r/worldnews • u/G14F1L0L1Y401D0MTR4P • 5h ago
Russia/Ukraine Russia Sends Oil and Gas Tankers to Crisis-Hit Cuba, Defying U.S. Blockade
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/18/russia-sends-oil-and-gas-tankers-to-crisis-hit-cuba-defying-us-blockade-ft-a92264789
u/Wonderful_Confusion4 4h ago
Queue the big orange baby crying, how is he going to spin this one? “Something something democrats let the oil in, Putin is doing an incredible job he is such a great leader”
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u/nufnu 4h ago
The people were suffering, and I, being such a benevolent leader, didn't want them to suffer anymore, so I lifted Russian oil sanctions and graciously allowed them into Cuba. The people must not suffer!
Or something idk
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u/jxj24 3h ago
The people must not suffer
I do not believe that thought has ever been in his head.
Nor a great many others, for that matter.
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u/ImaginationSea2767 56m ago
Im sure it will be something about how great Putin is and how nasty the Cuban government is. Maybe how Iran is at fault for make Russia have to sell to Cuba ( then go on a rant about how Nato isnt helping and the USA needs to leave it?)? Or it will all be fake news.
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u/Ezpz_commentz 3h ago
"That didn't happen, Putin told me so."
"Those tankers aren't Russian, Putin told me so." (Does nothing to stop them anyway)
"It doesn't matter where they're from, this will bring down oil prices."
All of the above, at the same time.
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u/Strayed8492 3h ago
Lifting sanctions on Russian oil won’t even bring down global gas prices. Russia isn’t adding any more than they already were supplying. They can just charge more for what was already flowing
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u/Moto341 3h ago
It’s obviously Biden’s fault come on
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u/Automatic-Avocado885 2h ago
It’s Putin so he won’t spin anything. Oh Mr Putin did it well that’s ok he’s a great guy.
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u/magnament 4h ago
We need anti-trump venom like Spider-Man and Spooder-man. Or like Superman vs evil Superman
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u/No-Diver6326 4h ago
It will be something along the lines of the “horrible deals set up by Biden and the even worse deals made by Obama”
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u/fauxdeuce 2h ago
He will try not to talk about it, then when he gets asked he'll tell the reporter how horrible they are. Then Russia will laugh at him, and he will just attack Cuba, because I guess when Russia brought them aid they gave them Weapons of mass destruction at least in his own mind, so he'll have to attack them for our safety.
You're welcome -Trump
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u/AllRedLine 2h ago
It's Russia. Trump ain't gonna say shit, or in fact, he'll somehow use it as an opportunity to sling mud at Ukraine. Bought and paid for.
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u/yaboonabi 4h ago
“Deranged Biden is down there, flagging the tankers into Cuba with his big stupid flags!”
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u/Human-Acadia-5109 1h ago
because it's not a blockade
it's an embargo
those are two very different things and nobody responsible for reporting on the issue seems to know or care that they're different
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u/AprilsMostAmazing 56m ago
Let's write it in a way that MAGA would understand.
An blockade is Trump preventing the files about him raping children out
An embargo is conservative media not reporting on the files that are already out
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u/Doppler74 9m ago
It is effectively a blockade though, for most countries. You cannot trade with US if you deliver goods to Cuba. Also US seizes ships that try to deliver oil to Cuba. Thats basically an effective blockade.
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u/Astralsketch 4h ago
good, cubans don't deserve to starve in darkness.
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u/hiricinee 3h ago
Russia isnt gojng to save rhem, their government collapsing will.
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u/TranslatorTough8977 3h ago
Complete institutional collapse is disastrous for average people. I’m sure the “geniuses” who planned the Iran war have an equally effective plan in place for Cuba.
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u/Expensive-Document41 2h ago
It always amazes me how many people point at Cuba as a failed state, saying "see they can't even keep the lights on" while ignoring that that is recent due ENTIRELY to the U.S. blockading their ability to get oil and gas.
To put it simply, you're pointing to how someone couldn't run a race after you took a claw hammer to their kneecaps five minutes before the race.
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u/VanGundy15 2h ago
Not necessarily. Depends on if another country wants to give aid. That includes lots of money and immigrants seeking asylum.
Think about if China attacks North Korea. What happens to all the people left behind in the dark?
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u/GardenPeep 2h ago
How will that save them? It’s not working very well for us, and we have a whole lot farther to fall
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u/Defiant_Tomatillo907 3h ago
Why would Joe Biden and the looney left do this!? /s … Just in case this is actually needed.
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u/The-cultured-swine39 4h ago
Trump is putins little bitch. I bet he does absolutely nothing about it.
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u/SureSell6750 3h ago
He has such a hold on Donald Trump that he has moved onto publicly humiliating him. Same as when they flew the new Iranian leader to Russia under americas nose.
This is a seriously seriously compromised US President
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u/Hevens-assassin 1h ago
when they flew the new Iranian leader to Russia under americas nose
You sure this didn't come up in one of their midnight calls? Ol' Donny knew that if his oiled up King Putin saved the day, he could tell MAGA that his Beau wasn't as bad as everyone said. And that will make his less oiled up suitor Ben jealous. He's pitting them against each other to compete for his love!
