware of these two situations being related.
@@zacklewis342 My understanding is this is the first of her sub class, and that this is her first major overseas deployment. If it is, it’s new, if not it helps us pin sub sounds down further. It’s major either way. I wouldn’t have sent that particular sub on this mission myself, but I like keeping my cards close.
USA has a lot of responsibility for this. If they had tried to improve relationships with Cuba instead of imposing achaic, unnecessary sanctions, this wouldn't have happened.
Cuba needed an olive branch over a decade ago in aid of ending what seems to be a never ending blockade. Can't help but feel it's long been politically useful for some US politicians to kick Cuba for votes.
Obama gave them an olive branch and Cuba taking a dump on his legacy and Biden''s reelection chances. Hope ruSSia can subsidize Cuba while they go bankrupt trying to reclaim land Stalin got during his alliance with Hitler
The U.S missed a trick there. They should have helped out Cuba and instead it is a repeat set of circumstances from the Cuban crisis of the early '60's. Politicians never learn.
Very informative, cheers. A little concerninh however as I'm off to Cuba in about 10 days and was unaware of any of this when the trip was booked about 4 months ago...
Cuba and its economy are and have been suffering because of the U.S. embargo! Russia is willing to help, but its thousands of miles away and its economy is also tied up in its war and all its economic effort is geared toward this conflict! Sending war ships to Cuba only makes the U.S. more likely to strengthen its embargo and further dampen the Cuban economy! Cubas only hope is to rely on LatinAmerica and strengthen its ties to countries that are able to help like Venezuela with its huge oil reserves and Mexico to supply comestibles and gas and oil! Obviously emigration is attractive and we’re seeing lots of Cubans trying to get into the U.S. and Mexico to establish themselves and send back money to their families. It seems that tensions are increasing in so many fronts throughout the world! Europe, Asia, the Middle East and now Cuba!
What would you expect? Why wouldn't China and Russia become our near neighbors. Russia has the same. I do think that regardless of what Cuba is today, it was damn stupid not to have nurtured a relationship that would benefit the Cubans & in turn the Americans. We could have turned things around
@@BeardofBeesPool BRICS is a business cartel. It's not USA and their muppets in NATO. The real states have no friends. They have interests😎 China defeated the West economically, Russia used NATO sexually in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine 😁
Warships oh my lord I am laughing so hard. I spent 22 years in the military and actually went to war. Do you understand one is a tug boat and one is fueler??? They are being followed by nuclear attack subs. It would be literal minutes from the second the president gave the green light to when those ships would be sunk. Jesus this is the best comedy I have seen in weeks.
The incident with nuclear weapons brought in Cuba by the USSR in the 60s was not the Bay of Pigs one (this was the attempt of invasion by anti-Castro forces supported by CIA). You meant the "7 days of May" incident.
Mexico is sending oil to Cuba. And supporting the government with financial aids (as contracting Cuban “doctors”). So far the US has not put its foot down. Let’s see how it plays.
Such an impressive fleet. A tugboat, a tanker, one old warship and one submarine. All running away from those Ukrainian drones.
Not running away. Obviously the Russians have a plan.
Putin did the stupid. Said it was going to arm countries or individuals to attack the West leaving the solution to the extreme agenda to end Russia.. Mr. Hodges, I think the US has found its directive in Ukraine.
Thank you for showing the reality of my small island. This torture needs to end, now!
you have confused the Bay of Pigs (US-backed coup attempt) with the Cuban Missile Crisis (Soviet missiles in Cuba). Not the same
True.
Joe has confused the two at least twice in recent videos.
Different events.
attempt they should try again Cuba really needs to get out of communism now protest have happened since 2021 people are desperate for the regime to fall already.
1 Frigate 1 sub 1 tanker and 1 tug are not a threat. It is an embarrasment.
It's a ruski nukular sub, so yeah, its a threat ... to the nearby environment
Zircon missiles? how many have those gone to Ukraine?
Russia set Cuba back by 50 years, and they are about to do it again. Time for Cuba to break the chain.
