Some good news from Cuba.

If the EU wants to do something useful in ‘foreign policy’ it should start strongly promoting this sort of latent networked democracy and so promote and prepare for Cuban Regime Change. That would have two results. It would help end the current misery there faster. And it woiuld show that we are on the side of the people, not the regime.

I suspect that nothing will be done – too many EU member states seem to think that their market niche lies in making excuses for Cuban-style socialism. Thus the EU is investing in a dying and sure to be discredited past, not a vibrant optimistic Cuban future.

This means that when the regime does collapse an historic opportunity to export to that region the noble values and practices of the EU’s ‘highly competitive social market economy’ will be lost, as Cubans surge towards brash American-style consumerism, free at last to enjoy the benefits of globalisation.

Much like the Vietnamese, in fact. Not that everybody is happy with that.