A wartime President would be doing everything to keep the price of oil down to send these countries reeling and force Cuba to our terms.
Instead a throws the CUBCOMs a lifeline.
I agree. Why the urgency? What benefit do the Cubans get out of this? I see where it plays to Obama’s Leftist supporters. But what does it do for peace and security and the human rights of Cubans?
Exactly, that's the real point of this "humanitarian" gesture, that has been missed by most observers and commenters. It has nothing to do with the policy "not working" (what does that even mean? If embargo is not "working" how was it supposed to "work" and why did Cuba, which trades with many other Western countries desperately wanted it to end?)
The capo di tutti capi, the Czar of all czars Obama noticed that despite his best efforts to keep oil and gas prices up, the energy market has done so much damage to Russia (and Iran), the main benefactor of rogue and socilaist regimes in this world that he had to bail them out, by trumpeting that the "evil" past and current policies of the USA are "not working" and for "humanitarian" reasons he will simply override them, by creating his own, "legacy"-making one.