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Hey Donald, make Havana great again!

Think of the beauty pageants!

7 min readMar 12, 2025

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Let’s face it Donald, Gaza is so far away.

I will admit that Gaza has some great beachfront property. With temperatures always 65 to 89°F (18 to 32°C), beach lovers have been flocking there since the Bronze Age. King Tut moored his superyacht there 3500 years ago. But the look is bad for the United States, and especially for a cadre of billionaire broligarchs, coming in on the tail end of a genocide with a lawsuit now before the ICC to arrest and jail a former US President, his Secretary of State, and his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Ethnic cleansing is never a good look.

But what’s wrong with Cuba? It is a heck of a lot nicer than Greenland and the beaches are sandy, with no calving icebergs to spill the margaritas on the poolside dining tables on the afterdeck.

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Imagine strolling down the Malecon at sunset, tango-ing in the street in Old Habana, sunning on the white Mayabeque beaches, or taking a gourmet coffee tour to the mountains. The art is great, the music is amazing, the…

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Albert Bates
Albert Bates

Written by Albert Bates

Emergency Planetary Technician and Climate Science Wonk — using naturopathic remedies to recover the Holocene without geoengineering or ponzinomics.

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