Alistair Campbell

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The Rest Is Politics · 537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband · 27 May 2026 podcast

So for a long time through the Cold War, it was the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union collapses.

They had an economic crisis then.

Venezuela, more recently and since, the Americans took out Maduro and installed Delce Rodriguez as president.

there has been a blockade.

And Andy's question, is this doing to Cuba or Israel did to Gaza?

I can see the parallels, but I think the difference here, I think this more relates to what we've already seen with Trump's administration, where they signal intent very, very strongly.

They did it in Venezuela, did it in Iran.

What I worry about, what's going on with Cuba is,

Which is basically running out of fuel.

People are living day to day, hand to mouth, and it's just underlining how we all need energy.

And these energy flows in the modern age where norms are breaking down, it becomes even more important.

But there is effectively a bit of a humanitarian catastrophe going on in Cuba.

And interestingly, going back to some of the things we talk about with Trump and the changing world order, the question there, why is the UK government silent?

I'm sure the UK government has been saying things, but they haven't cut through to me.

The things that have cut through to me have been China and Russia.

condemning this as a violation of sovereignty.

So it is underlining once more that we're in this very, very different world.

And of course, Trump is, as ever, he's really sort of using every weapon at his disposal.

There's economic warfare.

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