that’s because you have a brain. One would need to be missing that mass in the head to think that was a good idea. isolating and challenging the USSR is what brought it down. But I’m sure now that we’re opening up to cuba everything should be fine there /s
Cuba is another story. I am not a fan of opening up to them until they throw off their communist yoke. But, at least they do not have the potential to be a superpower (as China does).