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March 23, 2026 - The Culture War - Tim Pool
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Leftists INVADE CUBA, Hasan Piker ROASTED For Defending Communist Regime On Cuba Trip

Tim Pool critiques leftists like Hasan Piker for visiting Cuba during a blackout while staying in luxury hotels, questioning their motives as PR stunts rather than genuine aid. He contrasts this with U.S. policy tightening sanctions to prevent Chinese and Russian influence, arguing that Cuba would thrive economically within the Western sphere instead of relying on adversarial powers. Ultimately, the host suggests these activists prioritize promoting communism over Cuban well-being, misinterpreting resilience as contentment despite the embargo's economic devastation. [Automatically generated summary]

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Far-left activists from the United States have invaded Cuba.
They say they're bringing much needed aid to the beleaguered nation facing an embargo for generations, heavily impacted by the loss of their friend, Venezuela.
It all goes back to 2009.
Actually, it goes back way further than that.
But the U.S. had a treaty with Venezuela.
We helped build a bunch of oil infrastructure.
We all got rich.
In 2009, the new government came in and said, we are seizing these oil assets.
And try as they might, these companies couldn't get their resources back.
Well, Donald Trump recently went in and removed Maduro and restored access to this oil.
In the meantime, he said, we are strengthening the embargo on Cuba.
That means we will sanction any country that delivers oil to this island.
And with Venezuela getting cut off, Cuba was in trouble.
Now it's looking like the Cuban people are pissed.
They just want to live a good life.
They don't necessarily want to be involved in whatever this war is.
And that's true for most people in any country.
The Cuban government, of course, wants to remain sovereign and maintain their communist-like system.
And the U.S., of course, wants them to fall back into the Western fold.
This has resulted in serious hard times for the people of Cuba.
And for that, my heart goes out to them.
I'm deeply concerned about the suffering.
Crazy stories.
With the major blackouts, there's reports that all of the people on ventilators in one hospital died before the generators could get kicked back on.
But my friends, oil is not a human right, and war is hell.
There's a great quote that says, war is not actually hell, because in hell, only the guilty are punished.
And in war, innocent people suffer.
And so I won't be immediately as negative on the actions of people like Hassan Piker and Code Pink because I understand wanting to provide aid, even to a rival or adversarial nation.
But I don't blame the people of Cuba for what is going on with their government necessarily.
There is a certain responsibility every individual has when it comes to propping up their government.
But that doesn't mean that civilians should have to suffer.
And so what I will say is this.
Certainly, far-left activists staying in a five-star Cuban hotel with power generators when no one else has power is pissing a lot of people off.
Hassan Piker showing up with a $1,500 ring reportedly and a $700 shirt is certainly pissing people off.
But the response from Hassan is, yeah, maybe he should go there and help them then.
And so there is a controversy here because it looks like this may be one big PR stunt, not actually providing any real aid.
And the real question is, why is it that these anti-war activists, they may claim to be anti-war or wanting to help the people, but they always find themselves on the side of against America.
Either going to China or going to Iran or going to now Cuba.
Guys, I think the best thing for the Cuban people would be to enter the fold of the Western sphere of influence.
They would live like kings on that island.
Be an amazing vacation destination open to so many people, and not even that far away.
It's like what?
90 miles from Florida.
So these activists going there and demanding that the?
U.s.
Basically open this country back up to eastern influence and keep themselves cut off from the west, I think that it's not helping these people.
But i'm, but again, i'm gonna.
I want to be reasonable in this.
You know if they're really bringing food aid or otherwise.
I'm glad people are being helped okay, because even Those of us in the West during war, we do not just kill the enemy when Captured.
We do tend to their wounds because we understand we do not want people to die.
It's just that war is sometimes inevitable between two opposing forces that will not back down.
So you always, always want to avoid death and killing.
And that means we as human beings, even in the worst times of war, have provided aid to our enemy after defeating them.
If they're alive, you tend to their wounds.
But let's jump into this story, my friends, and talk about what is going on with these individuals who are on the ground and what everyone's saying.
And these accusations are absolutely brutal.
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Here's a story from Fox News.
Far-left activists stay in five-star Cuban hotel as island suffers total blackout.
