All right, Alexander, let's talk about Cuba and what is happening with Cuba, the U.S. blockade of Cuba, which is still ongoing, actually.

I mean, we have the blockade in Iran against Iran, but you also have the blockade of Cuba.

And the last video that we recorded, we basically outlined two

different options that Cuba has. One option would be to negotiate with the United States,

to enter the talks with the United States and to figure out a way to exist with the United

States, most likely on the U.S. terms, or that Cuba could move

closer to Bricks, to Russia, to China, given that Venezuela is now out of the equation.

It looks like Cuba, well, I'll just let you give the surprise, the surprise development to all

of this. Yes. I should say, by the way, and before I do that, you know, I think our reporting

of the whole Cuba crisis is being vindicated in important respects in the sense that we were the first

people. The Duran was the first place to highlight the Russian dimension to this. Nobody else

was talking about this a few weeks ago except us, but now it's becoming increasingly clear.

We discussed the options, and they were exactly

the options that you mentioned. The Russians had managed to send a ship, a tanker to break the

plodcade, and it provided Cuba with 750,000 barrels of oil, which obviously helps, but we pointed out that this is only

going to buy a certain amount of time for Cuba, and Cuba needs to make a choice.

Does it use that time to try to negotiate a better deal with the Americans, or does it go

with the Russians?

And the further point we made over the course of that program was that going with the Russians

does come with certain consequences.

The Russians today, though they have great sympathy and emotional feelings about Cuba are not the Soviets,

they're not going to provide economic aid to Cuba for free.

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