The Real Story Behind the Castro Indictment.
Unf*cking The Republic
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4.8 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The charges against Raúl Castro are the pretext for another invasion into a neighboring country in Latin America. Our sick paternalistic attitude toward the LAC region is a cancer on the world, and it’s clearly not in our own power to put an end to it. In this episode, Max discusses the charges, speaks to the Castro regime, the history between our nations after the ‘59 revolution and the hypocrisy of the American media. He appends the piece with a three step plan that would outflank the United States and level the playing field.
Resources
Democracy Now!: Mariela Castro, Daughter of Cuban President, Helps Lead Struggle for LGBTQ Rights in Cuba
Common Dreams: 11,000 Children Among Tens of Thousands ‘Waiting for Surgery’ in Cuba Due to US Blockade
Mother Jones: Trump Has Been Investing in Companies and Then Pumping Them in His Speeches
The Guardian: Trump has created a slush fund of taxpayer money to give to his friends
Yahoo! Finance: Eric Trump says family assets invested in ‘broad market indexes’ — Trump’s own disclosure lists 3,642 individual trades
Wikipedia: Helms–Burton Act
BBC: The deadly plane attack at the centre of Castro’s indictment
Bloomberg: Communist Cuba Is Leaning on Capitalists After Oil Runs Out
U.S. Department of Justice: U.S. Unseals Superseding Indictment Charging Raul Castro and Five Castro Regime Co-Defendants for 1996 Shoot-Down of Brothers to the Rescue Aircraft
Reuters: US plans to indict Cuba’s Raul Castro, US DOJ official says
Council on Foreign Relations: Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign on Cuba, Explained
UNFTR Resources
Essay: The Real Story Behind the Castro Indictment.
Video: Castro Indictment Proves US Plans to Invade Cuba
Episode: Cuba (Not So) Libre.
Episode: The Crypto Heist Happening Right Under Our Noses.
Episode: Little Marco’s Coup D’Etat.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story of a political pundit who looked at the world around him and just said, fuck it. |
| 0:07.7 | Gives the middle finger to authority and says, kiss my ass. |
| 0:11.6 | But instead of a revolution, he started a podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | Just what the world needs. |
| 0:17.6 | He started a podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Another basic white guy who started a podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | But it's fun because he curses. |
| 0:24.6 | All through the podcast |
| 0:26.6 | On the fucking the Republic |
| 0:28.6 | We're his motherfucking podcast. |
| 0:30.6 | Trigger warning, screed incoming. So I'm going to vent for a minute or 15 because |
| 0:42.4 | we're about to apparently arrest a 94-year-old man in Cuba, which is really just the pretext |
| 0:48.2 | for another Maduro-style kidnapping or perhaps a full-scale invasion. So I have a game plan, |
| 0:55.0 | but it's going to be a little less structured than usual, and I am a lot more agitated, though I will do my best to stay composed. |
| 1:00.4 | So here's the general plan. We'll address the charges first. Then we'll talk about Raoul Castro, |
| 1:05.7 | who's no saint, and I never claimed he was. Then we'll go through our toxic relationship since the revolution |
| 1:11.7 | began in Cuba, our backwards understanding of how the world actually works, and then I'll go |
| 1:17.0 | through a specific three-point plan for how the world can help us, because we're trapped. |
| 1:27.5 | So we have a 94-year-old former head of state, a man who hasn't held formal power in almost two decades, |
| 1:34.4 | and the U.S. Department of Justice under Todd Blanche has just released a federal indictment |
| 1:40.2 | against this guy in Miami. |
| 1:42.5 | The charges are a conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, |
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