They say the far-left group, Code Pink, sponsored flights to the communist-led island, and the group was joined by Isra Hersey, the daughter of Rep Ilhan Omar, and left-wing Twitch streamer Hassan Piker, an ally of Democratic socialist Zorhan Mamdani, which is a dumb way to describe him.
He's the most prominent socialist leftist streamer, and he is associated with the DSA.
Communism Goes This Way 00:13:12
tim pool
You don't got to throw Zorhan Mamdani in there.
I guess it's good for the search engine optimization and the algorithm.
The group has faced heavy backlash for staying in expensive hotels to meet with government officials, even as Cuban residents go without electricity.
Trump imposed an oil blockade on Cuba earlier this year after the U.S. captured former Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro.
Now, to be fair, the embargo has been there forever.
Venezuela was shuttling oil to Cuba, keeping them afloat, and the U.S. largely just let it happen, which makes no sense to me.
Okay, this is the West.
We have the Monroe doctrine.
We do not allow Eastern powers to come to the Western Hemisphere and dictate policy and put an adversary on our doorstep.
The people of Cuba are allowed to believe what they want to believe, for sure, but it doesn't mean we tolerate and allow their armaments and their expanse.
Cuba played a huge role in several wars throughout the past, to be reasonable, more so in the 60s and the 70s.
They sent troops, they fought there are problems involved in having an adversary at our doorstep.
I mean, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs, a lot of controversy.
The people of Cuba would live like kings because it's just so close to the United States.
A lot of people would travel there.
And I'm not saying they should be forced to bend to our whim or anything like this, but considering they were being propped up by Venezuela, an adversarial force, and China, an adversarial force, those countries are going to have a difficult time providing resources on this side of the planet.
So the embargo's been there forever.
Venezuela, we take Maduro, we get our oil assets back, and I believe we call that justice, okay?
You don't get to steal our stuff.
Let me put it like this, because I'm adamant about this.
I am skeptical on regime change.
I said this when we took Maduro out.
This could destabilize the region.
You've got narco gangs and cartels.
We don't want them seizing power in Venezuela.
However, it hasn't happened and it looks stable.
The issue is we had a treaty with Venezuela.
Our corporations invested in the expansion of oil infrastructure because it's an oil-rich nation.
And then in 2009, they stole it from us.
Our precious.
Okay.
And so some of these companies said, we're going to sue and we're going to take it to the court.
And the courts were like, it's our own country.
We'll do whatever we want.
You ain't getting nothing back.
$10 billion in oil assets that we built stolen from us.
And we did nothing about it.
So then Trump goes in and says, we're going to snatch this guy, criminally charge him, get back our oil infrastructure.
And we did.
And then he says, and we're not going to let Cuba have it because they're not in line with us and they have no right to it.
So when Trump says it's an embargo, I say this.
We are under no obligation to allow our oil to be transported to an adversarial nation, small as it may be.
We're under no obligation to do this.
We are under no obligation to open up our hemisphere, our seas to rival countries that want to provide resources to a country that we have an issue with.
We are under no obligation to do this.
Now, again, one can make the argument: if Cuba wants to do trade, let them do it.
My point is, there is going to be conflict between Chinese vessels and other tankers flying false flags, which has been happening, coming into the region where we police our seas.
And so at a certain point, guys, they've got unmarked tankers moving through the region, flying false flags.
Yet, okay, well, you're going to get seized.
Now, again, it's a much more difficult conversation on whether or not we should literally be blocking oil from Cuba.
My point is they had an ally in Venezuela easily supplying them, and now they don't.
That's their problem, not ours.
If they are not sustainable on their own, why should we be obligated to help them?
Then the next point is we are obstructing other countries from coming in and providing that aid.
But the concern is, of course, China, Iran, Russia coming in and giving oil to an enemy makes no sense.
Why would we allow that?
Considering they're on our doorstep, we don't want another Cuban missile crisis.
Well, my friends, the videos are going viral.
From Visigrad, angry Cuban man goes to the hotel where code pink communists are staying in Cuba.
They get to enjoy electricity thanks to a generator, but 99.9% of Cubans are without electricity tonight after a nationwide blackout.
Look at that.
And look at the lights on the side of the building, which are just so unnecessary.
Indeed.
So for those that are just listening, it is a beautiful hotel, well lit.
