Timothy Birdnow

Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio is squeezing the life out of Cuba's Communist government, with an oil embargo that has ground the tropical worker's paradise to a halt.

This oil embargo was greatly enhanced by the capture of Maduro in Venezuela, Cuba's chief supplier of oil. Now Venezuela is exporting no oil to Cuba and power outages of several hours are an almost daily occurrence.

Recently the Cuban government attacked a boat carrying expatriated Cubans (who were likely going there to join in the soon to come revolution) and killed several. These were American citizens by naturalization or birth.

At any rate Rubio's policies are, of course, Trump's policies, but Little Marco knows how to approach this situation in a way Trump would never think of doing. He knows these people; his parents immigrated from there.

At any rate it's hard to make a communist country collapse because of the way they squeeze their citizenry, like an anaconda But in the end economics is a tyrant and if you cannot provide basic services or food you wind up with what happened in Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, or in the Soviet Union. The Soviet rebellion began when peasants stormed a train to steal FOOD. They were starving.

The CIA analyst who predicted the fall of the U.S.S.R. was a man named Herb Myer. He was an American Thinker writer and I spoke with him on the phone a time or two, plus e-mailed with him. He told me he was eating lunch one day with one of the data collectors who casually mentioned "how about that raid on the train" and Herb had heard nothing about this. He immediately realized what it meant "My God! They're collapsing!" and he had to brief the Director of the CIA personally.

The point of this story is that when people are starving they will face guns and bombs and gulags. Better to risk dying than to let yourself die.

Cuba may well get to that point soon.

Nobody will miss the Communists there. And once they are gone another source of infection will be eliminated in a trouble spot.

Posted by: Jisoo Lanu at June 16, 2026 03:26 AM (EMcxW)

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