By Randy Alonso Falcon on March 31, 2026 from Havana
Just when you think cynicism has its limits, reality takes us by surprise.
Amid the confusion of the media and analysts and the outburst of anger from the vociferous crowd in Miami—triggered by the arrival in Cuba of a Russian oil tanker carrying over 100,000 tons of oil, following a couple of months of a strict U.S. energy blockade—the U.S. Secretary of State dropped a gem in an interview with Al Jazeera.
According to the senior official, “We have not taken any punitive measures against the Cuban regime. They say we have, but that is not true.” He added: “The only change is that they are no longer receiving free Venezuelan oil.”
What a joy! The U.S. government has done nothing against Cuba; it has not threatened the rest of the world with sanctions if they sell us fuel, it hasn’t pressured governments to remove Cuban medical brigades or expel diplomats, it isn’t targeting any financial transactions or sources of funding on the island, it doesn’t prohibit its citizens from traveling to Cuba nor discourage visits from other nations, and it doesn’t maintain a decades-long blockade with hardly any cracks
The victim is to blame, for refusing to bow down to the aggressor.
That is how cynical imperial policy is. And perverse.
As an example, the new doctrine of the U.S. Secretary of War. The criminal who orders bombs and missiles against Iran without remorse has now announced a new strategic concept: “Greater North America”, which, in his words, includes “every sovereign nation and territory north of the equator, from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana, that are not part of the ‘Global South’. It is our security perimeter.”
Nothing could be more akin to that doctrine of “living space” that Nazism espoused to subjugate much of the world and practice its putrid racial policy. Nothing could be more similar than the Zionist dream of “Greater Israel,” which aims to make Arab nations disappear and expel their populations.
To the head of the Pentagon, we are the backyard that the United States must manage. To the imperial elite in power, we are merely their “security perimeter.”
It is the same figure who time and again used quotes from Scripture to invoke divine backing for military actions against the Iranian people. Something to which Pope Leo XIV responded emphatically during Mass on Palm Sunday: “No one can use God to justify war,” he said in St. Peter’s Square, and declared that the Creator “does not hear the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
The history of the empire since its expansion has been rife with cynicism and perversion; but rarely before has it been so transparent and violent. Horrors will ensue if the world does not stop this brotherhood of fanatics of chaos, manipulation, and arrogance.
Randy Alonso Falcon is a Cuban journalist, General Director of IDEAS Multimedios and the Cubadebate website and the Cuban TV news show Mesa Redonda
Source: Cubadebate, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English