Now, some people have accused Hassan Piker of committing a crime by going and providing resources to an embargoed nation.
This is not correct.
Guys, I can argue why I think Hassan's got bad opinions or why I think he's politically dangerous, whatever it might be, but he is abiding by the law.
The hotel that he's in, it's one of the few places you're allowed to go to.
So when I worked for Vice, for instance, I was on a plane twice a week.
Numerous countries, many of them sanctioned.
We were looking at North Korea.
We were looking at Iran.
We were looking at Cuba.
And the State Department said, in the normal course of travel, you are allowed to buy and do anything.
The only thing you can't do is like buy a rug or cigars.
And I'm like, okay, they said, look, if you go to Cuba, you can stay at any hotel.
You can, right?
You can, you can, in the normal course of travel, you are not restricted.
But you can't buy cigars to bring them back to sell.
That's the point.
So that's all.
And I said, okay, we ended up not doing any of that stuff.
But by all means, criticize the man, but act like, you know, claiming that he's doing illegal things or whatever.
I mean, maybe one could make that interpretation, but as far as I know, just going there is not illegal.
Tons of people go there all the time.
Now we have this from Ayal Yacobi.
He says, breaking Hassan Piker's VIP flotilla was caught throwing food at Cuban children to make them dance while they record videos for their social media.
They think Cuban children are animals at the zoo.
And here's the video.
We don't need all that loud banging.
So there's people dancing.
And Cuba block.
Socialists.
That's right.
Now, I don't see anywhere in this video people throwing food at children.
So I don't know what that's all about.
And all the same, the left has posted videos of just people playing music and dancing.
Now, the propaganda, I shouldn't call it propaganda necessarily, I'll just say the conflicted worldview.
On the right, or I should say the anti-socialists, because even some liberals are upset about this, you have this claim that they're throwing food at children going to dance because they're starving.
Well, on the other side, the close-up video shows them just dancing and lagging with music.
And the argument coming from the leftists is that it shows their resilience.
Even in the face of an embargo and power outage and lack of energy, they are living their best lives.
And the right is saying, no, you're making a spectacle of them to push your propaganda.
Indeed, my friends, there is more.
Check this out.
Breaking the five-star hotel where Code Pink Hassan Piker, kneecap, and other communists are staying is the only place in Cuba with electricity at the moment.
Look at this video.
Here you can see there are people outside lurking around.
They have no electricity, but this beautiful, beautiful five-star hotel certainly does.
It's like a Potemkin village, isn't it?
I'm sorry.
I got to say this.
You've got a luxury place for the wealthy in a communist country, and they have electricity when no one else does because they have an oil supply.
They can have it.
This is the way communism goes.
There is no reality.
This is what the leftists try to make the argument on.
They say, we should be in a classless society.
Impossible.
Smart people will always be ahead of you.
Thank you and have a nice day.
There are millions upon millions of people smarter than me who have power over the business I do and can disrupt, control, manipulate the things I'm doing.
And I only try to do my thing.
And same thing goes for you and everybody else.
A smart person will navigate a system, find the nooks and the crannies and the exploitation, and they will make it work.
So when you say we're going to have a communist country, there's going to be a luxury hotel with electricity when you don't have it.
And there is nothing you can do to stop it.
So here you can see they're filming through the windows.
It looks beautiful.
Beautiful in Cuba.
This amazing five-star hotel.
Look at these people inside.
They're having a good time.
That's right.
They are welcome in.
They can afford it.
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There you go.
tim pool
Come on in, everybody.
Electricity, eating and air conditioning, all of that good stuff.
Internet, just so perfect.
Now, we've got this video from the Rubin Report.
Hassan Piker says the Cuban people enjoy not having electricity due to their fun island mindset.
Keep in mind he's staying in Cuba's most exclusive hotel with power.
Full stop.
I'm going to tell you what he actually says.
Certainly, you've got the left and the right divide.
But if you want to understand Hassan's perspective, even if he is a liar or crass or callous, whatever you want to call it, he's not saying they enjoy not having electricity.
He's saying that they are finding enjoyment despite the embargo.
He is advocating for them to have oil.
Here's the video.
hasan piker
It's incredible.
It's truly one of my favorite places officially.
I totally understand why Will was saying that about Cuba.
