{"id":322407,"date":"2026-01-31T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322407"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:27:26","slug":"the-us-is-pushing-so-many-regime-change-agendas-its-hard-to-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=322407","title":{"rendered":"The US Is Pushing So Many Regime Change Agendas It&#8217;s Hard to Keep Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Caitlin Johnstone \u2013 Caitlin\u2019s Newsletter Jan 30, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IWReRJmxIgw\">Reading by Tim Foley<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just incredible how quickly and aggressively the US is advancing longstanding agendas of global conquest under the Trump administration. Now they\u2019re racing to take out Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The US president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/01\/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba\/\">signed an executive order<\/a> to impose new tariffs on countries which supply oil to Cuba, even indirectly, which is expected to dramatically increase the pressure on the already struggling island nation. This comes as Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/yeA7T\">reports<\/a> that \u201cCuba only has enough oil to last 15 to 20 days at current levels of demand and domestic production\u201d after the US cut off the supply from Venezuela and Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2026\/01\/27\/fearing-us-reprisals-mexico-halts-oil-shipment-to-cuba\/\">shelved a planned oil shipment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf1e8\uf1fa JUST IN | President Trump has signed a sweeping executive order declaring Cuba an &#8220;unusual and extraordinary threat&#8221; and authorizing broad new sanctions, including punishing foreign countries that sell oil to the island, even indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the Financial Times\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lp2cJeGxeL\">pic.twitter.com\/Lp2cJeGxeL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DropSiteNews\/status\/2017025377177129445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s order itself contains the usual excuses we\u2019ve come to expect from the empire of propaganda and lies, with its authors babbling without evidence about Hamas and Hezbollah and \u201ctransnational terrorist groups\u201d receiving support from Havana, thereby making this crushing act of siege warfare a self-defense measure implemented in protection of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re being asked to believe that Cuba is Hamas, so Washington needs to strangle it to death in self-defense. The fact that the US has been pursuing regime change in Cuba for generations, we are told, is merely a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>The lies get dumber and dumber with each new imperial power grab. It\u2019s just insulting at this point.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump Plotting Regime Change in Cuba by Year\u2019s End: WSJ<br \/>\nOfficials said the recent abduction of Venezuela\u2019s president provides a \u201cblueprint\u201d for Trump\u2019s plans in Cuba<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarcoRubio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarcoRubio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Venezuela?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Venezuela<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kg2gOtyYB0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Kg2gOtyYB0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Antiwarcom\/status\/2014493202540073065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week The Wall Street Journal published an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/CNu89\">The U.S. Is Actively Seeking Regime Change in Cuba by the End of the Year<\/a>\u201d which cited anonymous senior US officials saying they viewed the operation to remove Maduro from Caracas as a \u201cblueprint\u201d for bringing down Havana.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cEmboldened by the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the Trump administration is searching for Cuban government insiders who can help cut a deal to push out the Communist regime by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe Trump administration has assessed that Cuba\u2019s economy is close to collapse and that the government has never been this fragile after losing a vital benefactor in Maduro, these people said. Officials don\u2019t have a concrete plan to end the Communist government that has held power on the Caribbean island for almost seven decades, but they see Maduro\u2019s capture and subsequent concessions from his allies left behind as a blueprint and a warning for Cuba, senior U.S. officials said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that administration officials have been meeting with \u201cCuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington\u201d with the goal of \u201cidentifying somebody inside the current government who will see the writing on the wall and want to cut a deal,\u201d in a way similar to how assets within the Maduro government were recruited to facilitate his removal.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKBhMoRuZno?si=Wh5xmxZ11g_ocgvB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>In a new segment on Trump\u2019s frenzied efforts to topple Havana, CNN\u2019s Patrick Oppmann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wKBhMoRuZno&amp;t=539s\">reports from Cuba<\/a> that he\u2019s \u201cheard from a US embassy source that diplomats there have been advised to quote \u2018have their bags packed\u2019 as the Trump administration explores new ways to destabilize the communist-run government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US likes to immiserate the populations of targeted nations using economic strangulation with the goal of fomenting unrest and turning people against their leaders. In 2019 Trump\u2019s previous secretary of state Mike Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/caitoz\/status\/2011167228633461012\">openly acknowledged<\/a> that the goal of Washington\u2019s economic warfare against Iran was to make the population so miserable that they \u201cchange the government\u201d, cheerfully citing the \u201ceconomic distress\u201d the nation had been placed under by US sanctions. Economic distress has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/features\/2026\/1\/16\/why-is-irans-economy-failing-prompting-deadly-protests\">widely<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewhumanitarian.org\/news-feature\/2026\/01\/29\/how-economic-collapse-set-stage-iran-deadly-protests\">cited<\/a> as a primary factor in the deadly protests that have rocked Iran in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>&gt;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s last secretary of state Mike Pompeo saying in 2019 that they&#8217;re deliberately causing Iran &#8220;economic distress&#8221; in order to foment an uprising against Tehran, saying he doesn&#8217;t think sanctions will pressure Tehran to change but &#8220;the people can change the government&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NKJDy4Al21\">pic.twitter.com\/NKJDy4Al21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/2011167228633461012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starvation sanctions are the only form of warfare where it is widely considered both normal and ethical to deliberately target a civilian population with deadly force. Deliberately impoverishing an entire nation so that it erupts in conflict and civil war is one of the most evil things you can possibly imagine, but it\u2019s the go-to Plan A for the US empire when it comes to removing foreign leaders who refuse to kiss the imperial boot.<\/p>\n<p>From Palestine to Lebanon to Yemen to Syria to Venezuela to Cuba to Iran, these last couple of years the US has been in a mad scramble to eliminate governments and resistance groups which attempt to insist on their own sovereignty. There\u2019s a new excuse every time, but the end goal is always the same: the furtherance of planetary domination.<\/p>\n<p>The US empire is the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on this planet. If any regime is in need of changing, it\u2019s that one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Caitlin\u2019s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. 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All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/the-us-is-pushing-so-many-regime\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now they are pushing for regime change in Havana. 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