Soviet abused cuba and now russia.
Fulgencio Batista remember him. poor foreign relations at the beckon call of USA business who wanted to buy Cuba out from under Cubans. something billionaires are willing to do to our own citizens. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi shah of Iran the same . We are not with our sins.
Cuba did that to itself.
Worst case scenario, us did it.
Companies don't like it when governments go 'yoink, mine now'
They're hurting economically and need all the help they can get. Also they're an authoritarian regime and unless that government wants to retire and magically become a democracy then they're going to ally with other regimes. Also this 19:47
You are exactly right on target! Putin is the backwards politician bringing death destruction and misery like in Russia!
They are safer in Cuba than anywhere close to Russian territory.
What about Pearl Harbour and US fleet? 😅
😁😁😁
Luckily for them, the Turks won't allow them to go and die in the Black Sea.
@@Infopirates Ask the ones who ordered the attack!?!
Only an orc would celebrate a sneak attack. However, since the last Tsar got killed that is the cowardly war of Russians in war. Modern Russia is a country bereft of honor. Mother Russia is the streetwalker of Europe. It would be nice if she would stop trying to force her dubious wares on the poor Ukrainian guy. No means no.
The US should ensure that Ukraine is able to turn each of these ships into bottom dwellers
About those ruSSian ships going to Cuba. Perhaps someone should start a go fund me account for Ukraine to purchase fishing boats and/or seaplane(s) so Ukraine can sit in waiting for the ruSSian ships to enter/leave Cuba into international waters. I imagine the fishing boats/seaplanes acting like the mother ship for a bunch or rubber boats. Once Ukraine gets word the ruSSian ships are approaching international waters, Ukraine launches a bunch of manned rubber boats (to lower radar footprint) with several of those wonderfully effective Ukrainian sea drones in various strategic places to discreetly sit and wait. When the ruSSian ships are in range, the rubber boats launch the swarms of sea drones and...
Agree. Give them the armament they need to wreak havoc on the Black Sea fleet.
Hahaha your time is past
What Americans can do about Nothing just cry
Unbelievable, 21st century and still struggling with food, only because one man decided to take Cuba back to the 1920s, a revolution is needed
You mean Castro.
Camilo and Ernesto were involved too.
They would have food, but decades with an embargo kind of makes even feeding your population quite a hard task
@@NotASeriousMoose Removing incentative is FAR more important.
America is wrong for everything with sanction
The problem with Cuba is that they replaced a very bad guy (Batista) by a worse authoritarian guy(Castro)
fidel is gone. but his son; still wants to control it.
I'm not sure about that, but observing countries like Cuba and Venezuela, comparing them with evil right dictatorships, it might be so that so called social paradises have a greater chance of survival.
@@elkiebeerepoot5829 Cuba should do better than just surviving
These administrations are usurpers of power, or a terrorist or other similar attack has been used as an excuse for usurping power.
It only leads to the victory of the most violent beast of all, or the victory of the demonically intelligent one.
Taking administrative power, and the desire for power, only leads to the victory of the most violent beast of all, or the victory of the demonically intelligent one.
Russia pretending that they are sending their major naval assets to Cuba for any other reason that safety.
Same playbook as Ukraine and NATO, USA can cry a that hypocritical river
@@Hellofa6ird Forced to flee across an ocean by a country without a navy.
@@Hellofa6ird I don't think the USA are crying. I think you wish they were.
@@Hellofa6ird😂😂😂😂😂... here's the difference, dummy: US is providing weapons to Ukraine and they are using them and can use, any minute, in Russian soil. Who Russia will give weapons to attack the US in US soil?
Do you really think a submarine and a handful of boats will level the ground?😂😂😂
@@Hellofa6irdlmao, USA laughing as they get all the test data they want on Russia’s Yasen-M class submarine.
To be fair, if she'd said, "Yeah, its capitalism and it's clearly better than socialism." on a public interview? She'd have been thrown in the gulag.
