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Trump declares national emergency over ‘Cuba threat’

Trump declares national emergency over Cuba

The US president has dramatically escalated pressure on the government in Havana and its trade partners.

US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency and threatened to impose steep tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, dramatically escalating pressure on Havana after the US military operation in Venezuela already cut the island nation off from its most crucial energy source.

After abducting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month, the US has set its sights on Cuba, which Trump claims is “ready to fall” next. In an executive order signed on Thursday, Trump branded Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security.

“The United States has zero tolerance for the depredations of the communist Cuban regime,” the order states. “I find that the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba directly threaten the safety, national security, and foreign policy of the United States.”

The order establishes a mechanism to impose severe additional tariffs on imports from any nation caught directly or indirectly selling or providing oil to Havana. It grants broad authority to the secretaries of state and commerce to identify violators and recommend tariff levels to the president.



The measure formalizes and intensifies a de facto energy blockade that has been tightening for weeks. The US military operation that captured Maduro earlier this month cut off Cuba’s primary source of oil.

Subsequent pressure on Mexico, Havana’s last remaining supplier, has left the island facing dire shortages.

Trump predicted on Tuesday that the Cuban government would be “failing pretty soon,” boasting that the cutoff of Venezuelan oil and revenue has pushed Havana to the brink.

According to data firm Kpler, Cuba has just 15 to 20 days of oil reserves remaining. The country is already enduring daily blackouts, and analysts warn of economic collapse and a humanitarian crisis without rapid resupply.

The White House, in a fact sheet, framed the emergency declaration as a necessary response to malign activity, accusing Cuba of hosting “Russia’s largest overseas signals intelligence facility” and providing a “safe environment” for terrorist groups. It also accused Havana of spreading “communist” influence in the Western Hemisphere.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has remained defiant, stating earlier this week that “the harshness of these times and the brutality of the threats against Cuba will not hold us back.”

Cuba has been under a US trade embargo since the 1960s, but has not faced the prospect of a naval blockade since 1962, when then-President John F. Kennedy placed it under “quarantine” for 13 days to prevent the transfer of Soviet missiles to the Cuban military.

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  1. This creature is no different to any of the other globalists, that’s slithered into the White house, over the last few decades. It looks too, like the US and Israel have never been so unpopular, on the world stage. People around the world hate them. Not hard to see why.

  2. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis all over again, except-
    THIS TIME THE MISSILES WILL ACTUALLY FLY…TOWARDS THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
    Don’t think that this can’t happen, as intel reports indicate that Oreshniks arrived in Cuba seven weeks ago with a variety of warheads.
    Venezuela was unwinnable due to the U.S.-owned oil companies being unable to pump and maintain the oil wells due to guerilla activities that would have been aimed at the same…and then there’s the jungle itself, much, much worse that Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia, or the Congo and Amazan regions that are impossible to occupy with a standard military force & regime.
    Now the orange-haired narcissistic spoilt monster is heading for Cuba & Iran.
    Proxy wars in behalf of Israel, who pays him well and insures that his interests rates at Trump International Realty never goes above a certain percent, lest the orange-haired one end-up bankrupt.
    Israel is running the U.S., and has been since 1913 w/ the Federal Reserve banking Act that Woodrow Wilson enacted under J3wi$h pressure after being caught having an affair with a teen-aged girl! (Note- he later had a stroke & Mrs. Wilson took over the U.S. Presidency de-facto..)
    Same old shit, different missile…..
    Trump has appointed another J3w into the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. Treasury is alreday under J3wi$h control …
    Can we see the trend here aligning-up with ‘anti-semitism’ laws? CBDC’s, Digital ID’s? Getting de-banked for speaking out against the total takeover of Global J3wish-based Israeli Zionism?https://biographybrief.com/kevin-warsh/
    https://biographybrief.com/kevin-warsh/
    Current Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is a CATHOLIC! This is why Trump is trying to get rid of him ASAP and replace him with an Ivy League Talmudic J3w, so that Noahide Law with Talmudic motivators can run ALL of Western Banking and Government Treasuries.

    Current head of the U.S. Treasury is Scott Bessent, an openly gay man who is another Ivy Leaguer and Secret Society weenie;
    Bessent has participated in Dialog, a secretive, invitation-only social club founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman.[125] He is a member of the Economic Club of New York.[119][126]
    Scott Bessent Personal Life-
    Bessent lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C.[119][120] He previously lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.[121] He is a member of the Huguenot Church,[122] a religious association whose expansion his ancestors supported in 1680.[15] He married John Freeman, a former New York City prosecutor, in 2011. They have two children, born through surrogacy.[16]
    Bessent has had close friendships with King Charles III and Robert Trump. Robert’s ex-wife, Blaine Trump, is the godmother of Bessent’s daughter.[123]
    Early involvement in politics
    In 2000, Bessent hosted a fundraiser for Al Gore at his home in East Hampton, New York.[41] Also in 2000, he donated $1,000 to John McCain’s presidential campaign.[16] In 2007, he donated $2,300 to Barack Obama’s campaign, and in 2013, he donated $25,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. At the time, he was said to be a Democrat who supported liberal causes.[42]
    After Trump was elected president in 2016, Bessent donated $1 million to Trump’s 2017 presidential inaugural committee.[43] In 2023 and 2024, he donated more than $1 million to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.[44] In February 2024, Bessent hosted a fundraiser in Greenville, South Carolina, that raised nearly $7 million for Trump’s campaign.[45] In April, he hosted a Palm Beach, Florida, fundraiser that raised $50 million for the campaign.[46] In July, Bessent was a key economic adviser to Trump.[47]
    Bessent is a product of Zionist Policies, mindsets and dictates.
    https://altcensored.com/watch?v=HJWh9BpPd_4
    Those below probably didn’t go along with the Noahide Law plan for Banking…and were Arkancided.
    https://altcensored.com/watch?v=j3VVQb67j90
    But…I digress….!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v1znPcvBxw

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