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⚠️🚨BREAKING — CUBA NEARING TOTAL ENERGY COLLAPSE, “OPTION ZERO” warning issued by Cuban government‼️
Reports from within Cuba indicate the government has issued an emergency Civil Defense communiqué warning of the imminent activation of “Option Zero.” The warning was reportedly distributed via SMS to the Cuban population, advising citizens to immediately prepare for a nationwide collapse of fuel supplies and electrical generation. Officials warn remaining fuel reserves could be fully depleted within hours, with a 98% probability that the country will enter a full national energy shutdown this weekend.
If activated, “Option Zero” represents a worst-case national emergency scenario in which the Cuban state can no longer sustain normal economic or civilian infrastructure, effectively halting normal civilian life across the island.
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Immediate National Impacts Expected
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Transportation
• Public transportation would cease almost entirely
• Long-distance travel suspended
• Remaining fuel reserved for emergency services and military
Electricity
• Nationwide power outages likely
• Electricity prioritized for hospitals and critical infrastructure
• Households may face 24+ hours without electricity
Water
• Water pumping systems expected to fail without electrical power
• Citizens instructed to immediately store water supplies
Food
• National rationing system expected to tighten further
• Refrigeration chains likely to fail
• Food distribution prioritized for strategic facilities
Communications
• Cell networks and internet services may degrade or fail as base stations lose power
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Strategic Context
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Cuba’s power grid has been under severe stress for years, driven by:
• Aging thermoelectric plants
• Chronic fuel shortages
• Limited foreign currency for imports
• Declining Venezuelan oil shipments
• Severe infrastructure degradation
• Recent sanctions and restrictions impacting critical supply imports
Blackouts have already become routine across much of the island, with some regions experiencing 12–18 hour daily outages in recent months.
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DSG Assessment
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If the government proceeds with activating Option Zero, it would signal one of the most severe systemic infrastructure failures in Cuba since the 1990s “Special Period.”
Potential consequences could include:
• Large-scale humanitarian strain or crisis
• Severe disruption to food and water distribution
• Heightened risk of civil unrest, possibly acting as a catalyst for regime change
• Increased migration pressure across the Caribbean region
⚠️ The next 24–48 hours will likely determine whether Cuba enters a full national energy emergency. The situation has the potential to deteriorate rapidly over the coming days.
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📡 Source: Information provided by and verified through a DSG follower and channel administrator with family currently inside Cuba.
If you are located in Cuba or have family there who can provide verified information regarding developments, please contact us
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The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.” While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover.
When the Principal woke up that day, he never thought he would be tackling a gunman.
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🇨🇳🛢 How much strategic oil does the world actually have in reserve?
Global strategic crude oil inventories stood at ~2.5 BILLION barrels as of December 2025, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
China holds by far the largest stockpile at 1,397 million barrels, more than 3 times the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 413 million barrels, which itself sits at only 58% of its full storage capacity of 714 million barrels.
China added an average of 1.1 million barrels per day to its strategic inventories throughout 2025, with preliminary data suggesting it continued building stockpiles in early 2026 ahead of the Iran War.
Japan holds the 3rd-largest reserve at 263 million barrels, followed by OECD European countries at 179 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the US is releasing 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to suppress oil prices, part of a broader 400 million barrel coordinated release agreed by 32 IEA member nations in March.
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🛢 JP Morgan Warns Oil Market Out of Balance, Prices Must Rise
🔸The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows, has removed 13.7 million barrels per day from global supply in April alone. A JP Morgan research note warns the market has no good way to replace it.
🔸Normally, spare production capacity in Saudi Arabia and the UAE acts as the market’s shock absorber. But that buffer has effectively been removed, eliminating the system’s first line of defense.
🔸With spare capacity unavailable, markets turned to inventories
➤ Global stockpiles are now being drained at ~7.1 mbd in April, an extraordinary pace, according to the note.
🔸Meanwhile, demand is collapsing because supply simply isn’t reaching users — “forced demand destruction.”The hardest hit sectors include:
▪️ Petrochemical plants across Asia are shutting down or slashing output as LPG, ethane, and naphtha flows from the Gulf collapse
▪️ Airline jet fuel ...
🛢⛽️ Global oil inventories are heading toward RECORD LOWS:
Global visible oil inventories have fallen -255 million barrels since the start of the conflict on February 27, to 7,864 million barrels.
Total estimated oil draws, including non-OECD refined products storage, have accelerated to 10.9 million barrels per day in April, the largest monthly draws on record since 2017.
Cumulative estimated draws since the start of the war now stand at 474 million barrels, with Hormuz flows holding at ~10% of normal, or 2.0 million barrels per day.
Meanwhile, even in an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows begin recovering by late April, it is unlikely to prevent global visible inventories from reaching all-time lows, according to Goldman Sachs.
As inventories keep falling, physical oil markets are likely to require sharply higher prices for immediate delivery, since buyers cannot wait months for cheaper futures delivery when stocks are running critically low.
Goldman also warns...
