Here is a story that proves exactly what I have been saying for years. The people running the show are not just stupid; they are petty. In the latest chapter of deteriorating **US-Cuba relations**, Washington is acting like a mean high school clique with nuclear codes and an unlimited bullying budget. The latest development? The **Trump administration** has decided the best use of its time is to meticulously track individual ships carrying oil to an island that is already falling apart. They call this **foreign policy**. I call it sad.

Let’s look at the mechanics of what is actually happening with this **new US blockade**. We aren’t just blocking trade in a general sense anymore; that was the old, boring way. Now, we are analyzing satellite maps, pinpointing specific boats, and threatening everyone involved so that **Cuba** can’t get fuel. It is a blockade in everything but name. The goal is simple: strangle the economy until it stops breathing. And for what? To prove a point? To win a few votes in Florida? It is pathetic.

Think about the mindset here. You have the most powerful country in the history of the world, armed with aircraft carriers and drones. And who do we pick a fight with? A tiny island neighbor that hasn’t been a real threat since black-and-white TV was a new invention. It’s like a heavyweight boxer walking into a kindergarten and punching a toddler. It doesn’t make you look strong. It makes you look like an insecure jerk with nothing better to do than enforce cruel **economic sanctions**.

The logic—if you can call it that—is that if we make the Cuban people miserable enough, they will rise up and overthrow their government. That is the same dumb idea we have been using for sixty years. Sixty years! It has never worked. Not once. Fidel Castro died of old age while we were waiting for our brilliant plan to work. Einstein said doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity. Well, welcome to Washington D.C., the insanity capital of the world.

This isn't about freedom. Don't let them tell you that. If the United States cared about freedom, we wouldn't be best friends with half the dictators we send money to every year. This is about spite. The Right does it because they need to look tough for their base. They scream about socialism while handing out corporate bailouts to their friends. They treat Cuba like a punching bag because the bag doesn't punch back. It is cheap theater. It is politics for people who can't read a map.

And don't think I'm letting the other side off the hook. The Left and the establishment types wring their hands and say, 'Oh, this is terrible.' But mostly, the Democrats just watch it happen. They are too scared to look 'soft' on communism, so they let the bullying continue. They are the kids in the schoolyard who watch the bully beat someone up and just look at their shoes so they don't get hit next.

The real tragedy of this **Havana energy crisis** isn't the politics. It's the regular people. When you stop oil ships, you aren't hurting the guys in the government palaces. Those guys always eat. They have generators. The people who get hurt are the taxi drivers, the farmers, and the grandmothers trying to cook dinner. The blockade creates shortages of food and medicine. We create the hunger and then blame the Cuban government for the empty plates. It is a sick game.

This new analysis of ship movements shows just how obsessive we have become. We are hunting down fuel tankers like they are carrying plague rats. It creates a 'black list' that scares off shipping companies. Nobody wants to deal with the headache of Uncle Sam yelling at them, so they stay away. Cuba gets isolated. The lights go out in Havana. And somewhere in an air-conditioned office in Washington, a bureaucrat puts a checkmark on a piece of paper and feels like a hero.

It is all just noise. We are starving a neighbor to settle a score that nobody remembers the origin of. It proves that our **foreign policy** is broken. We don't have ideas; we just have hammers, and everything looks like a nail. So, congratulations to the geniuses in charge. You managed to make life worse for poor people on an island. You must be very proud. The rest of the world is watching, and they aren't impressed. They just think we are cruel. And for once, they are right.

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### References & Fact-Check * **Original Report**: [A New U.S. Blockade Is Strangling Cuba](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/americas/cuba-oil-blockade-trump.html) – *The New York Times* (February 20, 2026). * **Core Topic**: Analysis of tightened US sanctions focusing on the tracking and blocking of oil shipments to Cuba. * **Key Context**: This article interprets the humanitarian and geopolitical impact of the Trump administration's foreign policy regarding the Caribbean trade blockade.