Ben Rhodes

Farmers won't be able to run tractors.

They won't be able to grow food.

The transportation sector could just cease to operate.

And before those cuts, Cuba was experiencing rolling blackouts of up to 20 hours outside of Havana and up to 10 hours at a time per day.

inside Havana.

And the tourism sector, which was a huge source of revenue, has been crushed for the last five years by COVID and then hurricanes and now, you know,

whatever's going on, the political risk.

And the Cuban economy could be even further decimated if Cuban doctors working in Venezuela are forced to leave.

And I saw one economist say that the impact of Cuba losing its revenue from like the medical exchange of doctors with Venezuela could be worse than the fall of the Soviet Union when they lost those subsidies, which seems massive.

So Ben, you're seeing a lot of Republicans, again, Lindsey Graham,

Kind of licking his chops and predicting an imminent collapse of the Cuban government.

Do you think they're right?

What are you watching for?

No.

Well, fentanyl's a WMD now.

This is the thing I did want to talk about.

Like, I'm not a fan of the Cuban government.

It is a one party rule.

There's rampant, you know, systemic political repression and detentions and activists and journalists get thrown in prison.

And some people get tortured and there's restrictions on speech and the media.