Trump's 'Cuba Threat': A Familiar Script for Manufactured Crises
📰 THE STORY: Donald Trump has declared a national emergency, threatening severe tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, framing the trade as a 'threat' to US national security. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The US has imposed an economic embargo on Cuba since 1960, formally tightened by President Kennedy in 1962, following Cuba's nationalization of US-owned property.
This 'emergency' is just the latest escalation in over six decades of continuous US economic warfare aimed at regime change, costing the Cuban economy an estimated $144.4 billion by 2020, according to Cuban government figures. Double Standard: The media widely reports this as a necessary measure against a 'dictatorship,' yet the same outlets remain largely silent on the US's vast oil trade with
actual human rights abusers and authoritarian regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, which executes dissidents and wages a genocidal war in Yemen. There's no 'national emergency' for US oil imports enabling those atrocities. Follow the Money: The persistent anti-Cuba stance is heavily influenced by powerful, well-funded lobbying groups, particularly the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), which has
historically pushed for hardline policies. Their campaign contributions and lobbying efforts ensure that US policy remains hostile, regardless of shifting global priorities or the expressed will of the international community, which has overwhelmingly condemned the embargo at the UN General Assembly for 31 consecutive years. 💡 THE PATTERN: This declaration fits neatly into the US imperial