It's the Brian Lear Show. I'm producer Amina Serna filling in for Brian today.

We're joined now by Nahal Tusi, senior foreign affairsent and columnist at Politico. Her recent column

argues that the Trump administration is increasingly willing to carry out military strikes

against Cuba in a significant escalation from the economic and diplomatic pressure campaign

that had prevailed in recent months. Her piece was published on Sunday. Then, in the

48 hours since, excuse me, two major developments appeared to confirm the trajectory she described.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump's Justice Department unsealed a federal indictment of 94-year-old

former Cuban President Raul Castro on murder charges relatedment of 94-year-old former Cuban President Raul Castro on

murder charges related to a 1996 shooting down of a plane piloted by four Americans. CBS News reported

that the Pentagon and Defense Intelligence Agency have begun developing military operations for the president. So the question

might no longer be whether Cuba is in the Trump administration's crosshairs, but rather what

comes next. Nahal joins us now. Welcome to, welcome to WMIC. Hey, it's great to be here. Thank you.

So the headline of your Sunday column

was pretty blunt. Quote, yes, Trump might really attack Cuba. We'll get into what sources have

told you is on the table in terms of military options. But first, this comes after several months

of the U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba. We've reported on that on this show before, of the U.S.'s pressure campaign against Cuba.

We've reported on that on this show before how the U.S.'s oil blockade has devastated the island.

A New York Times contributor recently referred to the situation as a, quote, man-made humanitarian crisis.

So first, can you put this into context for us and why the Trump administration

doesn't think its campaign is working? Yeah. So, you know, if you'd asked me just two,

maybe three months ago, whether the administration was willing to use military strikes

or was going to, I would have said no. My sense of things at the time was they went into this, definitely wanting a major change

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