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Cuba Hit With National Power Grid Collapse As Oil Sources Dry Up

Cuba’s power grid collapsed once again this week, this time at a national level, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity.  This is the sixth time since the US cut off fuel sources to the island since January that the national grid has collapsed and it's the most utility shutdown events in the country's recent history.  

Even when Cuba's grid is in operation, only 30% of the population at most receives electricity at any given time.  Many regions stay dark 20 to 30 hours at a stretch. Some provinces have reported 60–90 hours without power. Havana has gone from 4 hours a day early in the year to 18 hours after the fuel cutoff. 

"Protocols are now in place to begin ​the gradual restoration of the system," said Felix Estrada, an ⁠official with Cuba's National Electrical Union (UNE). Power had returned to a handful of ​scattered neighborhoods in Havana by late evening, primarily around hospitals, but much of ​the city remained completely dark.

Many exhausted residents ​of the capital Havana were already without power when the national blackout hit.

"Yesterday I'd gone without ‌power ⁠for 24 hours. They turned the lights on for an hour, and then the grid collapsed," said Frank Lorenzo, a 23-year-old Havana resident.

Around 61% of Cuba's oil was sourced from Venezuela until the US capture of illegitimate president Nicolas Maduro.  Shipments from Mexico have were also scaled back and then cut off.  Russia has sent only one tanker so far this year. 

Reports of a "shadow fleet" of tankers carrying Iranian oil to Cuba have circulated since at least 2020.  Investigations of the seized tanker "Skipper" in 2025 found it had previously carried Iranian oil to Syria and China, then later moved Venezuelan oil on a route tied to Cuba. It confirmed the existence of overlapping Iran–Venezuela–Cuba shipping networks. 

The US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has proven incredibly effective in shutting down Iranian oil exports, leaving Iran's clandestine trade partners high and dry.  

The communist regime has operated as a hub for Chinese, Russian and Iranian operations including intel operations in the western hemisphere for decades.  Along with Venezuela, Cuba has represented a hostile eastern foothold in America's backyard.  The Trump Administration also accuses the Cuban government of engaging in propaganda programs in the US, working with far-left organizations (including Antifa and Democratic Socialists) to organize activist subversion to undermine national stability.   

Cuba reports limited negotiations with US officials and has largely pandered to the American media in the hopes of winning favor in the court of public opinion.  As with Iran, Trump seems to be playing the long game, waiting for Cuba to economically falter before entering into serious talks.  The frequency of power outages on the island nation is increasing and it will be difficult for Cuba to continue functioning for much longer. 

Without an industrial base, agriculture and basic utilities, internal breakdown is inevitable.    

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They're Telling Us A Major War Is Coming...

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

The British government is dusting off a classified Cold War manual, telling households to stockpile tins and bottled water at home, while state media is putting out articles debating whether the country is mentally prepared for war.

The classified Government War Book is being rewritten for the first time since 2004. The old document set out how ministries would keep food moving, communications open and government itself functioning if conflict reached the homeland.

After the Cold War it was mothballed. It is now being revived as part of a Home Defence Programme that officials say will align military and civilian responses if international hostilities hit the UK mainland.

?? Britain is dusting off its old "war book" and telling the public to start preparing for the possibility of serious disruption, including keeping canned food and drinking water at home.

The government is updating emergency plans that haven't been revised in decades, while the...

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 18, 2026

Households are being told to prepare to go without power, water or the internet. The Cabinet Office checklist is blunt: bottled water, non-perishable food, essential medicines, a first-aid kit, a torch, a power bank, spare batteries and a wind-up or battery radio.

One official, speaking to the Financial Times, insisted the campaign would not be "duck and cover." "There will be practical advice on things you can do to improve domestic resilience, like having some bottled water and tinned food. It will be common sense, not scaremongering."

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Chief Secretary Darren Jones put the same line to MPs: "The government will do all it can and we are well prepared - but we can all play our part to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe. This campaign will help the public to take small but important steps to be prepared in case of emergencies and disruption - be that severe weather or a cyber-attack, which can impact access to power, water, or phone signal."

The plans are due to be stress-tested in 2027 in Exercise Albiston Shadow, described as the largest home defence drill in decades. Ministers and hundreds of officials will role-play a multi-day crisis built around hybrid attacks - cyber disruption, sabotage, interference and disinformation - rather than tanks on Whitehall. Some home-defence work has reportedly been pulled forward from 2035 toward 2030.

