Christian Parenti

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The Jimmy Dore Show · The Real Reason U.S. Wants To Crush Cuba! w/ Christian Parenti · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

For example, Sherritt is a big Canadian nickel and cobalt miner in Cuba, and they have been forced out by

the expansion of sanctions under the trump administration so this new threat against cuba by the trump administration what i'm trying to do in this article is think about what is this about why are they so hell-bent on

crushing Cuba, even though Cuba is open for business.

Its original crime, i.e.

socialism, is really very, very badly frayed, right?

And they have, right after the publication of this article, they passed another law in Cuba that liberalized even further.

And now, really, in many ways, the only barrier

that American capitalists face in investing in Cuba is the American government.

So why is the Trump administration after Cuba?

I think it has to do with the fact that Cuba...

is still sovereign, and that the Cuban Revolution has humiliated the Central Intelligence Agency and the US defense establishment, and that this is too much, and that it's still, even as it has largely abandoned socialism, it still stands as some sort of symbol

to dissidents of all varieties throughout the world across the global south who see cuba surviving tattered and beat up as it is surviving 90 miles off the coast of florida and they think wait a minute hey if the cubans whether you like them or dislike them is almost irrelevant if the cubans can defy the united states and survive for you know now almost 70 years maybe we can

maybe we can go up against the powers that be here in this country, even if they're also backed by the United States and the European Union, whatever.

I mean, it's not impossible for little countries to do daring things and to defy the empire, to defy powerful states, most importantly among those, the United States.

And so I think that is what's going on here is that

It doesn't matter how capitalist Cuba becomes.

Cuba needs to be humiliated and destroyed for having dared to defy and defeat the CIA on numerous occasions.

And we could get into what those defeats are.

Some of them are pretty spectacular.

It's a spectacular history, really.

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