🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Angela 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🚨 “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST…” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

🇨🇺 Cuba’s second nationwide blackout this week as U.S. blocks fuel for over 3 months Cuba’s 11 million people were plunged into a second nationwide blackout this week after the U.S. blocked nearly all oil shipments to the island since January, leaving the country without fuel for more than three months. Tanker traffic has nearly stopped under Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign, with all major shipments intercepted, delayed, or forced to reroute. The last confirmed delivery was January 9: ~85,000 barrels from Mexico. ➤ Fuel shipments blocked or diverted: 🔹 Ocean Mariner (mid-Feb): carrying Colombian fuel oil; intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard roughly 70 miles off Cuba, preventing delivery 🔹 Gas Exelero (Feb): spent five days attempting to secure fuel in Curaçao but failed to obtain cargo and left empty 🔹 Sea Horse (March): Hong Kong-flagged tanker carrying ~190,000–200,000 barrels of Russian-origin diesel loaded via ship-to-ship transfer in the Mediterranean; idled in the Atlantic for weeks before diverting toward Trinidad 🔹 LNG tanker: carrying ~27,000 metric tons of gas; rerouted away from Cuba to Venezuela to avoid U.S. sanctions ➤ Vessels now attempting to reach Cuba: 🔹 Anatoly Kolodkin: sanctioned Russian tanker carrying ~730,000 barrels of crude; currently ~3,000 nautical miles out in the Atlantic; expected early April; could provide only short-term relief if delivered 🔹 Escort presence: the tanker is accompanied by a Russian naval destroyer, underscoring the geopolitical stakes as Moscow tests U.S. enforcement 🔹 Russian naval oiler: traveling with the flotilla; U.S. officials say its cargo is too limited to significantly ease shortages ➤ Impact of fuel collapse: 🔹 Multiple nationwide blackouts in March, including the second this week 🔹 A 29-hour grid collapse earlier this week left millions without power 🔹 Airports ran out of jet fuel by mid-February, grounding most international flights 🔹 Trash collection has largely stopped in Havana as diesel supplies ran out

🇶🇦🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️NOW: A massive fire at Qatar's Ras Laffan refinery following after Iranian strikes.