The media makes a big fuss about Russia being able to scrap 4 ships together to go to Havana, wheras the US Navy still rules the seas
Cuba has been made making all the wrong geopolitical choices for decades.
Its never going to be a vassal of the US no matter what dirty tricks they pull
The US should have been taking care of Cuba, but that ship sailed. If Putin plants nukes, he wont be scared off by the US.
You can place the blame for Cuba's mess at the feet of L B Johnson - when he was sent to assess Castro's concerns, he reported that the US should not support him, but continue with Batista. That made Castro to turn to the Soviets for aid.
You can place the blame for Cuba's mess at the feet of L B Johnson - when he was sent to assess Castro's concerns, he reported that the US should not support him, but continue with Batista. That made Castro to turn to the Soviets for aid.
The United States, Russia and their people do not care about the problems of Cuba and Venezuela. It's all about money, power and greed. Both countries do not care about the Cuban and Venezuelan people.And also Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.
Gee - one submarine and one frigate. Wow. Plus an oiler and a tugboat. Double wow. US Navy must be quaking in fear.
Hypersonic missiles are what they are afraid of not the fleet. The US Navy dispatched ships to watch them for good reason.
@@quartermaster1976 failed so badly in Ukraine war, so no reason to be afraid
@@quartermaster1976dude... if they shoot one single missile, Russia will be leveled. They cannot afford two wars at a time. Plus the economic war. And if they strike first, China will NOT support them. The US- China economic bond is far stronger and far more important than the one they may have with Russia.
The only part of the US military that is quaking in fear is the Executive, I'd bet he shit himself when those ships first showed up.
@@quartermaster1976singular US destroyer has more missiles than both Russian submarine and frigate combined.
I love how they brought a tug boat along! It'd be funny if it wasn't incredibly sad and desperate.
I saw an article that said they use these noisy old boats to mask the real “signature” of the submarine.
On the practical side, there's nothing wrong with bringing a ship along that can help other ships should there be engine problem. That being said the Russian navy has had a long history of these tugboats actually being needed.
Part of US carrier group
Certo, altrimenti non riuscirebbero a tornare a casa
the Admiral Kuznetsov must be docked, which freed up the tug
The crew on those ships probably consider themselves very lucky they aren't in Ukraine.
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I told my sons that opportunity will open up with Boomers retiring.
Touring Cuba is like going back 60 years back in time😲 the land time forgot.
I was at Cuba 2 months ago.
At the hotel never saw butter , bread shortage, even plastic cups and spoons were missing
The average Cuban has had very little access to imported food for many years. Most Cubans that have a small patch of land, have animals ( pig, goats, chickens) and they grow their own food. The local markets sell produce that is in season and has been grown in Cuba. One week it is onions. Next week it is garlic.
The tourist hotels get imported food that the average Cuban never sees.
Long Live the Revolution!!!
😵💫
Nope, clearly you've never been there. Most people in Havana or other cities don't have land. Even the big hotels didn't have much food...
@FirstLast-rh9jw I spent 2 months there. Clearly you have never been out of Havana. Cuba a far bigger than Havana.
What happened to the sugar plantations?
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul One opinion. Mismanagement.
In 1972 Cuba joined the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) and negotiated a new long-term trade agreement with the Soviet Union whereby sugar would be sold at 11c/lb, a 2c premium to the prevailing world market price.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed everything. From this time, Cuban sugar was sold to the Former Soviet Union at world market prices. At the start of 1992 world market sugar prices were around 8.50c/lb.
The effect of lower prices on the Cuban industry was catastrophic. Under the Soviet trade deal, farmers and mills had no incentive to modernize or become more efficient and they were now exposed. At first the industry tried to hide the problems through the widespread practice of cutting immature cane in the ‘wrong’ season to try to hit current year cane targets. This came at the cost of lower cane production in the following year. Cuban sugar production halved from around 7m tonnes (raw value) in the early 1990s to 3.4m mtrv in 1994/95.