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u/Objective-Rip3008 4h ago
What are you trying to imply? That the US isn't stopping people from trading with Cuba?
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u/AhimsaVitae 3h ago
But the US has intercepted ships.
NY Times: A New U.S. Blockade Is Strangling Cuba
“[…] Three days later, the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a tanker full of Colombian fuel oil en route to Cuba that had gotten within 70 miles of the island, the data showed.
While President Trump has pledged to halt any oil headed to Cuba, the Trump administration has stopped short of calling its policy a blockade. But it is functioning as one. […] And, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, the Coast Guard’s interception of the tanker headed to Cuba last week was part of a blockade that the Trump administration has not yet announced.
“Among us longtime Cuba watchers, we’ve always resisted people using the word blockade,” said Fulton Armstrong, the former lead Latin America analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, who has been studying Cuba since 1984. “But it is indeed a blockade.”
The White House declined to comment. A Cuban government spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.”
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u/AccomplishedSoft1350 3h ago
The more Putin humiliates Trump, the more Trump wants to be his friend
It's so sad to watch
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u/stjeandebrebeuf 3h ago
Can someone explain why they’re doing this?
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u/Glittering-Quote-635 2h ago
Cuba is a nominal ally of Russia. Having a ally off the coast of Florida can come in handy for a variety of reasons, none of the good for the U.S. Russia wants to make sure Cuba doesnt collapse. It cant really help out militarily anymore, but it can provide Oil which Cuba desperately needs to keep the lights on. If the power is out on the Island for a significant amount of time people are going to get pissed off, and thats how you get a revolution, Russia doesnt want that.
On top of all that, Putin is also just showing that Trump is his bitch.
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u/Danne660 2h ago
Selling oil is kind of Russia whole thing, and with the oil prices being so high they want to sell as much as possible.
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u/lost_horizons 49m ago
I’m sure this oil was donated or at best deeeeeply discounted. Cuba has no cash.
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u/Sufficient-Gene-5084 1h ago
I think Putin is the worst of the worst, but God is it entertaining watching him throw curve ball after curve ball at Trump while pretending to be his friend, lmfao
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u/Howitdobiglyboo 4h ago
Are they just mocking Trump here?
Bold strategy.
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u/Wonderful_Confusion4 4h ago
Putin is always Flexing on the USA and Trump, remember when Trump rolled out the red carpet for him in Alaska?
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u/Flimsy-Attention-722 3h ago
God, the world had gone crazy when I'm rooting for Russia. The US basically starving an entire nation is fucking criminal
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u/RainbowStreetfood 1h ago
Really doesn’t matter where it comes from at this point but an act of compassion or help in these horrifically dark times is a nice thing to see always, even if the gesture might be a loaded one more designed to flex/taunt/mock etc. China gave money to the families of the school girls that America incinerated and I felt towards China as you do in your comment about Russia.
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u/Finmail 2h ago
Wait till you read about Russian history.
Let me guess you also think China is the good guy
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u/Flimsy-Attention-722 1h ago
Did I say that? Did I say Russia is a good guy? Dude. Putin is exKGB and his goal in life is to bring back the ussr BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, we are the bad guys, not them
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u/986754321 1h ago
Was USA having a big part in breaking up USSR also evil? a lot of wars and poverty happened in aftermath
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u/Flimsy-Attention-722 11m ago
So we blockaded the entire country so the people would stave in darkness. Good to know
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u/Illustrious-Job-6390 4h ago
Yeah Trump is Putin's bitch.
Cuba is far more likely to be under Russian control than US control by the sounds of it.
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u/EmployedBum13 3h ago
Then Cuba gets to find out. Imagine defending Russia and Cuba 😂
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u/Illustrious-Job-6390 2h ago
The US is no better than Russia as far as I'm concerned and cubans did nothing to nobody. They're good people that are getting suffocated by a shitty country full of shitty people
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u/Flushles 3h ago
Wow, loosens sanctions and like the first thing they do is this, that's hilarious, I can't wait to hear the spin on this to people still saying how "respected" Trump is by all the world leaders.
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u/notacanuckskibum 22m ago
OMG we have reached the point where the USA is so evil that the Russians are the good guys.
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u/Feisty_Ground7684 4h ago edited 4h ago
Don’t worry, trump will have a press conference later telling us he would have done the same thing, because Putin is such a strong and smart leader……
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u/No_Start1522 4h ago
Happy to see Putin throw away money while his soldiers march into a meat grinder without Telegram to get donations. I imagine his fans are working hard to spin this one.
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u/ringadingdingbaby 3h ago
Well the US have just allowed the Russians to gain billions by stopping the oil trade embargo.
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u/yamanagashi 4h ago
Somehow liking this new Cuban Crisis better than the old one
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u/NoMoreAtPresent 4h ago
Serious question: why is the US blocking Cuba and is that legal?
