Could another country step up and rescue and repair Puerto Rico?

[hexola]

Why not?

Couldn't another country lend aid and investment...?

And then - basically just make it theirs?

China? Russia? Anyone up to it?

[world wide wally]

1. We just may find out

I would look for Cuba personally

[Chasstev365]

2. This is right up Putin's alley to make the USA look terrible internationally.

[Girard442]

3. I wondered about that too.

My gut feeling is that Trump would see that as a violation of U.S. territoriality and actually put up a blockade -- especially if Cubans were involved.

[0rganism]

8. imagine Cuba smuggling doctors & medicine into PR

bizarro world keepin' me guessing

[HipChick]

4. China has already heavily invested in building up the Carribean...

but this is US Territory...

[WinkyDink]

5. Could another country send aid to, say, Nebraska, WITHOUT US PERMISSION? Think it through, FGS.

[Girard442]

10. Point taken, but pragmatically, the Cubans could just show up in Puerto Rico.

Couldn't do that in Nebraska without flying over a lot of other states. The optics of Cuban rescuers bringing sorely needed food, water, and medical supplies being driven away at gunpoint by American soldiers would be...interesting.

[DBoon]

6. I would be very pleased to see Cuba do so

Not that I expect it, but that would certainly piss off Trump and the entire Republican party

[msongs]

7. cuba nt

[lpbk2713]

9. PR would make Kim Jong-un's ICBMs a lot closer to prime targets.

That would be one hell of an irony if he could get his foot in the door.

[procon]

11. Puerto Rico could probably receive aid, but with the Jones Act,

its unlikely to be massive cargo ships, and planes are expensive. They already have foreign investors who were running Romney-style scams to skim off profits and load Puerto Rican companies down with debts that they cannot repay.

There are plenty of current examples of how that type on annexation leads to war. Puerto Rico has made several efforts to become an independent nation, free from draconian US colonial rule, while others want to achieve full statehood. Puerto Rico isn't a sovereign nation, it remains a US territory ans it belongs to us, so a foreign nation can't just show up and "make it theirs".

[Patterson]

12. The Jones Act will put the kibosh on it.