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Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis, passing an anniversary remembering the threat of intermediate

range ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads against John Kennedy's America. Here we are

in the 21st century. And I welcome George Friedman. He is the chairman and founder of Geopolitical

Futures, a subscription site that I wholeheartedly recommend at the beginning of another war in Europe

year. But this time, George is taking us to Cuba, to Havana, and a phone call between Vladimir

Putin and the Kremlin and Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canal. George, a very good evening

to you. From my understanding of this phone call, it involved, oh, perhaps the economy

and perhaps oil markets because Cuba's sanction and Russia's sanction. But you introduced

another possibility, the geography favors Russia to poke around in Havana. Why so, George?

Good evening to you. Good evening. And we failed to understand that the Gulf of Mexico is America's

most dangerous point. The majority of American shipping comes out of the Gulf, out of ports

like Beaumont, Texas, and other things there. If you shut the ports down, we have an economic

crisis as the Russians would have if we shut down the Black Sea. Perhaps more so. So one

of the things that could always be done to the United States, if they could be done, is

to block those ports. Cuba, sit to stride all the exits. There are two exits, one to the

north of Cuba, the other to the south of Cuba. And they've, and many occasions, looked

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