Russia plans to send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba, the Russian energy minister has said, as the Caribbean nation struggles under a crippling United States blockade.
Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said on Thursday that the cargo was being loaded and would be brought to Cuba.
“Cuba is in a total blockade; it’s been cut off. Whose shipment of oil made it? A Russian vessel broke through the blockade,” Tsivilev said, referring to a first Russian tanker that reached the island earlier this week.
“A second one is being loaded right now. We will not leave Cubans alone in trouble.”
i learned the other day that the previous tanker ship was escorted by 2 russian naval vessels and clearly meant as an insurance in case trump chose to escalate the situation in an environment where the world using russian oil as a crutch to survive.
it makes me wonder about why none of these articles bother to mention the military escort.
because otherwise it would make it more obvious that the us is facing defeat