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February 9, 2026 The Evil of U.S. Economic Strangulation of Cuba ([link removed])
To justify his targeting the Cuban people with severe economic privation, including a high risk of death by starvation and illness, President Trump has declared a “national emergency.” What’s the “emergency”? He says that Cuba’s communist regime poses a grave threat to the United States because, he says, it is a supporter of terrorism and because it has aligned itself with America’s “adversaries.”
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