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President Donald Trump delivered a blunt ultimatum over the weekend, announcing there would be “no more oil or money going to Cuba — ZERO,” and urging Havana to “make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” The president’s message was clear: the United States will use economic leverage to end the regime’s freeloading on Venezuelan resources and force a reckoning in the hemisphere.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel answered with familiar defiance, insisting Cuba is “free, independent and sovereign” and vowing to defend the island “to the last drop of blood.” His post is the same old communist bravado — loud words to mask a regime that survives on subsidies and repression while its people suffer.
The context matters: U.S. operations against Nicolás Maduro have severed the flow of Venezuelan oil that once supplied roughly half of Cuba’s energy needs, leaving Havana economically exposed and politically vulnerable. With Caracas cut off and a U.S.-led plan to oversee Venezuelan oil revenues on the table, the Castro-Maduro axis has lost its safety net and now faces real pressure.
Former NSC chief of staff Alex Gray called it what it is on Fox: a regime “could be on its last legs” and Washington has leverage it should use. Gray’s assessment is the voice of seasoned national security professionals who understand that decisive pressure, paired with smart diplomacy, can accelerate the fall of regimes that abuse their people and export chaos.
Patriots should applaud a president who finally treats hostile communist regimes like the threats they are rather than indulging them with soft-handed engagement. This is America First in practice: protect U.S. interests, deny resources to tyrants, and create real incentives for change instead of hollow words and moral equivalence. No more appeasement, no more business-as-usual with dictators whose only export is misery.
That said, conservatives must also demand a responsible plan for what comes next — humanitarian corridors, targeted help for Cuban citizens, and robust border security to manage any migration flows. The regime’s collapse would be a victory for liberty, but it must be handled so that American communities and Cuban families are protected as the island transitions away from tyranny.
Washington’s move throws the global left into a panic because it exposes the limits of rotten revolutionary governments and the power of firm American leadership. Donald Trump is applying pressure where past administrations failed, and patriots should back every tool that brings freedom to Cuba and keeps American interests safe while the tyrants sputter and rage.
