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U.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to island
CNBC ^ | March 20, 2026 | Sam Meredith

Posted on 03/20/2026 7:52:41 AM PDT by joesbucks

The U.S. Treasury Department has said Cuba won’t be allowed to take delivery of Russian crude, even as the fuel-starved island appears poised to receive two tankers carrying oil and gas.

In a general license published Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Cuba to a list of countries that would be blocked from transactions involving the sale, delivery or offloading of crude or petroleum products that originate from Russia.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: blockade; cuba; energy; gulfofamerica; monroedoctrine; oil; russia

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1 posted on 03/20/2026 7:52:41 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

Not so SWIFT. The ability to adapt by Washington DC is in reality bugets for one era not calibrated for the present.
The World World contines by US, but many of Americas nifty fity military bloc have no longer an ability to be the willing vassels. America military power projection is declining. Cuba is the kind of bullying Americans have become accustomed since Clinton bombed former Yugoslavia. Iran though is an object lesson in biting off more than you epeected.
Trump still has Greenland to seize. He has popularity of Hitler in 1939. He is also playing RISK and hedging no one stops him.
Syria, Venezuela, Panama down.
Losing the Iraqi Greenzone may be in Trump’s future.

Maybe Trump is giving the Deep State the rope to expend themselves and once the MIC is defanged he can work on Epstein files and heald in a petiod od cleaning up corript billionaire political power.


2 posted on 03/20/2026 8:19:15 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper

Could you do that over in a recognizable language?


3 posted on 03/20/2026 8:21:42 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jumper

Wow - did you set Google Translate to ‘gibberish’?


4 posted on 03/20/2026 8:32:08 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: joesbucks

How does that work?


5 posted on 03/20/2026 8:39:37 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Jamestown1630

Let’s guess at Jumper’s native tongue!


6 posted on 03/20/2026 8:44:31 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: VanShuyten

He’s lazy and disrespectful.


7 posted on 03/20/2026 8:52:14 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: joesbucks

The U.S. Navy needs to seize the tankers and off load in U.S. ports as reparations for the war.


8 posted on 03/20/2026 9:18:53 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Jumper

Good morning AI.


9 posted on 03/20/2026 9:48:38 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US;-))
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10 posted on 03/20/2026 11:02:03 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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