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CUBA |“I Can Do Anything I Want With It”: Trump’s Cuba Declaration and the Death of International Law

As Cuba’s power grid collapses under a US oil siege and 10 million people are plunged into darkness, Donald Trump’s brazen threat to “take” a Caribbean neighbour lays bare what the region has long suspected — that for Washington, sovereignty is a privilege reserved for the powerful, not a right guaranteed to all.

By Calvin G. Brown | March 17, 2026

On Monday, March 16, 2026, the lights went out across Cuba — all of them. The island’s national electricity grid suffered a complete collapse, leaving 10 million people in total darkness. Hospitals went to backup power. Refrigerators holding what little food families had went silent. And in the Oval Office of the White House, just 90 miles away, Donald Trump told reporters he believed he would have “the honour of taking Cuba.”

Calvin G. Brown Op-Ed
Cuba :“I think I can do anything I want with it. They’re a very weakened nation right now.” — Donald Trump, Oval Office, March 16, 2026
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