If those are the boats in the image, that's really stretching the definition of what an "aid" ship can be.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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Same as the Gaza flotillas. These are pleasure craft and sailboats mostly. The cargo they can transport is minuscule.
These flotillas aren’t about bringing anything more than a symbolic amount of aid. Their main goal is (social) media attention.
Is it surprising if they take a pleasure cruise shortcut after their donation drives? The Gaza flotilla ships were at least twice as big, involved more, and they also looked the part. These look like surfer dude sailboats on vacation.
Even symbolically these don't seem to hold up to scrutiny. I am not a ship connoisseur, but still...
Who cares? Why is it a bad thing that some Mexicans with boats decided to join an aid flotilla? You do know what a flotilla is, right? It's not about the size of one individual craft
Strawman much?
Oh? Then please explain the point of your criticism
Each of those boats can easily stick 5-10 MW of solar panels and ≈ .7 to 1 GJ worth of batteries into their holds for that short of a cruise. That brings two entire towns back online. It's certainly not nothing.
If just these two boats are the only source that China has of getting solar panels and batteries to Cuba, they can get the entire country off of oil dependency in a year or two. I seriously doubt that is the case though.
And did they? I would have gone with refined uranium, that stuff is pretty valuable. I must have missed where they can carry the freight containers worth of solar panels you claim they are.
That's about 2 pallets of solar panels and batteries each, not a shipping container. That's 0.0138 of a standard shipping container. I used to stack them 4 wide, 3 high, and 24 deep when I was a forklift operator. If you are shipping something that is light, and doesn't matter if it overheats, you can do 4×4×26. Maybe more.
Their hold can easily contain an extra 4 pallets.
If those particular boats did or not, I don't know, and that is irrelevant anyway. They definitely shipped some pallets of something, and other boats and ships exist and are providing aid.
They were carrying 2 tons of supply, so Cuba at least got something but that's less than a truck can carry. I don't know of any solar panel technology that could provide "5-10MW" that could be shipped in just 2 tons.
Sumud Flotilla used to have photos of their cargo on their website. It was so embarrassingly little, they took them down.
Of course you don’t have to believe the claims they were empty.
Your first link directs to a 404 and your second links to a Jerusalem Post article. I'm disinclined to believe either link is an authoritative primary source.
Seems very suspiciously like a hasbara plant.
Yes, the first link is a 404 because they deleted the images, as I pointed out at the same time.
Bermuda Triangle shit. That's why they won't say what really happened. /s
LOL. I went to sea camp in the Florida Keys, when I was a kid. It's like Summer Camp but it all revolves around water activities. We were coming back from diving on the reef. It's pretty tiring to spend all day out there so pretty much everyone was sleeping as we headed in. The counselor who was driving the boat, noticing that I was the only one awake, called me over to the console and pointed at the compass. I kid you not, the thing was spinning around. I looked at her and asked. "Are we going to disappear now?"
And we were never seen again.
Nice that you can still access the Lemmy API regardless. I didn’t know they had WiFi in the Bermuda hellscape.
Don't tell Hegseth. He'll think they're party balloon fishermen and double strike them out of existence.
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I didn't know that was a thing. I'm packing already!
