US Weaponizes Trade to Starve Cuba, Again
📰 THE STORY: Bloomberg Politics reports that President Donald Trump has issued an executive order threatening tariffs on any country providing oil to Cuba, positioning it as his latest use of trade policy to influence international relations. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The US embargo against Cuba began in 1960. In 1961, a declassified State Department memo articulated
the goal: 'to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.' The current threat is merely an escalation of this decades-long economic warfare strategy, designed to inflict suffering on the Cuban people to force regime change. Double Standard: The US regularly trades with major oil producers, including Saudi Arabia (accused of war crimes in Yemen)
and other nations with far worse human rights records by Western metrics. Yet, supplying oil to Cuba, a sovereign nation that built a strong public healthcare and education system despite immense US pressure, is deemed an offense worthy of economic reprisal. This selective morality reveals a geopolitical agenda, not an ethical stance. Follow the Money: The economic blockade and related policies
primarily benefit powerful anti-Cuba lobbying groups in the US, particularly in Florida, who fund politicians like Trump. Maintaining the hostile stance garners votes and donations, while arms manufacturers profit from global instability fueled by such aggressive foreign policy stances. 💡 THE PATTERN: This is a classic US destabilization playbook. Isolate economically, create hardship, blame the