After Venezuela and Iran, what’s another U.S. military incursion?
President Donald Trump said a few days ago that he will be “having the honor of taking Cuba” and that he can do “anything” he wants with it, as if Cuba were a property on a Monopoly board and not a sovereign nation.
The president of Cuba said such a scenario would be met with “an impregnable resistance.”
Trump has made good on earlier threats to escalate conflicts, and so his words might compel Cubans to make concessions. U.S. officials have been in talks with Cuban representatives for months to open up Cuba to American businesses, according to The New York Times.
We want a free and democratic Cuba. Trump is a transactional president, not one led by principles, but he might succeed in serving American interests while improving conditions in Cuba by sticking with diplomacy instead of intervening directly to topple the Cuban president.