The collapse of Cuba’s power grid after weeks of intensified U.S. oil restrictions is not an accident of fate. It is the predictable result of a deliberate policy choice in Washington. When a country’s energy supply is squeezed long enough, power plants stop, lights go out, hospitals struggle, and ordinary people pay the price. That is exactly what is now unfolding in Cuba

17 March 2026, 10:04

Let us be clear about one thing: Cuba did not threaten the United States. There were no missiles pointed at Florida, no hostile fleets gathering offshore, no military confrontation demanding an emergency response. What there was instead is a political system that the White House dislikes. And apparently, in the view of the current administration under Donald Trump, that is sufficient reason to tighten the screws until the country’s energy infrastructure collapses.

Sanctions are often described in antiseptic language—“pressure,” “leverage,” “policy tools.” But when those sanctions cut off oil to an island nation, the consequences are anything but abstract. Blackouts do not punish a government alone. They punish families, hospitals, workers, and children doing homework by candlelight.

Whatever one thinks about the government in Cuba or about socialism more broadly, there should be a basic principle in international life: powerful nations do not deliberately push civilian populations toward humanitarian crisis simply because they dislike another country’s political system.

Sovereignty means something—or it means nothing at all.

P.S. On Monday, speaking during an executive order signing at the White House, Trump said he thinks he will have the “honor” of “taking Cuba”.

“Whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office with Vice President JD Vance standing behind him. “They’re a very weakened nation right now.”

What an outrageous example of gangsterism!

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