The government implemented measures designed to stem the widespread economic decline, breaking up many state farms into smaller, more autonomous cooperative units. However, cane was still purchased by mills based on weight, not sucrose content, with minimal bonuses offered for exceeding tonnages outlined in annual plans. Farms were not incentivized to outperform.
After 2001, with the country facing economic hardship, the government announced the permanent closure of 71 of its 156 sugar mills to improve the industry’s performance. A further 40 mills were shut in 2005.
From a peak of 8.5m tonnes sugar production in 1969/70, output has fallen by 95%.
"It's not capitalism , it's socialism evolving" lol , I died
Well, she has a point ^^
@@julonkrutor4649 Socialism evolving into capitalism?
@@thomaslunde5014 Why not? Just do what works. Sometimes Capitalism works and sometimes it doesn't . (LIke the US healthcare thing.)
She’s choosing her words carefully, that’s a skill you learn living with no freedom.
comedy gold
Glory to Ukraines independence
It was independent until it became a puppet of the US
US and BlackRock have now already bought more than 30% of all agricultural land in Ukraine! Independently???
Ukraine was independent until it became a puppet of the US
There is no such place called Ukraine no more ! Maybe next time when Neil Armstrong after his resurrection will walk back on the moon and Bin Landen will rebuild em twin towers blown by the Mossad will be a book written to remind the generations in their way to come there was a place called Ukraine . United Slave Agency is doomed big time ! I’m embarrassed to say am an American citizen !
Huh1 we are taking about Cuba here , Cuba
Black out every single day. Speak with my family daily. Hard to sleep without fans because heat and mosquitos very bad. Mostly the back outs are in evenings.
Can't believe that news clip called a frigate the flagship of the Northern Fleet. Too funny. (the actual flagship is the 40 year old Russian battlecruiser, the petyr veliky). Russia wasn't taking the risk of a mid-sea breakdown on this highly publicized voyage, so sent only their newest ships instead. Russia only builds frigates and smaller warships these days, though they have talked about someday building a destroyer.
A French colleague of mine recently visited Havana and found out that she couldn't get electricity in her hotel room for 6 hours every day. Also things like WhatsApp are censored
Perfect case of Blind leading the blind.
Cuba's problem is very simple to resolve.
"GIVE UP COMMUNISM" LBV
Is Argentina ok? 🤓
Most of the US visitors to Cuba are the children and grand children of Cuban dissidents born in the US going to Cuba to assist grand parents, aunts, uncles and other family members and friends bringing money and helping open Cuban businesses using their acquired skillset for their families to run to make a living the best they can under the circumstances. Tourism isn't the priority it's business; since they have very poor accommodations and low quality food supplies that what they do have is very expensive for what you could get vacationing elsewhere with a maintained beach.
and Cuba is wondering why the US refuses to trade with them
You're wrong. US trades openly with Cuba. There is no embargo.
we told cuba thousand times to not mess with them. blame the old generation who still holds power in cuba. they for some reason are all in cahoots with russian oligarchs.
@@planerepwhat makes you think there are no sanctions?
@@TheFrewah I'm Cuban with plenty of relatives living in Cuba. I assure you there is no embargo. As for sanctions, list them for us. I'll quickly debunk them.
@@planerep cuban cigarr are not allowed in US are they?
EU was lifting the sanction 2008 but put some back in 2010 when some dessidents was killed by the communists.
Had to giggle a US nuclear sub anchored in Gitmo hours after the Russians arrived
“ No it’s Socialism evolving” into capitalism. That poor lady couldn’t say it was capitalism.
Not if she wanted to keep seeing sunlight
@@renaissancenovice7202
10 years in prison
Nose rings are for slaves and farm animals - which is she? Inquiring minds want to know.
it already can be considered a miracle that those ruSSian warships did reach Cuba. Now the US can take a complete electromagnetic, radar and sonar signature of them easily, which allows for automated detection in the future, any time, anywhere. Great move, Pootin! A 5D chessplayer.
The man is a genius 😂
He remains the master strategist.
