Let me see?
We have been treated to the standard Trump beats up a country to try to get a deal’ on what HE wants?
The country says ‘No Deal’…..
Donald THEN says essentially ?
‘Ok I’ll give until tomorrow?’
And we’re talking about Putin’s Russian Cuba, eh?
Wouldn’t want Hegseth to piss off the Russian leader DIRECTLY?
In A place 90 miles from the tip of Florida?
Oh , wait?
The US Embassy IN Cuba ain’t getting any oil/gas either?
I forgot?
Russian oil isn’t sanctioned anymore due to Trump’s Iran War….
Cept Cuba WAS….
With a Russian tanker loaded with crude oil nearing Cuba, President Donald Trump said late Sunday he would not enforce his effective blockade against fuel supplies to the island.
“If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem, whether it’s Russia … and if other countries want to do it,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home
“It’s not going to have an impact,” Trump said. “Cuba’s finished … whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”
The approach of the Russian-owned tanker Anatoly Kolodkin over the weekend set up a test of the Trump administration’s will to block fuel for Cuba — and how far the Kremlin is willing to go to help its longtime ally 90 miles from U.S. territory.
The vessel departed March 8 from Primorsk, Russia, carrying nearly 730,000 barrels of crude oil, according to TankerTrackers.com, an independent oil-tracking firm that measures how high a vessel is above sea level to determine its load. Britain’s Royal Navy tracked the ship and its Russian naval escort through the English Channel. Then the escort veered off, and the vessel continued its journey solo.
By late Sunday, it was about 20 miles off the Cuban coast, according to ship tracking data. It was expected to reach the Matanzas oil storage facility early Tuesday, according to the global intelligence company Kpler….
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Trump had already stopped oil exports from Venezuela, long Cuba’s main supplier, following the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in January. The sanctions threat led Mexico and others from sending planned deliveries. Amid shortages of diesel and gasoline, Cuba has suffered island-wide blackouts and the closures of schools and hospitals.
The U.S. Embassy in Havana has also been affected. Employees have gathered in group houses and are working remotely, and nonessential personnel could soon be sent home….
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The U.S. Treasury Department, looking to ease the surge in energy prices caused by the war in Iran, temporarily lifted sanctions this month on countries that purchased Russian oil then already at sea. But Treasury later issued new guidance that specifically barred Cuba from receiving Russian oil…
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Washington and Havana have acknowledged they have begun a process of bilateral negotiations, but there’s little indication the talks have expanded beyond agenda-setting, according to officials in both countries….
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