It seems plausible though the chain of causation is pretty flimsy. The Cuban grid has been unstable since the US blockade started. It certainly could have gone out though because of the party would be hard to prove. And the people on ventilators could have died of other causes.
Curious about the place where this concert with the Irish band "Kneecap" took place, I was lookng for English language search results that would tell me about the "Pabellon Cuba".
What I found was an article from one of the people on this trip, making the same claim that all ventilator patients died, and placing the power failure simultaneous with concert at the Pabellon Cuba: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/turn-the-lights-back-on
Blockades are a form of siege warfare, which is traditionally productive of hideous disasters for innocent civilians. In fact, historically the Medieval blockades often intentionally blockaded the civilians in as well as everything else out, precisely to increase the consumption of necessities, impel tragedy, and compel a faster surrender. Michael Walzer's famous book on just war theory, Just and Unjust Wars, condemns siege warfare unless civilians are provided free passage.
Of course, it is the Cubans who forbid their 'citizens' free passage as much as anyone else. War is often a cruel business: perhaps the best thing is sometimes to end it as quickly as possible. If this embargo finally brings the Communist government to an end, it will doubtless prevent more suffering than it causes over time.
That would be an interesting approach, to blockade a place and offer its civilians safe passage out. That is where Game Theory versus merely "gaming out a problem" would be valuable. We could all imagine a first pass at what the government under siege might do, what the citizens might do, and what the potential receiving countries might do in response. But second-level responses would involve some thought, some contingencies. Trump could turn some purple districts red quickly, which would aid in acceptance by conservatives. But what would happen next?
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It seems plausible though the chain of causation is pretty flimsy. The Cuban grid has been unstable since the US blockade started. It certainly could have gone out though because of the party would be hard to prove. And the people on ventilators could have died of other causes.
Curious about the place where this concert with the Irish band "Kneecap" took place, I was lookng for English language search results that would tell me about the "Pabellon Cuba".
What I found was an article from one of the people on this trip, making the same claim that all ventilator patients died, and placing the power failure simultaneous with concert at the Pabellon Cuba: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/turn-the-lights-back-on
Blockades are a form of siege warfare, which is traditionally productive of hideous disasters for innocent civilians. In fact, historically the Medieval blockades often intentionally blockaded the civilians in as well as everything else out, precisely to increase the consumption of necessities, impel tragedy, and compel a faster surrender. Michael Walzer's famous book on just war theory, Just and Unjust Wars, condemns siege warfare unless civilians are provided free passage.
Of course, it is the Cubans who forbid their 'citizens' free passage as much as anyone else. War is often a cruel business: perhaps the best thing is sometimes to end it as quickly as possible. If this embargo finally brings the Communist government to an end, it will doubtless prevent more suffering than it causes over time.
That would be an interesting approach, to blockade a place and offer its civilians safe passage out. That is where Game Theory versus merely "gaming out a problem" would be valuable. We could all imagine a first pass at what the government under siege might do, what the citizens might do, and what the potential receiving countries might do in response. But second-level responses would involve some thought, some contingencies. Trump could turn some purple districts red quickly, which would aid in acceptance by conservatives. But what would happen next?
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