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The regime can still police Cuba but can no longer power or feed it. Washington's blockade has stripped every economic lifeline, leaving location as Havana's last card.
The regime still polices the street but can no longer power, feed, or clean its capital, the gap between claimed authority and real capacity that erodes a government fastest.
Havana is renting out the one asset sanctions cannot reach, a Chinese listening post ninety miles from Florida, even as it bargains with Washington for fuel relief.
Cuba is running the Special Period playbook again, wagering that austerity and repression can outlast a patron collapse as they did after the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
Washington closed the last commercial fuel gap, sanctioning the state oil company and the president himself while foreign firms fled the island. Havana answered not with reform but by completing a Chinese-backed signals site at Bejucal, cashing in its geography as every other lifeline closed.
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Russia Delivers Oil to Cuba Amid US Blockade Reversal Signal
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Construction of New Antenna Array Completed at Bejucal SIGINT Site in Cuba
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