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Pretty hard to do big projects like this when you're sanctioned by the US and no company can work with you.

by antihero 5y ago

MomoXenosaga 5y ago
Nord Stream 2 was one of those few moments that made me proud as a European.
- oaiey 5y ago
  Hmm.. when I remember right, we European needed to take Russian help to avoid legal troubles with the US.
- corty 5y ago
  Not really, half the EU, especially the east, sided with the US in the matter. I think it was good that Germany didn't cave (yet), but European unity just wasn't there at all.
- koheripbal 5y ago
  Being more reliant on Russian gas supplies because you turned off you nuclear plants made you more proud?
- lucian1900 5y ago
  That happened due to the ongoing breakdown in the alliance between the US and Western European imperialist blocks. Sadly, it wasn’t due to some principled stance against US economic warfare.
- pantalaimon 5y ago
  What's there to be proud about when a foreign power manages to bring a local infrastructure project to a halt?
adolfojp 5y ago
Telecom Italia helped built Cuba's communications network before the Cuban government bought their shares and privatized the company. SES S.A. from Luxembourg connected Cuba to the world via satellite. Telefónica of Spain owns a significant run of Caribbean undersea fiber. They're actively trying to increase their business with Cuba but Cuba refuses to open more of its communications network. The following quote from José Ramón Machado Ventura, a high ranking Cuban official, offers an alternative explanation to why Cuba doesn't have better Internet. http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2015-07-11/a-los-jovenes-la-verdad-argumentada-y-no-el-dogma http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2015-07-11/a-los-jovenes-... >Todo el mundo sabe por qué en Cuba no hay más Internet, porque ello tiene un alto costo. Existen algunos que nos la quieren dar gratis, pero no lo hacen con el fin de que el pueblo cubano se comunique, sino con el propósito de penetrarnos y hacer trabajo ideológico para lograr una nueva conquista. Tenemos que poseer Internet, pero a nuestra forma, sabiendo que es una intención del imperialismo manejarla como una vía más de destruir a la Revolución. Rough translation >Everybody knows why cuba doesn't have more Internet, because it comes at a high cost. There are those who want to give it to us for free, but not with the intent of helping the Cuban people to communicate, but with the purpose of penetrating us and doing ideological work to create a new conquest. We need to have Internet, but our way, knowing that it is the intent of the imperialists to use it as a way to destroy the Revolution.

Pretty hard to do big projects like this when you're sanctioned by the US and no company can work with you.

MomoXenosaga 5y ago

Nord Stream 2 was one of those few moments that made me proud as a European.

oaiey 5y ago
Hmm.. when I remember right, we European needed to take Russian help to avoid legal troubles with the US.
corty 5y ago
Not really, half the EU, especially the east, sided with the US in the matter. I think it was good that Germany didn't cave (yet), but European unity just wasn't there at all.
koheripbal 5y ago
Being more reliant on Russian gas supplies because you turned off you nuclear plants made you more proud?
lucian1900 5y ago
That happened due to the ongoing breakdown in the alliance between the US and Western European imperialist blocks. Sadly, it wasn’t due to some principled stance against US economic warfare.
pantalaimon 5y ago
What's there to be proud about when a foreign power manages to bring a local infrastructure project to a halt?

adolfojp 5y ago

Telecom Italia helped built Cuba's communications network before the Cuban government bought their shares and privatized the company. SES S.A. from Luxembourg connected Cuba to the world via satellite. Telefónica of Spain owns a significant run of Caribbean undersea fiber. They're actively trying to increase their business with Cuba but Cuba refuses to open more of its communications network. The following quote from José Ramón Machado Ventura, a high ranking Cuban official, offers an alternative explanation to why Cuba doesn't have better Internet. http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2015-07-11/a-los-jovenes-la-verdad-argumentada-y-no-el-dogma http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2015-07-11/a-los-jovenes-... >Todo el mundo sabe por qué en Cuba no hay más Internet, porque ello tiene un alto costo. Existen algunos que nos la quieren dar gratis, pero no lo hacen con el fin de que el pueblo cubano se comunique, sino con el propósito de penetrarnos y hacer trabajo ideológico para lograr una nueva conquista. Tenemos que poseer Internet, pero a nuestra forma, sabiendo que es una intención del imperialismo manejarla como una vía más de destruir a la Revolución. Rough translation >Everybody knows why cuba doesn't have more Internet, because it comes at a high cost. There are those who want to give it to us for free, but not with the intent of helping the Cuban people to communicate, but with the purpose of penetrating us and doing ideological work to create a new conquest. We need to have Internet, but our way, knowing that it is the intent of the imperialists to use it as a way to destroy the Revolution.