Hal Kempfer

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | May 29th, 2026: U.S. And Iran Reach Draft Agreement & Cuba Feels The Squeeze · 30 May 2026 podcast

That's a that's an assessment.

There are those who are probably looking a lot closer to that saying, what would they do?

You know, we saw what they did.

But the revolution guard corps, the besieged militia in Iran are a completely different thing.

They are ideological wackos, for lack of a better term.

But in Cuba, you know, I kind of take a historic parallel.

When Castro came in, his 26 June movement or whatever came in, and the Batista forces basically said, we will not fire on the Cuban people.

Now, I don't know if it'll be a repeat of that.

I always found that rather interesting.

I don't know if that's something that's in the nature of the Cuban character, shall we say, that they wouldn't do something like that.

But I think at this point, everybody's exhausted.

You know, they're looking at this economy.

And every week that goes by, the reality of what's going on now gets worse and worse and worse, which completely undermines the legitimacy of the regime.

If they can't produce or provide basic human services, and for a communist country,

Basic human services is very much on the heads of the regime.

They can't turn around and say, well, it's that darn private sector, it's those evil corporations.

There's nothing to point to.

There are no evil corporations.

It's all the government.

Venezuela it is one of the most interesting I don't be a case study someday it's one of the most interesting things I've ever seen where we went in there you know took out Maduro the head of the regime the head of the Chavista movement and and ended up doing business cutting a deal with Delcio Rodriguez his vice president this and she was a she's a hardcore ideologue I mean she was totally bought in on that she'd been over to Russia trained in Russia or educated in Russia and

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