Nice of Russia to let USN and Canadian naval assets track a real target for free!
I bet those Russian sailors let off a huge sigh of relief when they were told they were going for a relative safe haven in Cuba for a bit.
Cuba could have been a prosperous country if it allied with the US instead of Russia!
The US wouldn’t have let Cuba’s corrupt leaders stay in power.
But Cuba was 'allied' with the USA, but in a rather one-sided alliance. The other alliance for over 60 years suited them less, though.
@@zachvanwolf2123 Yes USA has developed, but Cuba has Not. All Other Latinamerican countries has (Except Haiti) a better development than Cuba. Cuba needs to have democracy and free election, so the real peoples voice can be heard.
Sounds like the beginning of an 8 yr long war.
@@waynemasters8673 No war, USA will not invade Cuba or Venezuela, they have to make up thire own minds about thire future. Ether the population flees or the Regime has to change. Both countries will die out, if nothing changes.
Isn't that rich , a country on the verge of collapse is trying to bail out a country on the verge of collapse 😂😂
Russia isn't going to collapse like you think.
@@therealscot2491 it definitely is
@therealscot2491 it already has . It passed the point of no recovery a long long time ago. Only total ignorance would think that Russia can survive what Putin has done. Just the population alone Russia can't recover from the death and exodus. The economy is way way way gone , sanctions will last for decades after the war is over if Russia can somehow maintain a " hermit" state like N.Korea but that won't be the case. Yes fella Russia has already collapsed . The stock exchange and rubbish ruble are only the beginning of a painful realization.
The only people concerned about the Russian navy visiting Cuba are various media outlets.
I can only imagine how many subs are under them Russian ships waiting for them to make a mistake.
WORD!!!
Two failed economies teaming up. So scary 😉
😂😂😂👍
LOL - What could possibly go wrong!!! 😄😁😁😁
@@jonmassey5619 you could combine every 3rd world country and they would just become a giant 3rd world country . they dont want to advance. all they want is just to "have technology". thats it. not reinvent or develop. which is why many 3rd world countries who only use math and science ; go nowhere. they think they can be advanced with 1 computer; when economy is undeveloped. LOL
Maybe Cuba will join the mighty BRICS 😂
And then they are sceduled to go to Venezuela......
Cuba suffers not because of what Trump did but because they clung to an ideology and political stance that their principle alli abandoned 30 years ago.
Yeah, the US did them wrong 60 years ago, but even Vietnam and the US have mended fences, and they fought for 20 years.
Stubbornness is not attractive quality in a potential partner.
The US taps could be turned on and problems solved in a short period if the political leaders of Cuba instituted political reforms to attract US attention.
Until then, the US has no obligations to end Cuba's sufferings.
100%
go visit, speak to them. what political reforms do you want? to be like the USA where the people only have 2 old men to vote for where no mater what the 1% will get richer and the poor poorer. Cuba has for 20 years instigated change introducing democratic socialism and are aware that to go full capitalism would just hand over all to foreign money. want a comparison look at its neighbour Haiti that is what USA wants Cuba to be go take a look at that cess pit. USA should stop holding Cuba to ransom it will only help Cuba if Cuba allow a USA puppet in power and allow USA banks to own Cuba. Other countries would help but USA threatens with sanctions and fines they can do this because the dollar is the world currency, its is immoral as fk. Cubans remember how they were used prior to 1957 by USA and you may not like it but China and Ruzzia offer help without ownership
@@gbarhip It might be two old men but one of them belongs to a party that helped companies move their union jobs to China helping to bring down the middle class, that would be Reagan and every Republican president since has done nothing but give bigger tax breaks to the rich and companies and that is what Trump promised those businessmen to lower their taxes more if elected. So my vote is for Biden.
And Trump. A savage like Batista will create environment for revolution but Castro wasnt any better. Hopefully they move toward more toward true democracy and reform. I'd like to see Cuba succeed without being run by US corporate interests.
