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But just because these crises can be attributed to external forces doesn’t mean that every decision of the state has been correct or that every mistake has been inevitable. Nor does it mean that we, as US socialists, should be apathetic to the internal issues and debates of Cuban socialism while we narrowly focus on our own ruling class. To truly learn from the revolution, and to arm ourselves with the best analysis and messaging to fight the embargo at home, we must learn from the whole of this socialist project’s successes and failures.

The discourse around DSA’s delegation and our relationship with the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) ultimately distracts us from the central duty of socialists who live inside the belly of the US imperial beast: to dismantle the embargo imposed on the Cuban people for pursuing a socialist anti-colonial revolution.

Christ, it's good that we work in such a low-functioning environment, because you're all so soy that any heat and pressure would straight up turn you into tofu.

And yet, an increasing number of establishment strategic analysts warn that Israel could lose this war on Palestinians despite the cataclysmic violence it unleashed since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7. And in provoking the Israeli assault, Hamas may be realizing many of its own political objectives.

By simultaneously staging dramatic, high-profile attacks on more than 100 targets across the country on a single day, lightly armed Vietnamese guerrillas shattered the illusion of success that was being peddled to the US public by the Johnson administration. It signaled to Americans that the war for which they were being asked to sacrifice tens of thousands of their sons was unwinnable.

Hamas’s concept of military victory…is all about driving long-term political outcomes. Hamas sees victory not in one year or five, but from engaging with decades of struggle that increase Palestinian solidarity and increase Israel’s isolation.

American crude oil production reached a fresh all-time high of 13.2mn barrels a day in September, according to figures released last week, more than any other country and accounting for about one in eight barrels of global output.

The US accounts for 80 per cent of the expansion in global oil supply this year, according to the International Energy Agency.

“The US presenting itself as a climate champion at COP is largely a facade, considering it is the biggest oil and gas producer in the world,” said Raena Garcia, senior fossil fuels campaigner at Friends of the Earth.

“I think what we see in the US is the recognition that a balance has to be struck here,” said Darren Woods, Exxon chief executive, who this week attended the UN climate summit for the first time.