The United States’ foreign policy toward Cuba has once again displayed, in recent days, its classic contradiction: the rhetoric of absolute crushing clashes with the reality of a country that, no matter how much it is suffocated, refuses to submit. The arrival of the Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at the port of Matanzas, with 730,000 barrels of crude oil, is not only a breath of fresh air for an island mired in an unprecedented energy crisis. It is, above all, a symptom of the labyrinth into which Donald Trump has fallen by trying to simultaneously play the role of the ruthless hawk and the pragmatic negotiator.