Posted on 02/28/2019 9:11:09 AM PST by Hojczyk
Last Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made clear who the sanctions targeted: “We’re aimed at a singular mission: ensuring that the Venezuelan people get the democracy that they so richly deserve and that the Cubans and Russians, who have been driving this country into the ground for years and years, no longer hold sway.”
The Wall Street Journal said that the policy of replacing Maduro with a friendly Guaidó who would then shut down his country’s flow of crude to Cuba was intentional:
[Trump’s foreign policy advisors] have long believed Cuba to be the more serious national-security threat. They cite Cuba’s intelligence operations in the U.S., and its efforts to spread anti-American views to other Latin American countries….
After Venezuela and Cuba, U.S. officials are eyeing Nicaragua.
Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton, made Trump’s South American intentions clear in a speech last November: “The United States looks forward to watching each corner of the triangle fall: In Havana, in Caracas, in Managua … [this] Troika of tyranny … will crumble.”
As Ted Henken, an expert on Cuba at Baruch College in New York, explained: “Cuba has limped along for the past 15 years thanks … to its relationship with Venezuela.”
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And that’s what has the Left quaking in their boots.
Maduro is small change, Cuba is the big prize.
Done with sanctions, and other economic or political pressures...fine. Just so long as it doesn’t involve military “intervention” for “regime change.”
I have often wondered why America would allow this little island, so close to them, to remain communist for so long. It should be an easy conversion.
With that little Marco has my permission to go full bore on the Communists. I only wish Fidel was alive to watch his baby collapse. Throw gasoline on the fire. What’s Russia gonna do?
Venezuelan people get the democracy that they so richly deserve
They wanted socialism and they got it, good and hard.
Part of the problem is that the Cuban government has so effectively squelched any internal opposition.
I think though, that is very soon going to change.
Raul should not be given asylum anywhere.
I suspect there’s going to be a quid pro quo deal with the Russkies.
They stay out of Cuba and Venezuela, and we agree hands off with Ukraine.
I’ll take that deal.
Supposedly Cuba has a new President, but he’s Raul’s puppet.
Raul can die in Moscow.
I doubt Cuba will go. It’s pretty entrenched.
As long as people can eat and are not being rounded up they tend to be more peaceful. The Caribbean way of life is "slow" so not working or not having opportunities is not an issue and their are plenty of fish to eat rum to drink an cigars to smoke.
I predict fairly soon there’s going to be a big beautiful Trump Casino in Havana.
I think we need to get rid of the local Communists first, before worrying about other countries.
Dubya Bush got a GOP house and a GOP senate in the 2002 mid term elections. The Soviets were defunct, yet Bush chose to honor an agreement with a government that no longer existed rather than take Cuba out of communism. He did bupkis.
raul castro is 86 years old. He and his brother out ran 7 presidents, while we traded with China and it’s community dictators. In short they won. You think an old man gives two shits about your opinion.
We have to get over our inability to change Cuba. When Castro dies, Cuba may or may not change and it will have nothing to do with your opinion.
Cuba has had 60 years to cement-in-place a full-scale communist command system, from top to bottom. Every person is Cuba is tied to the state, its services, its punishments, its informants - in every way.
Venezuela still has opposition parties, private business, opposition newspapers, etc... Even though all these are being destroyed, they weren’t at all close the total communist dystopia that Cuba is.
Changing Cuba will be extremely difficult and to think it will follow Venezuela is a gross over-simplification.
My opinion matters as much as yours and is worth what we pay each other. I say find that interrogator who beat the snot out of McCain in the Hanoi Hilton. Then prosecute those that enforced Fidel’s edicts. Give them asylum in Russia.
Socialism makes people lazy and devoid of creative thought and ambition. A Revolution takes a lot of energy, energy the people who do little work have an appetite for. There is only one way Cubans can individually profit and that is if they had a tourist economy. Right now it's still a sh*thole, or so people who have recently visited tell me. Once the country opens up it will take only one generation to turn things around.
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