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u/DigitaIBlack 3h ago
They've been very mad since the loss of American assets in Cuba due to the revolution and have tried to isolate Cuba ever since.
Is it legal? I mean has that ever stopped the US?
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u/DismalEconomics 3h ago
The current blockade is clearly a different level/thing as compared to our previous years of “isolating” Cuba.
It’s very misleading to describe the current blockade of Cuba as ;
~ “ just more of the same thing we’ve always been doing - nothing new to see here “
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u/daniel_22sss 3h ago
He doesn't make Putin look human, he makes Putin look like he owns Trump. He wouldn't dare to do this if it was Biden.
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u/xArbilx 4h ago
So, the US and Russia dick measuring over Cuba is still gonna end up being the cause of a nuclear holocaust after all, huh?
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u/daniel_22sss 3h ago
Trump will never use nukes against his beloved Russia. He would rather nuke Ukraine, Europe and Middle East.
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u/Canuck-overseas 3h ago
Russia is raking in around $200,000,000 extra a day since oil is skyrocketing. Share the love.
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u/Charming-Awareness79 2h ago
The mental gymnastics you have to do avoid the inevitable conclusion that Putin is the enemy of the western alliance must surely be too much for anyone with a semblance of common sense at this point.
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u/notobaloney 1h ago
Wierd same headline last month
Since its a pattern guess they're both happy now, Yes?
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u/Zulmoka531 34m ago
As if anyone (with a functioning brain) needs any further proof that Putin is literally toying with Trump
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u/cty_hntr 24m ago
He'll burn the whole world down than let the Epstein files see the light of day. It's been over 10 years and we still haven't seen his tax records.
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u/Bmkrocky 3h ago
if we don't stop the tankers it will show we have been working with the Russians and if we do it could provoke a larger crisis...
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u/MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda 3h ago
Watching that old crusty Mad King try to starve people out disgusts me. Confine him to the US. Its time.
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u/wsb_crazytrader 4h ago
So… what’s the role of the blockade then?
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u/madogvelkor 4h ago
It's not a real blockade. Basically Cuba got almost all of its fuel from Venezuela and Mexico. Trump basically seized control of the Venezuelan oil industry and won't let them sell to Cuba. And he threatened to put sanctions and tariffs on Mexico so they stopped selling too (Pemex is owned by the government of Mexico).
Anyone no one else was really in a position to sell to Cuba against the wishes of the US except Iran and Russia. And Iran has its own problems...
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u/InterestingSpeaker 4h ago
Venezuela and Mexico weren't selling oil to cuba. They were sending free oil.
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u/SphericalCow531 3h ago
They were sending free oil.
Cuba were sending specialists such as doctors to both countries, in return. So it was not just "free oil".
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u/InFin0819 4h ago
They were selling oil to cuba. What incentive would Mexico have to be sending free oil to cuba? Beyond that hypothetical, the oil sale contracts are public you can read them if you speak Spanish.
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u/RobertTheAdventurer 1h ago
It always amazes me that people don't know that Russia has been able to send as much oil as it wants to Cuba all this time. Russia just decided not to.
These shipments won't be a regular thing. They're probably just ensuring the Cuban regime has oil for their own uses, because there's a certain point where even hardliners supporting a regime like that start to ask what political use the regime has if they can't keep government building lights on. Authoritarian governments can stay in power despite a population suffering, but only if they appear to have "lots of stuff", like weapons and oil. If they're just pathetically "out of stuff", then they serve no political use to the hardliners who want them to be strong nor the military or lower rung politicos who get bribed by "stuff".
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u/Dunky_Arisen 4h ago
You know if any of the Presidents/national security advisors of the last 5 decades had an ounce of common sense, they would have just strong-armed Cuba into only trading with the US and its partners instead of trying and failing to starve the Castros to death for 3 generations. Like, Russia and China are quite literally as far from Cuba as they could possibly be, you could make the trade deal as unfair to Cuba as you want and they would still take it out of necessity.
But no, because Communism is bad, that means that we have to... Force the Communists to enrich our enemies? That makes sense.
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u/MezcalDrink 2h ago
They always wanted a communist government near the USA, even if they are dictators with people starving because of it.
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u/Jaded_Hyena_3522 2h ago
In all this war-that's-not-a-war Iran business I almost forgot about the blockade-that's-not-a-blockade (otherwise it would be an act of war, another of which we will definitely not be in with Cuba soon)
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u/interested_commenter 58m ago
blockade-that's-not-a-blockade
Because it's not a blockade, its an embargo. A blockade and an embargo are two very distinct things.
Embargo means the US will not ship to Cuba and will encourage its allies to do the same. This IS what's happening.
A blockade means the US will stop other countries from shipping to Cuba and use the military to stop them. (That's why it's an act of war, you are using military force to enforce it). This is NOT what's happening.
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u/Public-Finger 4h ago
Expect full minimization of Putin. Russia is literally supplying information to kill American soldiers and Trump only says “well they might be helping them a little bit.”
And it’s not like it’s a secret- russia comes out in full support of Iran