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Will Trump Complete JFK's Goal of a Free Cuba?

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Michael Capasse:

--- Quote from: John Corbett on March 23, 2026, 03:20:37 PM ---Every dollar Russian spends to prop up the Cuban regime is one more dollar they can't spend on the war in Ukraine, so there is some benefit there. Eventually Russia will come to the same conclusion that the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan. They can't afford to keep pouring money into a bottomless pit and will eventual decide to cease hostilities. I truly believe they are continuing the Ukraine war for Putin to save face. If he were to pass on, I think his successors would find a graceful exit strategy very quickly.

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...as people senselessly die in Cuba.

Tom Graves:

--- Quote from: John Corbett on March 23, 2026, 03:11:18 PM ---This brings up an interesting dilemma for the US. One of the concessions we made to the Soviet Union as part of the agreement to end the Cuban Missile Crisis was that we would not invade Cuba then or in the future. Since the Soviet Union no longer exists, is that agreement still binding, and would our attempt to topple the regime through economic pressure violate the provisions of that agreement. I guess we'd have to look at the fine print.

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Some people (James Angleton and true defector Anatoly Golitsyn included) believed that the Cuban Missile Crisis was planned-in-advance by the Kremlin to be "resolved in America's favor" so that JFK would abandon the Monroe Doctrine.

If true, it would mean that GRU Col. Oleg Penkovsky, "The Spy Who Saved the World" by telling JFK about the specifications of the nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba (specifically that it took a long time to get them ready to fire) was actually working for the KGB at that point.

We do know from the "Zepp Incident" (look it up) that Penkovsky was betrayed by a mole in the CIA or in British Intelligence within two weeks of his April 1961 recruitment by MI6 and the CIA, and that, in the interest of "source protection," he was ostensibly allowed to continue spying for them until October 1962 when, due to "superior KGB surveillance," he was arrested in Moscow.

John Corbett:

--- Quote from: Michael Capasse on March 23, 2026, 03:22:11 PM ---...as people senselessly die in Cuba.

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As opposed to dying senselessly in Ukraine. We can't cure all the world's troubles. We have to pick and choose our battles.

Invading Cuba would be a huge mistake. It is on the verge of economic collapse. We've put up with the regime since 1960. What's a few more months or a few more years.

If the Cuban people can't wait for that, then let them overthrow their regime. There are signs that might be happening already. We just need to be patient.

Castro came to power in a popular uprising. There's no reason that can't happen again.

Benjamin Cole:
MC:

Given that Cuba has indisputably devolved into a thug state, with endless misery for its residents...is some short-term pain worth permanent gain?

Why do leftists in Western liberal democracies examine the US for every possible shortcoming, imagined or otherwise, and then turn into abject simps when it comes to Havana, Tehran or Moscow?

I think JFK would have assassinated/overthrown the Cuba commie party out of existence in his second term. JFK vowed as much.

Michael Capasse:
It's a deliberate humanitarian crisis caused by the US
...pushing us to the edge.

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