It's remarkable.
The people's resilience is remarkable.
I mean, there's like rolling blackouts that take place throughout the day, every day, all around the country, right?
11 million people.
But today is a beautiful day out here.
It's like 75 degrees, sunny.
People are partying.
People are partying the fucking streets.
I don't know if it's like an island mindset.
I don't know if it's like, I don't know if that has something to do with it.
I'm sure that has something to do with it, but like they're just chilling.
tim pool
Like, nowhere in this video is he saying that they're enjoying not having electricity.
The point he is making is that they are having fun regardless of the blackout.
So by all means, you can criticize the guy, and I think that's warranted, but I also think it's important to understand the argument he's making and not put words in his mouth because I think he's largely wrong.
Hey, they're just chilling.
By all means, call them resilient.
But guys, if they opened up to Western trade and dropped the communism stuff and stopped working with our adversaries, they would live like kings.
So again, I don't trust that these leftists have the true well-being in mind for these individuals.
I think the real issue is they just like communism.
So they want to make communism look good.
So they're staying in five-star hotels saying, look how resilient these people are.
They want communism, bro.
The one thing I will say definitively, this is not communism.
There will not be communism.
And the fact that you are a wealthy man in Cuba during a crisis in a luxury hotel with power and internet proves that.
Skeletor, the Muppet pastor on X, says, I'm glad they did this.
If only because it shows exactly who they are and how they view the others.
They're dying to live up to our stereotypes of them.
And it's an image of these lefties filming the poor people sitting in the streets.
Man, if I lived in Cuba and these people showed up, I'd be flipping buses over.
Don't come like this.
There's a video that I reacted to where this woman goes up to a homeless lady you probably saw and puts her hands on her and she's like, are you okay?
And the homeless lady's like, why are you doing this to me?
I can't stand these people.
I'm going to go film how magnanimous I am.
Now, look, I'm going to give Hassan some credit because I want to be reasonable.
People criticize him for being this wealthy dude who's a socialist or whatever.
Here's this tweet.
Cyberboy says, Hassan's $690 button-down shirt alone can feed a family of four in Cuba for about a year.
And then someone else says, you didn't look at his Cartier ring.
$1,480 Cartier Clo ring.
And it's like a nail bent around his finger.
I got to be honest.
I find that very strange that he has that ring.
Hassan, I just don't like your aesthetic.
I do not like your personality.
Okay.
I'll try to respect what your honest take on things are is or what you actually said.
But why would anyone, let alone a socialist, buy a $1,500 ring and a $700 shirt?
I think this shirt that I'm wearing costs 50 bucks.
It's a Brixton flannel I got from Zoomies.
It's a $50 shirt.
I'm wearing $20 pants that I got from Amazon.
And I can afford all of these things.
I'm not going to buy them.
But look, go ahead and buy whatever you want, brother.
That being said, the criticism here, I don't think, is the criticism about a socialist being super rich and buying extremely expensive clothes.
Look, I'm going to, that's fair.
That is absolutely fair.
Ideological Difference Worth Resisting 00:11:22
tim pool
However, dude literally went to Cuba on a mission that they say is to provide aid.
Now, I'm going to say this.
I don't know that I believe it, right?
I want to be fair and make sure I'm representing what they're saying, but we can always make arguments about what we think they're actually doing.
And I think these people are communists who advocate for communism.
They hate the United States, and they want to advocate for our adversaries.
It is easy to say you're going to provide aid and do all these things, but I don't think that's the real reason, though.
I think they're actually doing it.
They're doing this to win hearts and minds with propaganda.
Unfortunately, they say of communism, you can vote your way in, but you got to shoot your way out.
So I'm not sure I think they're being fair.
So this guy, Gerard says, Hassan Piker is in Cuba with the Nuestra Nuestra American conflict, help deliver crucially needed supplies and stand in solidarity with the people in Cuba to highlight the severity of the impacts of the U.S. blockade on the whole country.
And this is a video that Hassan posted.
I want you to hear what he says about what his mission is and why he's there.
hasan piker
What's up, guys?
I'm Hassan Piker.
I'm here in Havana, Cuba right now on a humanitarian aid mission alongside numerous other organizations, including but not limited to the DSA.
And my goal here today is to bring awareness to what my government, the United States of America, has done to the Cuban population.
