# FiveStack: The Realignment Is Here

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Podcast: [FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639)
Published: 2026-05-20T22:20:52+00:00
Episode link: https://www.narativ.org/p/fivestack-the-realignment-is-here
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DEAN BLUNDELL WAS OUT TODAY Five stories led the Fivestack today, and they were not five separate stories. Together they show a government doing two things at once. Abroad, it is redrawing the map. At home, it is rewriting the rules so the people in charge never have to answer for anything. Here is the day, counted down. 5️⃣ The Castro Indictment Is About Cuba, Not 1996 In Miami today, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment of Raúl Castro — Fidel’s younger brother and Cuba’s former president — over the 1996 shootdown of two planes flown by the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Four men died in that attack. It happened thirty years ago. There is no new evidence and no new witness. An indictment like this does not arrive thirty years late for legal reasons. It arrives because someone needs it now. The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, opened the press conference by calling the charges “the first step” of several. What has already happened tells you what the next steps are: a gas blockade choking Cuba’s fuel supply, and a CIA director in Havana over the weekend. A CIA director does not drop into a country being squeezed that hard unless Washington is planning for what comes after the government that runs it. What comes after is the point. Raúl Castro is in his nineties. He will likely never stand trial. He will be removed from Cuba, brought to the United States to face the charges, and the Castro era will end — the same way Venezuela’s ended, with Nicolás Maduro pulled out of his residence and jailed in Brooklyn and a compliant management class left to run the country. This is not a court case. It is Cuba being pried out of the Russian and Chinese orbit and turned into an American client state. Greenland, and Canada should pay attention 4️⃣ Xi Hosts Pu…

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