Nika Kovacs

And a common thread in all these autocratic societies is what may be good for the strongman or even for like a cabal of people on top of the system is

is not benefiting anybody else.

One thing we all share in common these days in most countries is that we're all getting screwed by a bunch of corrupt strongmen who have hijacked power.

And so Putin's success is not the Russian people's success.

Absolutely not.

And you would hope that at a certain point,

that leads to some change there, but it's not going to happen tomorrow.

I hope so.

You should talk to my daughters.

They're too young for that, but later.

Once again, there's an incoherence here because we created this humanitarian crisis in Cuba, right?

On top of the embargo that's in place, on top of Trump's reversal of the Obama era opening that I negotiated, they put this blockade in place.

And so the policy of the United States

under Trump was to do the opposite of what he just said.

The policy of the United States has been to restrict any oil and fuel from getting to Cuba, which is leading people to die.

I mean, when hospitals shut down, incubators, ventilators shut down, right?

I mean, this is not without human consequence.

And so now he's magnanimous because he's letting a single oil tanker through his own blockade.

And again, it's like Iran in the sense of, I don't know what we're trying to achieve in Cuba.

Because the Cuban government, whatever you think of it, poses no threat to the United States.