U.S. pressure on Cuba amounts to collective punishment — cutting off oil has plunged ordinary Cubans into 15-hour blackouts, food shortages and economic collapse, following the same old playbook of regime change from within. However, in the case of Cuba, this strategy has repeatedly failed, from Kennedy’s embargo to Bush’'s travel restrictions. The Cuban Communist Party is far more durable than Maduro’'s fractured government ever was, making Trump’'s regime-change fantasy a costly delusion.