Thanks for listening to The Restis Politics. To support the podcast, listen without the adverts and get early access to episodes and live show tickets, go to therestispolitics.com. That's the rest of this politics question time with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Alice Campbell.

So hundreds of questions, I think even thousands of questions this week.

But I guess I's going to start with Cuba, because that got a couple of questions.

So, for example, Murray asks, with no obvious win for Trump that would allow him to save face in the war with Iran, do you think there's a real possibility he might resort to a distraction strategy, this time by targeting another country

such as Cuba, so Alistair Cuba. So recent events in Cuba, you had this, it does relate to the

capture of Maduro because 32 Cuban security personnel were killed during that raid, which

didn't make Cuba very, very happy.

Trump then quickly goes on to declare that Cuba's estate ready to fail.

Then the oil shipment start to dry up, threats on Mexico.

He threatens more tariffs.

So this really has been a deliberate attempt to strangle Cuba when it comes to its own economy, and particularly

its oil supplies, and this is what's led to several blackouts, and increasing rising rhetoric

from Trump and others in the administration that Cuba is not long for this world.

Yeah, and you've got people like Senator Lindsay Graham out there saying Iran's done Cuba's next. We're mopping them up one by one.

He is such a jerk that guy.

It's a jerk. Marco Rubio is, of course, from Cuban American family. I mean, his parents moved from Cuba, weren't originally American citizens.

Yeah. And so he knows a lot about Cuba.

And of course, he represented the very, very deep Florida, Miami base of Cuban

Americans.

They're only 90 miles, of course, from Cuba at some bits the U.S. coast.

And that constituency very, very strongly engaged in what they do to bring down the regime.

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