One of the most ridiculous embargoes of all time that has only gotten more deadly as time has gone on.
We have tremendous sanctions on oil transfers in this country.
We're not allowing other countries to send in oil as well.
It's a necessary resource.
The hospitals are in a state of dire disrepair already due to the different components of sanctions.
The hospital machines are broken and they can't be repaired because Cuba is considered a state sponsor of terrorism.
And I wanted to basically showcase the personal lives of everyday Cubans and how this system, this rigorous sanctions system actually dominates their lives in very meaningful ways, and yet we don't even know about it.
Most Americans don't even know about it.
And I would go so far as to say even a lot of Cubans don't know about it either.
tim pool
Indeed.
And then I would go so far as to say sanctions are good, and I'm in favor of the embargo.
We want soft power.
We do not want bombs and war and killing.
So when we have an adversary, we have a nation that is opposed to our interests, what do we do?
I would prefer not to invade or kill or otherwise.
I'd prefer we simply say, we are not going to allow trade from our country to yours.
We are not going to allow our trade partners to work with you.
And then they say, oh, but that's not fair.
And we should bring China and China's not coming to our hemisphere and bringing resources to our adversaries.
Why would we allow that?
We don't want war.
We don't want gunfire.
We don't want people being shot.
This is the easiest thing to do.
And it's honestly the most humane way to have a conflict.
So when Hassan is saying we're going to bring these resources, this is so inhumane.
What are we going to do?
We're going to allow our adversaries to set up a base?
We have no obligation to do that.
The Cuban missile crisis was crazy.
The world could have ended.
Now, again, conflict exists.
We wish it didn't.
But if it's going to exist, I will take sanctions over anything else.
Well, my friends, Cuba's deputy foreign minister says its military is preparing for possible aggression from the U.S.
The Cuban official insisted that negotiations on regime change weren't on the table amid talks with the U.S. indeed.
The people with power don't want to give that power up.
You know what?
Think about the history of nations and countries and conquest.
I was watching Braveheart, and I'm sure you've all seen it.
And also The Patriot, because Mel Gibson, you know, he makes great movies, apparently.
And there are honest questions about when is the right time to bend the knee and when it is not the right time to bend the knee.
And I would argue this.
I do not see anything meaningful for the Cuban people in resisting American influence.
None whatsoever.
I guess, you know, opposing gay communism or whatever, but the gay communists are there propping you up.
So they got more gay communists and literal communists than they would if they were the United States.
I put it like this.
We're a powerful nation.
Good.
We have allies and influence, and we don't want our adversaries funding our adversary.
We don't want our adversaries providing funding to other adversaries, especially in our region, in our hemisphere.
And so we go to Cuba, we say, listen, come into the Western fold.
You'll get access, trade, resources, you'll live like kings.
And they say, no.
And the question is, why?
For what ideological reason do they oppose it?
Now, of course, you're going to hear people on the left say things like capitalism is bad.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the leaders of this country and the people of this country would greatly benefit from expanding economics.
That's why they're trying to get them oil because they want to be there.
It's so crazy that Greta Thunberg, of all people, was like, they're blocking the oil from Cuba, who like only four years ago was like, we must stop all oil.
Now she's for it.
There are countries where, say, like Islamists will come and say, bow before us and live our way or die.
And that's when I'm like, yo, there's a line.
You want to put women in, you know, lock them down, strip them of their rights, chop off people's hands, like just transform our way of life so dramatically and so detrimentally.
We would say no to this.
But with the people of Cuba, it's not really like that.
The people of Cuba would live like kings if they went back into the Western fold.
So this is just a protracted and prolonged suffering for no reason.
And the communists, of course, are going to advocate for communism.
Well, Trump says maybe we're going to go in.
Cuba's deputy foreign minister said Sunday the nation's military is preparing for the possibility of military aggression from the U.S. and that it would be naive for Cuba's leaders to ignore the possibility of conflict.
Our military is always prepared.
And in fact, it is prepared these days for the possibility of military aggression.
We would be naive not to consider the possibility of conflict.
Fernandez de Casio said the country's leaders truly hope that doesn't occur.
We don't see why it would have to occur.
We find no justification whatsoever.
Tensions between the U.S. and Cuba have been escalating following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela.
