This piece exposes what Washington refuses to admit: the crisis in Cuba isn’t an accident of history — it’s the intended outcome of a blockade designed to break a society and then blame it for collapsing. The U.S. is manufacturing the conditions for intervention, leaking dubious “intelligence,” escalating sanctions that UN experts warn could cause “energy starvation,” and now dangling “aid” that conveniently advances its own destabilization strategy.
What’s happening to Cuba mirrors the pattern we’ve seen in Iran, Venezuela, and Gaza: create deprivation, call it a humanitarian crisis, then use that crisis as justification for further aggression. It’s a cycle of cruelty dressed up as policy.
The article makes clear that Cuba poses no threat to the United States. Yet the Trump administration is pushing the country toward a confrontation that would be catastrophic for Cubans and destabilizing for the entire region. When a government is willing to indict a 94‑year‑old former head of state while tightening a blockade that has doubled infant mortality and shut down surgeries for children, it’s not pursuing justice — it’s pursuing collapse.
If Americans want to understand why so much of the world views U.S. foreign policy as predatory, they need only look at Cuba: a small nation punished for refusing to surrender its sovereignty.
The question now is whether the American public will recognize this escalation for what it is — not a response to a threat, but the creation of one.
The US has been lying about and obfuscating about Cuba for just about my entire life. And US media has mostly supported the lies and assisted the obfuscations. Of course the same is true about Israel.
Instead of ending the cruel blockade, Rubio wants Cuba to sell to the US for a cheap 100 million and a deal to worship at the altar of Elon Musk and Starlink.
My government is now a disgrace and an embarrassment. The "Decline of Empire" doesn't mean we will cease to exist, it means we have a little less in order that others have a bit more...
Mr Bone Spurs, who manages to play golf into his 80s, now asks our military to wage illegal wars - called "police actions" - in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba which they should refuse to do. As a U.S. Army veteran, I know it's difficult to refuse orders because generally, we're busy just trying to stay alive and don't have the time or ability to understand global politics.
Mr Mendacious President is looting the Treasury, committing child murders, destroying democracy, adding to inflation and increasing prices while denying everything. He claims it is all good, in fact great.
The "home of the brave" country is just a chicken crap (a dangerous one) who is afraid to recognize the strength of a small Island that has endured decades of an illegal blockade, yet was able to have the best healthcare and the best education - better than the US but our bar is so low, not hard to be better - because we crap our pants when we see communism working.
Cuba got rid of the puppet Batista, then the US started the blockade, and then Cuba moved towards socialism, since the USSR was their only allies. But the US has only arrogance and not substance. How can they be so much better than us under the devilish communism?
We all know capitalism failed. That's what the brave America needs to disprove. By destroying lives
This piece exposes what Washington refuses to admit: the crisis in Cuba isn’t an accident of history — it’s the intended outcome of a blockade designed to break a society and then blame it for collapsing. The U.S. is manufacturing the conditions for intervention, leaking dubious “intelligence,” escalating sanctions that UN experts warn could cause “energy starvation,” and now dangling “aid” that conveniently advances its own destabilization strategy.
What’s happening to Cuba mirrors the pattern we’ve seen in Iran, Venezuela, and Gaza: create deprivation, call it a humanitarian crisis, then use that crisis as justification for further aggression. It’s a cycle of cruelty dressed up as policy.
The article makes clear that Cuba poses no threat to the United States. Yet the Trump administration is pushing the country toward a confrontation that would be catastrophic for Cubans and destabilizing for the entire region. When a government is willing to indict a 94‑year‑old former head of state while tightening a blockade that has doubled infant mortality and shut down surgeries for children, it’s not pursuing justice — it’s pursuing collapse.
If Americans want to understand why so much of the world views U.S. foreign policy as predatory, they need only look at Cuba: a small nation punished for refusing to surrender its sovereignty.
The question now is whether the American public will recognize this escalation for what it is — not a response to a threat, but the creation of one.
American foreign aid is almost always predatory.
The US has been lying about and obfuscating about Cuba for just about my entire life. And US media has mostly supported the lies and assisted the obfuscations. Of course the same is true about Israel.
A cycle of cruelty is the US and Israel.May this cruelty one day be completely contained and destroyed.
Independent Cuban-American here. Thank you for your unbiased reporting. This is very factual and informative.
Instead of ending the cruel blockade, Rubio wants Cuba to sell to the US for a cheap 100 million and a deal to worship at the altar of Elon Musk and Starlink.
So agree with your assessment of the crisis.
My government is now a disgrace and an embarrassment. The "Decline of Empire" doesn't mean we will cease to exist, it means we have a little less in order that others have a bit more...
Mr Bone Spurs, who manages to play golf into his 80s, now asks our military to wage illegal wars - called "police actions" - in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba which they should refuse to do. As a U.S. Army veteran, I know it's difficult to refuse orders because generally, we're busy just trying to stay alive and don't have the time or ability to understand global politics.
Mr Mendacious President is looting the Treasury, committing child murders, destroying democracy, adding to inflation and increasing prices while denying everything. He claims it is all good, in fact great.
What stupidity!
The "home of the brave" country is just a chicken crap (a dangerous one) who is afraid to recognize the strength of a small Island that has endured decades of an illegal blockade, yet was able to have the best healthcare and the best education - better than the US but our bar is so low, not hard to be better - because we crap our pants when we see communism working.
Cuba got rid of the puppet Batista, then the US started the blockade, and then Cuba moved towards socialism, since the USSR was their only allies. But the US has only arrogance and not substance. How can they be so much better than us under the devilish communism?
We all know capitalism failed. That's what the brave America needs to disprove. By destroying lives