New Cuba report says the real target was never capital — it was Western civilization itself. Susan Kokinda traces the fight buried after Casablanca, and why Hamiltonian economics, not anti-communism, is the antidote.
This episode examines a new State Department report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” and argues it points to a present threat rather than a Cold War rerun: Cuba’s influence on left-wing and terrorist networks in the U.S. and the Americas, and the shift from Soviet-style communism to Third Worldism, which targets Western civilization itself. Susan Kokinda traces the movement’s post-Soviet evolution through the 1990 São Paulo Forum and its use of parties, NGOs, cultural institutions and narco-terror financing, while showing that Western establishment institutions like the Inter-American Dialogue engaged rather than opposed it. She then contrasts Roosevelt’s Casablanca vision of development with British imperial extraction, and argues the Cold War erased that fight. The antidote is a revival of Hamiltonian “American System” economics — linked here to J.D. Vance’s comments and to Morocco’s “Donald J. Trump Highway” as development in practice.
President Trump’s Truth Social post on the President Donald J. Trump Highway in Morocco: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116986582428363613
00:00 The Monday Brief – State Department Just Admitted the Real Target Was Never Capitalism
02:02 Cuba Is Chapter One
06:18 The Fight that Got Buried
09:05 The Antidote
