Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But this crisis may also be accelerating a China-backed clean energy revolution that’s been quietly unfolding in the Caribbean nation.
Cuba has never been an ally with the United States
And to put a finer point on it, the United States only ever considered Cuba either a threat or a resource rather than an ally.
There was that time that the US fought a war with Spain to liberate Cuba from imperialism.
They were allies for some days during that.