RUSSIA AFFIRMS OIL & GAS SUPPORT FOR CUBA DESPITE TRUMP’S CONTINUED EMBARGO
- Michael Thervil
- 9 hours ago
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Written by Michael Thervil
[Russia Cuba oil gas Trump embargo] Reaffirming Russia support for the heavily embargoed island nation of Cuba, President Putin stated to the Press:
“We have always supported Cuba in it’s fight for independence and for the right to develop in accordance with it’s own path. We have always supported the Cuban people.”
Condemning the actions of the Trump Administration, Russia has vowed to not only continue providing support to Cuba to counter the American led embargo, but Russia has also vowed to ship oil and gas to Cuba to counter the manufactured oil and gas crisis due to American’s embargo. Cuba, an island nation with an estimated 11 million citizens has been dealing with a hyper-struggling economy since 1958 which started off as an arms embargo. Soon after that Cuba agriculture and energy sectors were also targeted in 1960. Cuba was again targeted by the Americans with the application of a total trade embargo and that embargo stayed in place ever since.
The 60 plus yearlong embargo has essentially frozen Cuba in time and although the country of Cuba has endured the Americans embargo, Cubans have had to face unstable and crumbling power grids which would result in rolling blackouts, as well as severe food and medical shortages, and perpetual issues within their logistics and transportation sector. All of this and more has forced many Cubans to migrate out of the country. Now with the Americans essentially “leveling” the Cuban economy by forcing Cuban and the Cuban economy to brink of collapse by further targeting their energy, oil, and gas sectors, it has resulted in a mega-reduction of 90% of their ability to generate energy, oil, and gas; which was the Cuban government's life line to sustain itself operationally and for it’s citizens.
Backing Russia's support for Cuba who is facing socio-economic strangulation by the Americans is China who has vowed to assist with Cuba's ability to maintain it’s “national sovereignty and security.” Making matters worse for both the government of Cuba and it’s citizens, President Trump declared a national emergency when it came to diplomatic relations with Cuba due to Cuba’s alleged alignment with “hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors”. President Trump justified both his actions and his accusation of Cuba harboring opposition to American interests by saying that economic pressure will force the Cuban government to the negotiating table. President Trump was quoted saying “come to us and want to make a deal”.
Many geopolitical analysts are not only skeptical of President Trumps perspective, but they are and have been critical of the actions of the Trump Administration and all other presidential administrations since American president John F. Kennedy for their handling and inability to change the diplomatic trajectory of American-Cuban relations. Now that Russia, China, and the possibility of other BRICS and CRINK nations coming into play for the betterment of the Cuban government, the American government finds itself successfully countered by the emergence of the new multipolar world.
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