Donald Trump has urged Cuba to “make a deal” or face consequences, warning that the flow of Venezuelan oil and money would now stop.
The US president has been turning his attention to Cuba since US forces seized Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro in a 3 January raid on its capital, Caracas.
Venezuela, a long-standing ally of Cuba, is believed to send around 35,000 barrels of oil a day to the island.
Cuba’s foreign minister responded by saying his nation retained the right to import fuel “without interference”, while its president said: “No one dictates what we do.”
This is actually a super great, yet incredibly terrifying analogy.
I’ve been thinking in these terms for the past decade and it helps come to terms with so much.
Russia attacking Ukraine: I used to own this area like 40 turns ago, about time I took it back.
China: Oh shit, I forgot I had all my city preferences to growth. I need to change those to science and industry.
US on Israel: Geeze, my city-state (Israel) is really being aggressive for no reason and pulling me into all sorts of conflicts. Buuuut, I really don’t want to lose that Religion bonus they give, so I’m going to just keep supporting them.
US on Venezuela: I need more oil, but don’t want to trade people for it, let’s look at where the closest tiles with oil resources are that I don’t control yet. Wtf, Venezuela has 5 oil tiles?! Oh I’m definitely going to grab those. It might not look good diplomatically, but they’ll get over it.
EU: Uh oh, I think the rest of the world is starting to notice that we’ve been focusing entirely on science and social research for the past 30 turns and that most of the big players are way ahead of us on Military research.
Africa as a whole is just that civ that got screwed over by a bunch of different civs early on and the AI has just stopped trying to advance or compete in any meaningful way.
Canada had a really solid, long-term alliance with the US and never had to worry about anything, but suddenly the US goals changed and they’ve been making ominous threats and comments about the comparative strength of their two militaries.