Vietnam allows for free enterprise and freedom of religious worship
Did we wait for them to change their ways before we “normalized” relations? I am not aware that we ever instilled sanctions as stiffly upon Viet Nam as we did upon Cuba, but at some point they were no less Communist in practice, no?
And so does cuba. However it is on a small scale via local markets. If trade opened up that would explode and help pull cuba into our sphere of influence. The old castros brothers are about to kick the bucket so this is the perfect time to bring cuba back to the gleaming capitalist paradise it once was.