cuba is a society stuck in the mid twentieth century and they have no path forward out of their stagnation. the quality of life is reasonably good but it's at a cost of low efficiency everything, it has an unusually high carbon footprint and it's a matter of time before it rusts over and seizes and ceases to exist. this is not communism, it's a successful demonstration of a society that has thrived in isolation by refusing to adapt to the modern world and has no path forward but eventual and inevitable collapse.

the trudeau-chretien government made a lot of effort to reach out to cuba and was overwhelmingly frustrated by their belligerent responses. chretien is on record somewhere pointing out that canada did everything humanly possible to engage with the cubans, but they simply refused to help themselves.

how will the cubans emerge from isolation and what is the rest of the world to do? surely, we ought not wall them off like a caribbean sentinel island and send anthropologists in to observe them, to learn what it was like to live in the 1960s. we're pretty sure they're anatomically modern humans. the russians will not help them. they have nothing to offer the chinese. they have no future but america.

but i say to those comrades in cuba, those who are pure of heart, and who want to protect the revolucion, that all is not lost. i invite you to dust off your theory, and remember: the revolution must happen in america. come to america's streets. come to america's factories. the superproduction you have no access to in cuba is in truth within grasp in america.