Armed Forces minister Louise Sandher-Jones framed the whole package around Moscow: "Russia is not only a threat to NATO's eastern flank. It is a direct threat to the UK homeland and these exercises, together with important measures like updating our 'War Books', will help prepare us to meet that threat, as well as showing the British public how seriously we are taking it."

Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton has said the same in plainer language. "In my 35-year career, this is the most dangerous period that I have known." He added that "the risks and threats to this country are greater than I have known since the Cold War," that Russia is "probing, challenging, testing our defences," and that "society and all of us" may have to accept "different choices and different priorities."

The BBC this week pushed the mood further. "War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?" asked correspondent Allan Little, noting the stockpile drive and the War Book rewrite.

War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? https://t.co/dARsGoVRpK

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 17, 2026

Historian Margaret MacMillan told the BBC: "It's not the tanks you need to worry about. It's the cutting of cables on the ocean floor. It's the hacking into systems on which so many things depend." After 80 years without war on British soil, she said, "I don't think we are psychologically prepared."

Retired general Sir Richard Shirreff compared the moment to "those Edwardian summers before 1914, when there was a lot of talk of war but the notion of actually going to war seemed so far-fetched as to be beyond belief."

That is the version of events ministers talk about in public. It is not the only reading.

In 2025, Professor David Betz of King's College London, a specialist in modern and unconventional war, argued that Whitehall is hardening the homeland against domestic fracture while using a Russian invasion narrative as political cover.

Pointing to the 2025 National Security Strategy line that Britain must "actively prepare for the possibility of the UK homeland coming under direct threat," Betz said the apprehension is real - and internal.

"But that's not external in origin, that's internal, and that has to do with the way our society is now configured, it is highly fractured." He described "low trust, highly fractured, and highly politically factionalised which is leading us increasingly inevitably into civil conflict."

On the invasion talk he was dismissive: "The fact of the matter is there is a great distance between us and Russia... we are not militarily threatened in a direct way on the ground by any obvious external enemy, even Russia... one of those is not occupying the village green with Russian soldiers, that simply, frankly, is a rather bizarre assertion."

The politically unsayable part, in his account, is this: "What they're concerned about is domestic conflict, and they perfectly understand this, but that's completely politically toxic for them to say so publicly." A citizen force to guard infrastructure sold as anti-Russian preparation is, he said, "a logically absurd proposition, but it is convenient as a pretext."

Elon Musk has also said as much. In a July clash with The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes he called civil conflict in Britain a "reckoning" on present trends. "If you have a large and growing, rapidly growing, group of people whose beliefs are antithetical to western beliefs, at some point there will be a reckoning."

Beddoes reached for the "far right" smear. Musk's reply: "No, I support the NORMAL people. What you call the far right FALSELY." He added he is "against rape and murder" and "against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we've come to accept in the West."

Stockpiles, War Books and "whole of society" drills fit a foreign hybrid-war briefing. They also fit a state that no longer trusts continuity of basic services in a low-trust, factional country - and will not name the policies that produced that state.

The contradiction is sitting in plain sight. Days ago the same government posture that talks up existential danger was still starving the force that would have to fight.

The British Army has been ordered to pause most "non-essential" collective training for UK-based units on standby - live-fire work, armour and Apache drills - because the Ministry of Defence's day-to-day budget cannot cover fuel and ammunition at current prices.

Only a sliver of units are deployed. The surface fleet has shrunk from nearly 50 fighting vessels two decades ago to around 22. Defence spending rises on paper are eaten by inflation. Welfare spending is up 16 per cent in five years. The military is told not to raid health or education to fill a hole of roughly £1.4 billion a year.

A state that cannot fund tank training is not "war-ready." A state that tells families to buy their own water while it funds mass settlement and the welfare load that follows is not serious about cohesion either. Sir Richard wants "different choices and different priorities." Those choices keep landing on tins in the cupboard, not on borders, remigration or a force that can actually fight.

Andrew Michta, a strategic studies professor, told the BBC the deeper problem is mental as much as material: "The UK is also largely disarmed and, most importantly, mentally. There is no readiness for what's happening because the policy elites are not addressing their publics in a way that would honestly state the gravity of the situation."

The gravity they will name is Moscow. The gravity they will not name is a society they helped pull apart, then briefed to stockpile against the dark. The War Book can be rewritten. The cover story writes itself.

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Tyler Durden Sat, 09/19/2026 - 11:40

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