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I'm David Remnick.

Since the beginning of this year, President Trump has turned sharply from his promised focus on domestic issues, America first, to a series of foreign military adventures that have shocked many of his own supporters and much of the world.

In January, there was the invasion of Venezuela and the seizure of its president, Nicolas Maduro.

Then came the threatened invasion of Greenland.

And now there's a war with Iran that has engulfed the Middle East, killed many hundreds of people, and threatens the entire global economy.

And yet no sooner was the bombing of Iran underway that Trump and some of his allies began teasing a new move.

The U.S.

has effectively shut off Cuba's oil supply and the electrical grid had a near total blackout last week.

New Yorker staff writer John Lee Anderson has been to Cuba countless times in his career and his most recent trip followed the invasion of Venezuela.

I spoke with John Lee Anderson this past week.

John Lee, the Trump administration has recently said that the president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has to step down.

So let's start there.