In the medieval era, deprivation was the deadliest weapon.

Dramatic battle scenes like the ones you see in Hollywood movies, where hundreds of soldiers storm the walls of a castle, were more the exception than the norm.

Too dangerous, too costly.

Instead, armies preferred to encircle their enemies and starve them out.

They'd build walls of their own to keep supplies from reaching the besieged fortress.

They'd dig trenches, divert streams, to cut off the water supply.

One of the longest recorded sieges in history, at Kenworth Castle, in England, lasted a full six months.

But that was nothing compared to the nationwide siege warfare.

The Trump administration is now waging against Cuba.

On January 29th of this year, Trump announced a de facto oil blockade against the island nation. He threatened to slap

harsh tariffs on any country which directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to

Cuba. In February, the Russian tanker Seahorse abruptly diverted its course from Cuba. It was carrying more than 200,000

barrels of oil the Cuban people had been counting on. Since then, widespread electric blackouts

have become a regular occurrence. People can't refrigerate their food. Garbage is piling up in the streets, since there's no fuel for trucks to collect it.

And preventable disease is spreading.

Worst of all, doctors in Havana report that over 3,000 people who rely on dialysis machines to stay alive

are now at risk of dying from loss of power. Words like

sanctions and restrictions really don't capture the reality here. This is an undeclared economic war,

and it's a lethal one. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio want to bring about regime change in Cuba.

They say it openly.

They've demanded that President Miguel Diaz-Cannell resign from office.

So they're inflicting as much pain and suffering on the Cuban people as they can,

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