Trump and Rubio are playing ‘the art of the squeal’ in Cuba
Washington is squeezing fuel imports, pressuring partners, and hinting at back-channel terms.
Commentators keep treating President Trump’s moves against Venezuela and Iran as random, emotional, or “impulsive.” They aren’t. They read like strategic actions aimed at the real peer adversary — China — which now finds itself short roughly 20% of a key commodity that powers everything from industrial output to military operations: oil.
Orange Man Bad managed to hit another long-term communist adversary at the same time: Cuba.
Trump isn’t sending Marines to Havana. He’s squeezing the regime into an economic takeover.
After the Maduro snatch-and-bag operation — and after Washington threatened heavy tariffs on Mexico if it kept shipping petroleum products to Cuba — Havana’s fuel supply has reportedly fallen to roughly 35% of its monthly needs.
In 2025, Cuba imported about 13.7 million barrels of oil — roughly 112,000 barrels per day of crude and refined petroleum products — supplied primarily by Venezuela (about 61% of imports) and Mexico (about 25%), with Russia and Algeria covering most of the rest.
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