U.S. will let Russian oil tanker reach Cuba, breaking Trump's effective fuel blockade
Source: Washington Post
With a Russian tanker loaded with crude oil nearing Cuba, President Donald Trump said late Sunday he would not enforce his effective blockade against fuel supplies to the island.
“If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem, whether it’s Russia … and if other countries want to do it,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington from a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago home.
“It’s not going to have an impact,” Trump said. “Cuba’s finished … whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”
The approach of the Russian-owned tanker Anatoly Kolodkin over the weekend set up a test of the Trump administration’s will to block fuel for Cuba — and how far the Kremlin is willing to go to help its longtime ally 90 miles from U.S. territory.
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