When journalists asked Donald Trump about Cuba last week, he replied: “It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover, it wouldn’t matter, because they’re really down to the fumes.”
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It was the latest in a series of increasingly belligerent statements from the White House about the island 90 miles off the Florida coast, which has prompted commentators to wonder whether Cuba could be the next country on Trump’s list of targets.
The US has ratcheted up pressure on its longtime foe since capturing the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro – Cuba’s most important foreign benefactor – in January. Trump cut off Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba and threatened to put tariffs on any country that sold oil to Cuba, strangling the Caribbean island’s already antiquated grid. On Saturday, Cuba’s power grid collapsed, leaving the country without electricity for the third time in March.
According to Dr Philip Brenner, professor emeritus of international relations at the American University in Washington DC, this situation is designed by the White House to squeeze Cuba so badly that its people will rebel against the regime. But it’s a long shot.
Watch Brenner explain what the outcome of this pressure could be, and head to the link to read our opinion piece from Owen Jones, who recently travelled to Cuba to survey the situation on the ground ► https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/havana-warfare-donald-trump-oil-blockade
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