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Cuba: Biggest Crisis Since The Revolution (Fixing Substack's Podcast Listing Error Bug Regular Users Ignore Duplicate)

February 7, 2026·54 min·5 clips
Trump bypassed demands for democracy in Venezuela, instead negotiating directly for oil and prisoner releases.
The hosts discuss Cuba's imminent economic collapse due to a severe oil shortage, exacerbated by severed ties with Venezuela and Mexico. They analyze Trump's pragmatic geopolitical strategies, Cuba's military and demographic challenges, and its historical influence on US leftist groups, framing it as a critical but underreported crisis.

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A fast, combative geopolitical argument about collapse, dependency, and the politics around both.

The episode treats Cuba's fuel crisis as a wider case study in state failure, dependency, and how breakdown can start as arithmetic long before it shows up as news. It moves quickly from tanker routes to Venezuela, Mexico, and U.S.

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Want a Cuba-collapse rant that pivots from oil shortages to voter-fraud talk?

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