That led to the capture of the nation's president Maduro, this we all understand.
In January, Trump signed an executive order threatening to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sold or provided oil to Cuba.
Residents of the island have suffered daily power outages amid the U.S. blockade.
I'll tell you what's happening.
It's all part of the big picture.
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba.
It is to bring back the petrodollar.
The contract with Saudi Arabia ended.
Saudi Arabia was saying, anybody wants to buy oil from us, it's got to be in U.S. dollars.
That created the linchpin by which all of the countries agreed to operate.
We provide aid, I'll put quotes on the aid, to foreign countries so that they have U.S. dollars to buy oil with, maintaining the petrodollar system.
We took out Maduro to get access to Venezuelan oil because Iran has disrupted the Strait of Hormuz, threatening the Gulf states who transport 20% of oil and natural gas.
Trump wants the U.S. to be the unipolar power on the planet.
And that's the game he's playing.
In the meantime, the people that are in opposition to this war and what is going on with Iran have explicitly stated it's time for the U.S. to share power with other countries.
When asked if this means China, Tucker Carlson said, of course.
There are two worlds about it.
A global world.
And it's interesting that this shift has happened where whatever you think of Tucker Carlson, advocating for a multipolar world with other large nations means our Western worldview will be third place, third rate.
Donald Trump doesn't want that, and he's going to do whatever it takes to get it.
But then there are prominent individuals who are very critical of the liberal economic order.
And of course, I have been as well.
I've not been a big fan of the ideas America as world police.
I like the idea of what Trump was originally working on, securing our borders, bringing manufacturing back.
However, as I stated, and guys, you watch my show, you heard me say it, I'll take credit for it.
Donald Trump was butting heads with reality.
An aging population, no new people, and the collapse of the petrodollar means in the short term, there won't be a U.S.
And if you really want to turn this thing around, you've got to have a gradual shift back to strengthening America.
You can't just overnight, otherwise it all comes crashing down.
The argument that I've made for sometimes the powers that be want to shift the power of the United States to China to avert Thucydides' trap.
And I believe I have been largely vindicated, though I don't know for sure.
Thucydides' trap is that when a global power is in decline, then there's an ascending power, they go to war.
The dominant power's last chance to stop the loss of total power is to fight about it.
And the powers that be, the uniparty deep state, said, let's just transfer our assets to China.
Let them run the show and we'll be rich forever.
And therein lies the big question about when you lay down your sword and just say, let me be rich.
In this instance, it's an existential crisis to the United States.
Trump says no.
And he'll do whatever it takes to make sure that the answer stays no.
We will not give up that power.
But there are certainly many leaders confronted with an ascendant China, said, we'll kiss the pinky ring.
I think about it like, you know, Braveheart.
And it's not a complete representation of the conflict and the ultimate rule of, you know, Great Britain.
But he did not want them to come in and assert authority over the Scots.
Although the history is much more complicated than just that movie again, I'll stress.
The point is, if you're facing death and destruction, the king comes to you and says, listen, we're going to provide resources for you.
You're going to be in the fold.
If you largely agree ideologically, why say no?
You know, another way to look at it is if a powerful corporate just came to me and said, we will never interfere with the creative process of the company that you're doing.
We want to invest and provide resources and make the show bigger.
Why say no?
Why simply just go to war and get destroyed when they're offering you an opportunity?
That's my point about Cuba.
Why should Cuba just lay down and die when they're being offered wealth and access?
And it's not even that ideological, there's not even a great ideological difference.
I would then say to China, when they offer our elites, I say clearly there is an ideological difference worth resisting.
My friends, pick your poison.
Trump is now engaging in the wars that so many people didn't want him to, because I think Trump realized with Saudi Arabia off the petrodollar, China wins.
And so when his goal is make America great again, you can't have a unipolar China power globally because then we will just be, we will be Cubad.
We will be embargoed and sanctioned and our economy will stagnate.
So Trump is saying no to that.
I'm not going to tell you what is or isn't right or wrong or good or whatever, but that's just what is happening.
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So to our lefty American friends who are on their little jaunt, we'll call it, well, you know, have fun.
I think they're largely down there to propagandize, not really to provide aid, but if they're helping out some people, I'll take that and I'll still criticize them.
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