The New York Times Chinese Website wrote tonight (May 21): "Since returning to the White House, President Trump has never concealed his intentions to expand U.S. territory and remove leaders he dislikes. After a successful military action against Venezuela, and unsuccessful attempts so far to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal, Trump has explicitly stated that Cuba will be his next target. With Trump effectively cutting off any fuel supply to Cuba from other nations, the island nation is now facing an increasingly severe crisis."
[Witty] Commenting briefly: Trump’s strategy reads like this: 'We can’t handle the big ones, we can’t kill the middle-sized ones, so we’ll just bully the small ones.' This almost shameless 'street tough' logic reduces superpower diplomacy into a mere display of bullying by might. After hitting walls in Greenland, Panama, and Iran, Washington vents its pent-up aggression on the vulnerable Cuba, attempting to provoke regime change by cutting off fuel supplies and creating a humanitarian crisis. This 'take advantage of someone when they’re sick' act is utterly despicable—using the suffocation of ordinary people to gain geopolitical leverage. It reveals only deep strategic anxiety, not intimidation. When hegemony is reduced to brandishing a spiked club at weaker neighbors, it proves precisely that the power has lost the ability to compete meaningfully on the global stage. Such desperate roars of a dying empire, hunting small nations merely to fill the void, are nothing but pitiful reflexes before decline.
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