Cuba Is Crumbling

All eyes are on Iran, and rightly so, given the scale and scope of the conflict. 

But the world doesn’t stop just because we have limited ability to pay attention to all the important things that are happening, and one of the most important right now is the imminent collapse of the Cuban regime. 

Freedom and hope are contagious.

It’s a chain reaction. The people of Syria saw Sinwar defeated. The people of Venezuela saw Assad fall. The people of Iran saw Maduro arrested. The people of Lebanon and Cuba have seen Khamenei fall.

The world is changing. https://t.co/jvyHnyhBDG

— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 9, 2026

Most people understand that Cuba has been a thorn in the side of the United States for nearly 70 years, but few really understand the extent to which the communist country has been a destabilizing force not just in the region, but in the world. 

Cuban troops have shown up in conflicts around the world, and the country has allied with just about every anti-American regime for its entire existence. It was born in a totalitarian violence, has been sustained by brutal repression, and has only survived by living off the generosity of the worst regimes in the world. 

The Cuban Regime Has a Growing Problem — and It’s Not Just Trump and Rubio | Sarah Anderson, PJ Media

The Cuban people have had enough, and they’re not afraid to show it any longer. On both Friday and Saturday nights, they took to the streets, banging pots and pans, shouting,… pic.twitter.com/h0ZSKdVEfn

— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) March 9, 2026

The Cuban people have had enough, and they’re not afraid to show it any longer. On both Friday and Saturday nights, they took to the streets, banging pots and pans, shouting, building barricades, and lighting bonfires, both for light and to signal how upset they are with the communist regime that has left them living in poverty and squalor. As time marches on, more and more join the protests. It’s been something to watch on social media over the weekend. The protests seemed to have started in various neighborhoods in Havana but have since spread to other cities in multiple provinces.

They’re shouting, “Down with communism,” “Fire the dictatorship,” and, my favorite, “Long live Trump.” I’ve also seen videos of messages painted on the country’s crumbling buildings.

To quote Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.): “When people lose their fear, dictatorships begin to fall.”

And that’s exactly what’s happening. Whether they’re feeling emboldened by Donald Trump’s language that the Cuban regime will fall soon — and seeing what he has done for Venezuela and Iran — or they’ve simply reached the point where they don’t care is to be determined. I imagine it’s a little of both. I have numerous Cuban connections, and I hear constantly that since Trump took out Nicolás Maduro and began talking about Cuba being next, there’s a lot of growing hope on an island that doesn’t have much else to hope for.

But the people also have plenty of reason to be at a point where they don’t care what the regime might do to them if they’re caught protesting. Blackouts in Cuba have been the norm for years, but over the past week, a failure at Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric power plant left most of the country without electricity. While some has been restored, a lot of it has not, and after three or four days without power with no end in sight, I imagine you get a little angry. Throw in major food and medicine shortages, little to no running water, garbage lining the streets, preventable medical epidemics, hospitals canceling procedures, babies dying, and the fact that you can’t get fuel for your car, and I imagine you get a lot angry.

It feels like a real turning point, though based on everything Trump says, the people won’t have to wait too much longer for help to arrive. Real help. As I reported a few days ago, countries like Mexico are sending humanitarian aid, which the regime is taking and re-selling wholesale in military stores where it can only be bought with U.S. dollars.

When the Soviet Union fell, much of the aid to Cuba dried up, but over the years, other countries have stepped in to subsidize the regime. But with the downfall of Maduro and the distraction of China and Russia by their own concerns, there is nobody left to save the regime from its mismanagement of the economy and its unpopularity with the public. 

Translation: I don’t want to die. https://t.co/z5OBWF6G2c

— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) March 7, 2026

Cuban leaders are now looking to Donald Trump and Marco Rubio to pull their chestnuts out of the fire, which has to be one of the funniest parodies in a world filled with absurdities. 

“Please make a deal with us.” Uh, no. Trump wants the communists gone and a Cuba Libre. Not literally, of course, since Trump doesn’t drink. But a free Cuba would have him raise a Diet Coke in a toast. 

Trump: “Cuba’s at the end of the line… they have a bad regime that’s been bad for a long time.” pic.twitter.com/f7xLtLa7d6

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) March 7, 2026

Trump is fundamentally reshaping the entire world order, taking out the worst of the anti-American and anti-Western regimes. 

And, contrary to the Narrative™ of the Left, most of the world outside the transnational elite and our avowed enemies seems to be quite happy with these developments. The Middle Eastern countries are aligning with us, and in Latin America, quite a few leaders have joined with Trump’s “Shield of the Americas.”

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— Edwin Schindler (@edwinschindler) March 9, 2026

It’s impossible to predict exactly when the Cuban regime will fall, but it will almost certainly do so. It is quite possible that Trump will have taken out Maduro, the Islamists in Iran, and the Cuban communists all in the space of 6-9 months. 

Countries that have been enemies of the United States for decades will have been turned into neutrals or allies and trading partners. And it is almost as likely that nominal allies that have strayed away from their attachment to the United States will return to the fold with new elections. 

“Trump is choking the life out of the city”

The city in question for the last 67 years. https://t.co/Nkxhf8ol6M pic.twitter.com/UDXAgcXQuu

— BellaliberTea (@bellaliberteaa) March 9, 2026

It’s way too early to know how all this will turn out, but if things go on as they have been, the realignment we are seeing now will be as significant as the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

And it is driving the transnational elite nuts. 

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