@@gbarhip*Too much Vodka - it's time for your nappy- Ivan.*
Cuba seems abundantly qualified to join BRICS 🤣
Aggressively qualified, Venezuela too! Ragtags gotta stick together!!!
BRICS 🤣
I think Cuba is expecting more aid from Russia. Will be interesting to see how that works out!
Probably the same economic collapse you've told us about so many times for Russia, Turkey and China, Joe. Thanks for the heads up.
F Russia 😮
Same with the UK 🇬🇧 from the USA 🇺🇸
And Hell, Israel
Wondering what currency the Russians will use in Cuba rubbles or pesos?
Potatoes
Cubans will have some difficulty with trading rubles anywhere else.
When she said it wasn't Capitalism, but Socialism "evolving", I bust out laughing. 😂😂😂😂
its almost like socialism is more than one thing that youre all scared of?
pootin is incapable of learning what "fk around & find out" means.
He is going to find out.
He’s finding out in Ukraine
@@Kodakcompactdisc Slava Ukraine. He will be stopped permanently there and Cuba will just make it quicker IMHO.
America is the biggest warmongers 🤮🤮🇺🇸🇺🇸
Your insights are timely, balanced, and of great value to me!
they have been sending oil for decades. cuban govt does not want to do anything ; but for its members to get paid. im very curious why the people of cuba never had a coup to remove the communist govt in cuba?
No guns and starving to death.
@@lorla151 no guns? lol. can gang up on a soldier and take his gun. lol.
Joe, the crisis in the 1960 was not the Bay of Pigs, but the Cuban Missile Crisis. And the US wasn't concerned the USSR would build 'nuclear bases' or nuclear facilities, but the concern was that the USSR was stationing nuclear armed missiles in Cuba at the time.
I went to Cuba at the end of 2016. The Cuban people are very friendly and they like Americans! They don't want to live under an oppressive government. They want more political and economic freedom. I can tell you Cuba is quite beautiful. Lots of very well-preserved history and museums. They have an amazing park on San Juan Hill with a statue of Teddy Roosevelt. And yes, they have thousands and thousands of old 1950's American cars! I hope we change our policy on Cuba. We should be trading with them not pushing them back to Russia.
I hate the oppression of the Cuban people. Who doesn`t let their people onto the World Wide Web? But, I agree, the embargo serves no purpose, and should be ended. The soldiers and the police eat, but, the people don´t.
the embargo is supported by the Cubans on the island the removal of the regime is what they want not the embargo it does not affect them only affects the regime in Cuba the CCP has a blockeade as we called there to his own people.
@@stephenLarson-vs7fu If we had western investments and capital going into Cuba, they would overthrow the oppressive government. Also, everyone had Chinese made cell phones and laptops and tablets. I would love to see western companies get in there and compete. The first Cuban self-made millionaire will be the last days of the old guard party
Thank you for the interesting information.
To evacuate the junta…Or protect ethnic Russians. 😃
Good one.
The self inflicted wound of the Cuban Revolution (a gift which keeps on giving pain) is that the Cuban educated classes left the country.
Any innovation was squelched as a threat to Castro's dictatorship of the peasantry left behind.
One of many examples is electrical power. Cuba had plenty of sun. Cuba has enough engineers. Chinese solar panels are cheap, etc. etc.
Tragic 🇨🇺
It's like you said, the smart people left, so the obvious is not so obvious.
China would have been a better economic alli for Cuba than Russia is.
To do it now, though, would end all possibilities of ever mending fences with the US, and that is really their only salvation.
I used to work for a man from Cuba. He was an engineering and architecture student in the run up to Castro.He said his motivation to back Castro, even though his family were landowners, was their hatred of the Battista regime and it's corrupt ties to the gambling industry. in Havana.
The blockade of Cuba due to the influence of the exiles is what did Cuba in.
Two failing economies thinking that joining forces can save them. cuba at best gets a short term reprieve and russia accelerates their on going decline. Long term outlook 2 separate populations saying enough is enough and any threat those 2 nations posed will be redirected to internal crowd control.
