U.S. will let Russian oil tanker reach Cuba, breaking Trump's effective fuel blockade

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

With a Russian tanker loaded with crude oil nearing Cuba, President Donald Trump said late Sunday he would not enforce his effective blockade against fuel supplies to the island.

“If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem, whether it’s Russia … and if other countries want to do it,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home.

“It’s not going to have an impact,” Trump said. “Cuba’s finished … whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”

The approach of the Russian-owned tanker Anatoly Kolodkin over the weekend set up a test of the Trump administration’s will to block fuel for Cuba — and how far the Kremlin is willing to go to help its longtime ally 90 miles from U.S. territory.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4uZhrn4

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TACO time

[Bread and Circuses]

1. I hope they send more, Cuba shouldn't be suffering

[Javaman]

3. when Cuba lost power last week, it's reported that everyone that was on a ventilator: died.

they aren't just suffering they are dying.

[mopinko]

6. snopes said that was not true.

that rumor was connected to a concert by kneecap.

Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras in Cuba confirmed that there were no deaths "associated with failures of assisted mechanical ventilation" during the blackout. Furthermore, there's no evidence that the concert triggered the blackout. Cuba's Electric Union confirmed that an unexpected failure of a generating unit at a thermoelectric plant nearly 350 miles away from the concert venue caused it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cuba-hospital-blackout-kneecap/?collection=472802

[yaesu]

2. It was genius of Russia to disguise the tanker as a taco bell delivery truck. nt

[70sEraVet]

4. Better headline: "Trump lets Putin grab him by the Mushroom!"

I knew trump would back down when pressured by Putin. Trump is a dictator, but he's not the Alpha dictator.
Still, good for Cuba.

[tanyev]

5. Gosh, remember when Republicans were obsessed with keeping Russia out of Cuba?

😒

[blue-wave]

7. We wouldn't want to deny

poor ol" Pooty his oil revenue so that he can bomb more Ukrainian maternity wards like he just bombed in Odessa now, would we?


Night of 'pure terror' targets maternity hospital in Odesa as 5 killed, 16 injured in Russian strikes across Ukraine

Read More: https://kyivindependent.com/five-killed-and-13-injured-across-ukraine-in-night-of-pure-terror/

Bomb the Kremlin.

Wipe it from the map. It's long overdue. Then Trump and JayDee can fly to Moscow to console their BFF Pootin.