US 'Humanitarian' Blockade Now Threatens Cuba's Fuel
NPR notes Cuba is 'on edge' because US moves against Venezuela threaten its fuel supply, deepening isolation. This framing masterfully sidesteps the fact that the US has systematically isolated and blockaded Cuba for over six decades, long before Venezuela became a primary fuel source. It's a classic example of blaming the victim for adapting to an engineered crisis, then punishing the adaptation.
Havana's reliance on Caracas for oil started because decades of American sanctions, tightened by every administration from Eisenhower to Trump to Biden, choked off other avenues, forcing Cuba into this corner. One might wonder if the 'risk' of deeper isolation is actually the desired outcome, a feature, not a bug, of a policy designed to inflict maximum economic pain using 'humanitarian' concerns
as window dressing. How many times does the US get to 'warn' about a crisis it actively creates before it’s called a siege?