Living in SoFlo I can see the uptick in activity in Homestead AB and expect it is likely to be the opening moves to possibly reactivated from reserve base to active base.
US Dollar no more a reserve currency your days are gone.
The US needs to send its own “wake up call”.
Uncle Joe wakes up at 10 when the drugs kick in.
The war ships could also be a advertisement to Cubans to get fresh meat for Ukraine’s war.
It wouldn't be unprecedented.
Russia drafted a ton of Cubans in the 1980s to fight in Angola 🇦🇴.
Love your ducks and the video was great as usual. Thanks for all the research you do. Have a wonderful father's Day 😊
Joe, at the onset, you're conflating the Bay of Pigs with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Correct.
Different events.
Plus he said Russia, not the Soviet Union.
Another very interesting repoprt, thanks.
If Russia's Black Sea Fleet is any indication of their Navy's performance, I don't think America is losing any sleep over this. Ukraine has nearly destroyed the Black Sea Fleet, and Ukraine doesn't even have a navy.
The interesting thing with Cuba is that all their problems could go away with a few years if their relations with the US got better but they just keep doing what they have done for decades.
The big issue is the USA demands that Cuba "gives back" all the property it "stole" after the revolution kicked out all the mob bosses and scammers ruining cuba.
Cuba will never agree to this. It is the USA that is fked up, the trade with Vietnam geez, I guess the made Vietnam return all our dead soliders first...
The breathless, hyperbolic media coverage is so disingenuous. People hardly noticed and cared even less.😏
Don't spread lies Cuba is now strongest after getting support from Russia China North Korea and India.
It's getting weaker daily. Just ask the Cubans.
With Russian ships going down regularly in the Black Sea, this could just be moving ships to a temporary safe area or an attempt to distract from Ukraine.
ruSSa: hello, my old friend!
Cuba: not now, fck off.. shooo..
😂
It’s sort of interesting the way you mention the Bay Of Pigs invasion in the same sentence as the Cuban Missile Crises. Having lived in Florida during this crises I was not aware of these two situations being related.
It’s an intelligence bonanza. We have four different sensor systems tracking the submarine in particular.
Not at all, that sub was likely characterized years ago. Just more real-world training in tracking.
@@zacklewis342
My understanding is this is the first of her sub class, and that this is her first major overseas deployment. If it is, it’s new, if not it helps us pin sub sounds down further.
It’s major either way. I wouldn’t have sent that particular sub on this mission myself, but I like keeping my cards close.
Thank you for putting in the many hours of research to bring us news around the world. 💯🏆💫
During COVID every foreigner was forced to leave. Why would they want to return?
Thanks!
I don't think communism will fall in Cuba. 65 years of it are deeply rooted in the population.
It's also deeply rooted in the economy, which has utterly failed. Change is inevitable.
@@zacklewis342 I don't think so. Cubans don't have the balls for it
American Tourist could turn Cuba into Paradise. I would love togo to Cuba.
What’s stopping you? You could enjoy world class beaches at a fraction of thr price.
@@HeadHunter-Six Against the law? You a child?
USA has a lot of responsibility for this. If they had tried to improve relationships with Cuba instead of imposing achaic, unnecessary sanctions, this wouldn't have happened.
The US did the right thing by not trading with human right oppressors.
@@juannunez8080 USA is second to Europe in human rights violation. What are u going on about? You think they are angels?
@@juannunez8080 You mean the Chinese Communist Party right?
Those ducks were well cute 🥰
Highly recommend Porto's Cuban bakery if you're ever in Los Angeles, Joe! Great video! 👏
Cuba... home land of Canadian prime minister....
Thanks for covering this Joe
Cuba needed an olive branch over a decade ago in aid of ending what seems to be a never ending blockade. Can't help but feel it's long been politically useful for some US politicians to kick Cuba for votes.
Rubio and Scott!
Oh no, American politicians are mean to brutal dictatorships.
