These days, when Donald Trump is not sanctioning the US bombing of a primary school in Iran using Tomahawk missiles, threatening to annex Greenland, threatening NATO for not enthusiastically assisting in the un-blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, or body-blocking the release of additional Epstein files, he’s fantasising about “taking Cuba.”
While speaking to reporters a few days ago, he said taking over the small socialist island that resides just less than 500 kilometers off the coast of Florida would be a great honour: “Whether I free it, take it—I think I can do anything I want with it.” One thing is for sure: what Donald Trump wants with Cuba is not to liberate Cubans from an oppressive regime. If he did, he would have been far more reticent to place an oil and fuel embargo on the socialist nation following his early January attack on Venezuela, and would not have threatened any nation intending to supply oil to Cuba with retaliatory tariffs. Due to this, Cubans — who were already on the verge of the worst humanitarian crisis in decades — now face extended power outages, and struggle to access food, water and basic medical necessities.
With regime change potentially on the horizon, and the opportunity to put a US-backed and controlled new government in place, Cuba will become another island archipelago for the United States to exploit and profit from through business ventures like hotels on privatised beaches, AirBnBs instead of traditional family homes, and of course we cannot forget a 60-floor Trump tower in the middle of Havana… Indeed, Trump himself has long been keen to invest in real estate and own property in Cuba, whether that be hotels, golf courses, or another Mar-A-Lago right next to Guantánamo Bay. In the late 1990s, during Fidel Castro’s presidency and while the US enforced a comprehensive trade ban and economic embargo on the island nation, Trump paid at least $68,000 to a private consulting company to scope out possible real estate business ventures in Havana. Less than a year later, Trump vowed that the economic embargo on Cuba would be maintained if he ever became President of the United States…despite breaking a US law that has been in place since the early 1960s by seeking to trade with Cuba in 1999.
While Trump builds 3D models of potential real estate ventures in the Oval Office, his right-hand man in the Cuba Project, Marco Rubio, Trump’s Secretary of Defence, has been vocal about removing the current Cuban government from office. Rubio — the son of Cuban immigrants — during his 2011 Senate Bid attempted to pander to far-right Florida Cubans, falsely claimed his parents were exiled in 1959 under Castro, when in fact they left in 1956 under Batista. Marco Rubio is not the son of exiles who were forced out of their country by the Cuban Revolution and always intended to return to Cuba, they were immigrants who moved to the United States in search of better economic conditions and a better life — sound familiar? That’s only the story of most immigrants in the United States that the Trump administration and ICE are forcibly deporting from the country.
With a Russian oil tanker headed for Cuba currently making its way across the Atlantic, who will no doubt encounter US Navy forces, things are bound to evolve beyond interviews with reporters in the Oval Office. I don’t speak for Cubans when I say this, but I have a hard time imagining them welcoming a possible US intervention on their island. While Marco Rubio appears hellbent on regime change (maybe he sees a job opening for himself in Havana?), Donald Trump seems to be gunning for a sweet economic deal with the Cuban government that would open the island to US private investments and a nice spot on the island to build his next golf course (or maybe another Trump Taj Mahal).
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The Only “Freedom” Trump and Rubio Want to Give Cuba is a Free Market
These days, when Donald Trump is not sanctioning the US bombing of a primary school in Iran using Tomahawk missiles, threatening to annex Greenland, threatening NATO for not enthusiastically assisting in the un-blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, or body-blocking the release of additional Epstein files, he’s fantasising about “taking Cuba.”
While speaking to reporters a few days ago, he said taking over the small socialist island that resides just less than 500 kilometers off the coast of Florida would be a great honour: “Whether I free it, take it—I think I can do anything I want with it.” One thing is for sure: what Donald Trump wants with Cuba is not to liberate Cubans from an oppressive regime. If he did, he would have been far more reticent to place an oil and fuel embargo on the socialist nation following his early January attack on Venezuela, and would not have threatened any nation intending to supply oil to Cuba with retaliatory tariffs. Due to this, Cubans — who were already on the verge of the worst humanitarian crisis in decades — now face extended power outages, and struggle to access food, water and basic medical necessities.
With regime change potentially on the horizon, and the opportunity to put a US-backed and controlled new government in place, Cuba will become another island archipelago for the United States to exploit and profit from through business ventures like hotels on privatised beaches, AirBnBs instead of traditional family homes, and of course we cannot forget a 60-floor Trump tower in the middle of Havana… Indeed, Trump himself has long been keen to invest in real estate and own property in Cuba, whether that be hotels, golf courses, or another Mar-A-Lago right next to Guantánamo Bay. In the late 1990s, during Fidel Castro’s presidency and while the US enforced a comprehensive trade ban and economic embargo on the island nation, Trump paid at least $68,000 to a private consulting company to scope out possible real estate business ventures in Havana. Less than a year later, Trump vowed that the economic embargo on Cuba would be maintained if he ever became President of the United States…despite breaking a US law that has been in place since the early 1960s by seeking to trade with Cuba in 1999.
While Trump builds 3D models of potential real estate ventures in the Oval Office, his right-hand man in the Cuba Project, Marco Rubio, Trump’s Secretary of Defence, has been vocal about removing the current Cuban government from office. Rubio — the son of Cuban immigrants — during his 2011 Senate Bid attempted to pander to far-right Florida Cubans, falsely claimed his parents were exiled in 1959 under Castro, when in fact they left in 1956 under Batista. Marco Rubio is not the son of exiles who were forced out of their country by the Cuban Revolution and always intended to return to Cuba, they were immigrants who moved to the United States in search of better economic conditions and a better life — sound familiar? That’s only the story of most immigrants in the United States that the Trump administration and ICE are forcibly deporting from the country.
With a Russian oil tanker headed for Cuba currently making its way across the Atlantic, who will no doubt encounter US Navy forces, things are bound to evolve beyond interviews with reporters in the Oval Office. I don’t speak for Cubans when I say this, but I have a hard time imagining them welcoming a possible US intervention on their island. While Marco Rubio appears hellbent on regime change (maybe he sees a job opening for himself in Havana?), Donald Trump seems to be gunning for a sweet economic deal with the Cuban government that would open the island to US private investments and a nice spot on the island to build his next golf course (or maybe another Trump Taj Mahal).
“04052016PlayaGironPropagande” by Steph32 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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