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Trump’s regime change playbook: The Cuba chapter
After Venezuela, Cuba is the next front in Washington’s Latin America strategy.
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The US policy towards Cuba involves staged but relentless pressure designed to bring the regime to the point of collapse. But US officials are wrong if they believe they can control what follows, says the writer.
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One would have thought that after the fraught experience of the war against Iran, the Trump administration would have lost its appetite for further global adventures in regime change. But not a bit of it. While the confrontation in the Middle East continues, US military pressure is building up against Cuba.
An outright US invasion of the island is still highly unlikely. Instead, the US is literally starving Cuba’s regime out of existence. US President Donald Trump and his advisers may soon get their wish. But no amount of pre-planning can ready the US for what will follow thereafter.