Obama gave them an olive branch and Cuba taking a dump on his legacy and Biden''s reelection chances. Hope ruSSia can subsidize Cuba while they go bankrupt trying to reclaim land Stalin got during his alliance with Hitler
Great clip to end the video today
The U.S missed a trick there. They should have helped out Cuba and instead it is a repeat set of circumstances from the Cuban crisis of the early '60's. Politicians never learn.
they could not, since the communist started to take america companys and property.
Why? Cuba is giving more weight to pride... yet... pride cannot feed the people
Why does the US have to help every ailing country? You can't solve incompetence/corruption if their own people supports it.
A visit by a boat is a repeat of the Cuban Missile crisis? Idiot. We don't help communists who stole hundreds of millions of dollars in US property.
In fact trying to open up with Cuba is one of the few things Obama tried to get done, but the florida republicans could not help but fk it up.
Very informative, cheers. A little concerninh however as I'm off to Cuba in about 10 days and was unaware of any of this when the trip was booked about 4 months ago...
Cuba and its economy are and have been suffering because of the U.S. embargo! Russia is willing to help, but its thousands of miles away and its economy is also tied up in its war and all its economic effort is geared toward this conflict! Sending war ships to Cuba only makes the U.S. more likely to strengthen its embargo and further dampen the Cuban economy! Cubas only hope is to rely on LatinAmerica and strengthen its ties to countries that are able to help like Venezuela with its huge oil reserves and Mexico to supply comestibles and gas and oil! Obviously emigration is attractive and we’re seeing lots of Cubans trying to get into the U.S. and Mexico to establish themselves and send back money to their families. It seems that tensions are increasing in so many fronts throughout the world! Europe, Asia, the Middle East and now Cuba!
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the majority of food and money in Cuba comes from USA not from Russia
Joe! , Thanks for posting this video
What would you expect? Why wouldn't China and Russia become our near neighbors. Russia has the same. I do think that regardless of what Cuba is today, it was damn stupid not to have nurtured a relationship that would benefit the Cubans & in turn the Americans. We could have turned things around
China will help financially. Russia will supply cheap resources. They will be ok😎
Will help? It's been 3 years already. They haven't done anything 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤡👍
@@BeardofBeesPool Did your media tell you so? Ok😅😅😅
There aren't Chinese companies in Africa too😁😁😁😁
@StPiter111 Putin visited China twice and gave him nothing. I watched it on RT. 🤣😂🤣🤪
@@StPiter111 Chinese are exploiting corrupt African countries to rob their natural resources & trap them in debt.
@@BeardofBeesPool BRICS is a business cartel. It's not USA and their muppets in NATO. The real states have no friends. They have interests😎
China defeated the West economically, Russia used NATO sexually in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine 😁
The sailors on those Russian warships are lucky not to serve in the Black Sea.
Warships oh my lord I am laughing so hard.
I spent 22 years in the military and actually went to war.
Do you understand one is a tug boat and one is fueler??? They are being followed by nuclear attack subs. It would be literal minutes from the second the president gave the green light to when those ships would be sunk.
Jesus this is the best comedy I have seen in weeks.
I'm laughing with you 🤣
I feel for the Cuban people. They have no more control over their officials than we do here in America, England, Africa, Russia, or any other country…
I can watch the news myself. I don't come here to watch it a second time.
The incident with nuclear weapons brought in Cuba by the USSR in the 60s was not the Bay of Pigs one (this was the attempt of invasion by anti-Castro forces supported by CIA). You meant the "7 days of May" incident.
I really appreciate your videos, Joe. Thanks!
You are so good Joe. Keep hitting them with the truth. And congratulations again for being hacked
"It´s socialism evolving" , i.e., into capitalism.
Thanks, great video. Would like to hear more re the CCP/Cuba alliance(s).
Thank you for your work.
Mexico is sending oil to Cuba. And supporting the government with financial aids (as contracting Cuban “doctors”). So far the US has not put its foot down. Let’s see how it plays.
That sail drone was pretty cool lol
Very interesting!
As if Russia could afford sending weapons into Cuba while it's struggling in Ukraine.