{"id":154822,"date":"2026-02-21T06:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154822"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:21:20","slug":"trump-boasts-about-ramped-up-embargo-on-cuba-theres-no-oil-no-money-no-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/02\/21\/trump-boasts-about-ramped-up-embargo-on-cuba-theres-no-oil-no-money-no-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Boasts About Ramped Up Embargo on Cuba: \u2018There\u2019s No Oil, No Money, No Anything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Dave DeCamp<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Just like Sri Lanka during the NED-funded Aragalaya for Regime Change and staged Bankruptcy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to reporters on Monday night, President Trump boasted of his ramped-up embargo on Cuba, which has involved cutting off Venezuelan oil shipments and pressuring Mexico to end its oil exports, causing major fuel shortages in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuba is right now a failed nation, and they don\u2019t even have jet fuel for airplanes to take off, clogging up their runway,\u201d he said during a flight on Air Force One.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka faced a fuel embargo to the island of Cuba in 2022, during the USAID, NED and Soros funded Aragalaya protests for Regime Change in order to declare South Asia\u2019s wealthiest country bankrupt\u2019 and stage a first ever Sovereign Default to enable the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to upend national economic sovereignty. That was during Biden\u2019s time in the White House. There is no difference between the Democrat and Republican parties in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said his administration was talking with the Cuban government, though, according to a report from Drop Site News<\/em><\/a>, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is blocking those talks while telling the president they are happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A source in the administration told Drop Site<\/em> that the idea is for Rubio to be able to say in a few months that diplomacy with the Cuban government is futile and push for the US to pursue regime change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re talking to Cuba right now, we have Marco Rubio talking to Cuba right now,\u201d Trump said on Monday night. But they should absolutely make a deal because it\u2019s really a humanitarian threat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if diplomatic talks were taking place, it\u2019s unclear what sort of agreement the US wants, as Trump has not spelled out his demands of Havana. The president told reporters that as long as a deal isn\u2019t reached, the embargo will continue. In the meantime, there\u2019s an embargo. There\u2019s no oil, there\u2019s no money, there\u2019s no anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to Trump\u2019s comments, a Cuban official pointed out that US officials typically deny the humanitarian damage that US sanctions cause. It is frequent for US officials and diplomats to claim that US aggression is not responsible for difficulties in Cuba, It seems they don\u2019t listen to their President, including the chief diplomat in Havana,\u201d Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos F. de Cossio wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump was asked if he would consider carrying out an operation in Cuba similar to the attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the US kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro. I don\u2019t want to answer that. Why would I answer that if I was? It wouldn\u2019t be a very tough operation, as you can figure, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019ll be necessary,\u201d he said.
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by\u00a0Dave DeCamp Just like Sri Lanka during the NED-funded Aragalaya for Regime Change and staged Bankruptcy Speaking to reporters on Monday night, President Trump boasted of his ramped-up embargo on Cuba, which has involved cutting off Venezuelan oil shipments and pressuring Mexico to end its oil exports, causing major fuel shortages in the country. Cuba […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154826,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154822\/revisions\/154826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}