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

um you know negotiations towards peace so you you know if if that if the end of that war if it ever comes is really humiliating or if the lack of the end of that war i mean if that finally turns into you know you know help is seen as triggering a an economic crash and trump is totally humiliated by it then he could do something pretty insane like invade cuba and worry about the aftermath later so and if that happens i think that would be that would be a total disaster but

I mean, it could, but if there was normalization with Cuban nationalist politics in control, maybe that could be prevented.

I mean, if Cuban sovereignty could be some sort of rational filter shaping foreign investment, as it has, I mean, it has played that role vis-a-vis Canadian, Italian, Mexican, Spanish investment.

know they have a very big renewable energy sector they've got a very big organic farming scene and that that all came out of necessity beginning in the 1990s they spent about 22 years following

a really not very functional Soviet style model of centralized planning that allowed for zero mixed economy, like zero role for small business.

And all of that was backed off of in 1991, 92, when Soviet Union collapsed.

And so they

out of necessity, they started, you know, uh, encouraging farming and a lot of it out of necessity was organic because you've got to pay hard currency for all these chemical inputs.

And they're actually, there were people from UC Santa Cruz went down there and, and, uh, you know, trained with Cubans and trained Cubans and organic farming and all that.

So, I mean, you could imagine a version of a more, a steadily more capitalist Cuban economy.

It's a mixed economy.

Um,

currently, in which it's not drenched in glyphosate, but that requires a government that maintains its sovereignty and has autonomy from the United States.

And that seems to be

The sticking point here, the U.S.

is not, or this administration is not okay with Cuban sovereignty.

It doesn't matter how much it gives up on the old socialist program.

They don't like Cuban patriotism, Cuban sovereignty, period.

Thank you very much for having me on.

It's great to see you too, man.

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