Posted on 08/03/2021 5:03:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
resident Joe Biden's first six months in office have been devoted to destroying every successful policy from the previous administration. In fact, Biden has managed to do what many of us thought impossible: make Jimmy Carter look good. In foreign affairs, the president has appeared feckless and weak, emboldening our adversaries and frightening our allies. In domestic affairs, his policies have created a catastrophe on our southern border and caused huge spikes in inflation, violent crime and upheaval over COVID-19 issues.
Biden and his controllers now have a chance to save his presidency from complete failure. It's a cry for help from the Cuban people desperate to throw off the shackles of a Marxist government that has held them in bondage for 62 years. Biden's response to their pleas could well be a turning point in history. And President Ronald Reagan -- not John F. Kennedy -- has provided Biden with a playbook to follow. First, a bit of history.
When Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959, many of the Cuban people believed Castro's canard of a socialist paradise. They soon learned all they did was exchange a right-wing autocrat for a communist dictator.
Castro quickly did what all socialist tyrants do. With guidance and assets from the Soviets, he used his military and secret security services to consolidate power and maintain control over the Cuban population.
But the Soviet Union is no more; the Castro family is gone; the massive and oppressive police state they constructed is bankrupt; and the Cuban people have had enough. They learned the hard way socialism results not in utopia, but in what we warn about in our newly released book, "We Didn't Fight for Socialism."
According to participants, last month's anti-government protests from July 11-16 were precipitated by a deadly nationwide outbreak of the China virus, a lack of vaccines or medical treatment, shortages of every basic need and a dearth of civil freedoms. The protests were a surprise to Washington's power brokers. Despite intensive surveillance and monitoring systems installed throughout Cuba with the help of the People's Republic of China, the regime in Havana was also caught off guard.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel -- Raul Castro's colorless successor as head of state and Cuba's Communist Party -- was "shocked and surprised." But within six days, he responded as expected in a totalitarian socialist state: brutal suppression by pro-government thugs and a nationwide shutdown with "jamming" of social media outlets and cellphone service. By July 17 -- with the death of as many as five protestors -- the regime claimed "la protesta ha terminado."
But the protest isn't over; it has been driven back underground. Hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- have been arrested or worse, but the grievances of the people remain. Herein is Biden's opportunity -- not for another "covert operation" like Kennedy's Bay of Pigs or the use of American military force. Rather, the best thing Biden can do for himself, our country and the people of Cuba is emulate Reagan's engagement with Solidarity.
Reagan's public support for Solidarity's nonviolent struggle against the communist regime in Warsaw, Poland, was carefully coordinated through quiet diplomacy with Pope John Paul II, the only Polish primate in the Roman Catholic Church. The only "covert operation" back then was finding nongovernment entities to provide fax machines to Solidarity so supporters could safely communicate. Hint: Pope Francis is from Latin America.
Biden's staff should study the many other ways Reagan deftly helped Solidarity end communism in Poland, but they better hurry; the U.N. General Assembly meets next month. The Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights needs support for investigating oppression in Cuba.
Following Reagan's "Solidarity" model for Cuba could well save Biden's presidency from complete failure.
Biden does not have the capacity to think beyond what is good for him. He’s not even able to think. His administration is being run by globalists, who do not want Cuba to succeed.
You are 100 percent correct.
Why would he help the Cuban people throw off marxism when he is marching headlong towards it here?
No
Biden only acts as political expediency demands..... he reacts.
He could create a great legacy by invading Cuba ad throwing the communists out but he won’t. He lacks the balls
I am sure that Biden will support the Cuban people every bit as much as Obama supported the people of Iran.
Biden cannot afford to help the Cuban people become free. To do so would alienate his leftist base. They prefer Cubans to live miserable lives under communism than to live happy lives in a free society and thus prove the superiority of capitalism over socialism and communism.
He can’t even spell “right”.
CC
“His administration is being run by globalists,...”
And oligarchs, corruptocrats, and marxists. All vying formtthe biggest piece of the pie as they carve up America.
Can Biden do what’s right. The terms are mutually exclusive.
The only way BeijingBiden could do anything right is to first get away from his controllers, and flip a coin. Anything else is beyond this puppet.
He can’t, and won’t. He is a puppet. His every action is dictated by the powers behind the democrat party. He does what they tell him to do, or he’s fired.
Oliver North makes the mistake of asking if Biden can do what is right. The Biden team’s definition of right is to support a communist dictatorship and to stop any real freedom lovers from getting to the US.
Can Biden
No!
I’m not sure Joe Biden presently has the mental capacity to dress himself in the morning.
If Biden encourages a revolution, Cuban authorities will impose a massive crackdown.
End of story.
Except for 1 million new asylum seeking boat refugees.
Please wake up GOP and Conservatives.
The only people left in Cuba are low skill Africans and Caribs.
When they come to America, they vote 70%-75% Democrat.
These are NOT the 1960 Cubans, who were the professional class and business owners in Cuba.
We can’t invade. We should be pouring gasoline on their fire.
No.
“Oliver North makes the mistake of asking if Biden can do what is right. The Biden team’s definition of right is to support a communist dictatorship and to stop any real freedom lovers from getting to the US.”
True. The Ancien Regime only supports its own kind.
His comparison of Pope John Paul II with Pope Francis misses the mark. Pope John Paul II was anti-Communist. Pope Francis is pro-Communist.
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