Cuba and Trump's Dictatorial Empire

President Trump suggested the US could carry out a “friendly takeover” of Cuba as tensions between the two countries escalates again. He has cranked up pressure on Cuba’s struggling regime following his illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, in January.

His pressure on Cuba also involves violating the libertarian principal of non-aggression. The US has imposed an oil blockade of the island – aided by piracy of its tankers – strangling the island’s beleaguered economy. Most planes can’t refuel and cars are left sitting idle. As I wrote in a previous blog, Cuba’s fuel shortages can affect transportation that brings food or medicine to local markets. Simply put, his megalomanic ways are harming Cuban citizens simply trying to survive, while satisfying his own power-grab.

It’s been widely reported that US officials have met with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the grandson of 94-year-old Raúl Castro, as part of negotiations on opening up the island. Trump said on Friday: “They have no money, they have no anything right now. But they’re talking with us and maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.”

It should be pointed out that the only reason they have less than what they had before… is because of the power hungry actions of the US president. Imagine if Russia or China executed a oil blockade of the United States. There would be war. Sadly, Trump is like a bully. He only picks on the little guys he knows he can push around and make suffer. Aggressors and dictators start wars; leaders don’t.

When referring to the large Cuban exile community in the US, he suggested a takeover of the island could be “something good … very positive”, saying: “You know, we have people living here that want to go back to Cuba, and they’re very happy with what’s going on.” To me, that hints at wanting to get rid of yet more people ‘not like us’… or even of making it our 52nd state… his want-to-be Greenland being the 51st.

US financial domination of the Cuban economy was one of the main drivers of Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. While Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, previously said that his government is willing to talk, discussions could not involve Cuba’s internal affairs. Talks had to come “from a position of equals, with respect for our sovereignty, our independence, and our self-determination”. In other words, non-aggression.

If Trump really wanted to help Cuba, it’s citizens, and make it a nice place for its emigrants to return home to, he’d lift every sanction that has ever been placed on the island. Sixty-seven years of them have been a complete failure. He’d fully open up trade, import cigars and other Cuban products (and impose his idiotic tariffs). The best way to solve immigration issues is to conduct mutually beneficial business with other nations so their citizens don’t determine it necessary to come here.

The libertarian policy of non-aggression means defending our own country from evil invaders, not being the evil invader. Non-aggression involves respecting other countries for being different than us. Shamefully, Trump doesn’t think that way. In fact, as I write this, I discovered he just started bombing Iran.

Source used: The Guardian