Trumps Blick ist bereits auf Kuba gerichtet

Donald Trump is eyeing military intervention in Cuba, seeking business opportunities more than regime change, administration officials told Vivian Salama and Sarah Fitzpatrick.

The Trump administration is squeezing Cuba to a breaking point as the country battles island-wide blackouts and food shortages amid a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. “The White House is calculating that the island’s extreme economic hardships will provide the leverage Trump needs to force Havana into submission,” Salama and Fitzpatrick write.

“Officials told us the U.S. approach to Cuba would likely replicate the course of events in Venezuela—several called the Caracas operation a ‘dry run’ for Havana—and that the switch from negotiation to military action could happen imminently,” Salama and Fitzpatrick write. “Everything, they cautioned, depends on Trump and his willingness to challenge another regime while still fighting in Iran. But preparations on several fronts are well advanced should he decide to proceed.”

“Regime change is lined up,” one administration official told Salama and Fitzpatrick. “But Trump-style regime change is unlikely to be the democratic uprising that many Cuban exiles have longed for. Venezuela again is expected to be the model. The administration found that its short-term goals of ousting a repressive dictator and opening opportunities for U.S. companies was best met by empowering Maduro’s deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, who proved more willing to engage with Washington. Much of the Caracas regime remains in place.”

Administration officials told Salama and Fitzpatrick they see an outcome in Cuba that would allow Trump to declare victory and open the spigot for American commerce—“There’s billions of dollars to be made there,” one said—while avoiding major political and social upheaval that could exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe and create a migrant crisis 90 miles from Florida.

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— Kim Jao, assistant editor, audience and engagement, *The Atlantic*

Great now my taxes will be used for liberating Cuba so Cuba Americans can get their villas back in Havana and the mob their casinos