Trump's Cuban War Excuse

PERHAPS Americans Should Know!!

Photo credit: REUTERS/Carlos Garcia.

    It is apparent to unbiased and unafraid observers that the Trump administration in Washington is gearing up for an overthrow of Cuba's revolutionary government, with the spring of 2019 being the outside timetable for the denouement. While this is actually the most diabolical scheme being currently hatched-up by the Trump White House, it is interesting to note, I believe, that even the left-wing U. S. media that is primarily devoted to overthrowing the Trump presidency is too afraid to report this not-so-secretive development, and that includes CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. But a far better and much braver news agency, the London-based Reuters, as usual is journalistic enough and brave enough to report fairly on U.S.-Cuban affairs. Yesterday -- Nov. 21-2018 -- Reuters used the above photo to illustrate an article that, essentially, informs the world about the Trump administration's pretext, or excuse, for its planned "regime change" in Cuba. For American taxpayers about to pay for that war, yesterday's informative Reuters update is entitled: "Exclusive: U. S. Weighs Sanctions On Cuban Officials Over Role In Venezuela Crackdown." The verb "Weights" to describe new "Sanctions" against Cuba is not newly as significant as the last two words in that headline: "Venezuela Crackdown." You see, the highly respected Reuters News Agency is brave enough to do something that the mainstream U. S. media is far too cowardly to report, and that is: The drastic turmoil in oil-rich Venezuela has been chosen by extreme right-wing Cuban-Americans as the excuse to overthrow the Cuban government and, MOREOVER, that pretext has been SUCCESSFULLY transmitted to Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump. And also please note that this Reuters article on Nov. 21-2018 correctly identifies the person who has successfully convinced President Trump that "VENEZUELA" is the excuse that the America people will accept as the reason it is NECESSARY to execute even a bloody overthrow of the Cuban government. And without pussy-footing or tip-toeing gently around the issue, let's discuss the man Reuters identifies as the war-monger who has, it seems, already convinced President Trump of a second U. S. war in Cuba {after the 1898 Spanish-American War} and the need for a second military attack in Cuba {after the embarrassing failure of the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack}.

    It is apparent that Mauricio Claver-Carone is the man President Donald Trump has pointed at to become the director of the impending overthrow of Cuba's Revolutionary government. The aforementioned Reuters article that correctly pinpointed the turmoil in Venezuela as the pretext...the excuse...for Trump's Cuban war, also correctly stated, "Trump's top Latin American adviser, Mauricio Claver-Carone..." For sure, Claver-Carone is an obvious choice for that delicate Cuban assignment now being finalized in the White House.

    All his adult life Mauricio Claver-Carone has worked tirelessly for the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba. It seems that every major anti-Cuban tactic in the past two decades has Claver-Carone's foot-prints and finger-prints all over them. That includes his own anti-Cuban propaganda on his own as well as other radio & television programs, his anti-Cuban writings in major publications, his vicious Capital Hill Cubans blog, and...MOST OF ALL...his massive anti-Cuban fund-raising and anti-Cuban lobbying both inside Washington's Capital Hill and elsewhere...or anywhere he could hurt Cuba.

     So, Mauricio Claver-Carone was the logical choice to be Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump's mastermind involving the upcoming regime-change in Cuba, which Claver-Carone fervently champions and finally, with Trump, appears capable of achieving.

     In the Cuban endeavor, President Trump is flanked by his two most powerful Foreign Policy advisers -- the mustachioed National Security Adviser John Bolton and the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Both Bolton and Pompeo have long lobbied for the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba but, unlike Claver-Carone, they also have other priorities such as loving Saudi Arabia's oil money and the sophisticated U. S. weapons the Saudis can buy, tolerating Russia's ultra-powerful nuclear arsenal, trying not to make mighty China too mad, encouraging nuclear-armed North Korea to be nice, and...so forth. Therefore, the Trump-Bolton-Pompeo troika needed someone who could concentrate fully on the Cuban overthrow and their choice is anti-Cuban extremist Mauricio Claver-Carone.

      The two prime puppeteers pulling President Trump's Cuban strings, of course, are Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio, two incumbents in the U. S. Congress and lifelong products of the vicious Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American contingent in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. Mario's father Rafael was a key Minister in Cuba's Batista dictatorship and, after 1959, one of the all-time richest and most powerful Counter Revolutionaries on U. S. soil. Marco, Trump's dire enemy during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, actually is being allowed by Trump to oversee all Cuban projects and that is a gift Trump hopes will help secure him Little Havana's political and financial support as well as Florida's truck-load of the often decisive electoral votes heading into the 2020 presidential race. And Marco has used his designation as essentially America's and Trump's Cuban dictator to inject only viciously anti-Cuban operatives into the most advantageous positions capable of influencing the actual overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba's government...and that includes the positions now occupied by the likes of Claver-Carone, Bolton, and Pompeo on Trump's National Security, State Department, and Western Hemisphere teams. While there are at least twenty anti-Cuban extremists atop Trump's Cuban cabal, the Big Five are clearly, in this order: Rubio, Claver-Carone, Diaz-Balart, Bolton, and Pompeo.

    Probably the best journalism about how only the most extreme Cuban-American Counter Revolutionaries took over the Cuban portion of the Trump presidency is an article written by highly respected investigative reporter Andy Kroll. I believe every American, so as not to be surprised about what is in store for Cuba by the spring of 2019, should read Kroll's informative article, so I'll give you its title: "How A Crew of Hardliners Hijacked Donald Trump's Cuba Policy." That's the exact title and Andy Kroll is a great journalist. If more Americans got their Cuban news from great journalists like Andy Kroll, and not from Cuban-American propaganda pros or intimidated mainstream journalists, I don't believe my America would have been in the unenviable position of getting condemned by President Obama and the entire world 191-to-0 in the UN the last year America had a decent President, which was 2016...which was the year the extreme left-wing tilt of the Democracy Party put the Republican Party's Donald Trump in the White House. And since then, Andy Kroll has done the best job of explaining how a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American extremists "hijacked" Trump's Cuban policies and then made plans for a relatively brief  and unannounced, unnamed war whose aftermath will be extremely volatile, consequential, and long-lasting.

     But when all is said and done about what is planned for Cuba by the spring of 2019, I sincerely do not believe that the primary culprit is President Donald Trump nor do I believe that the primary culprits are the Miami hardliners depicted above -- Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers, and Ros-Lehtinen. The primary culprits, I believe, are the many millions of gutless Americans who have neither the courage nor the patriotism to even weigh in on the mendacious Cuban policies that, at the very least, make the United States of America resemble a Batistiano/Mafiosi-like Banana Republic.

     Yes, America...President Trump's Assault Brigade 2507, or whatever it euphemistically will be called, plans in the spring of 2019 to avenge the humiliating defeat of Assault Brigade 2506 at Cuba's Bay of Pigs in the spring of 1961. And, yes, America...Trump has the power to accomplish that goal, goaded along by Miami's Little Havana sector and massively aided by a cowardly generation of apathetic Americans. But after 2507 avenges 2506, two things are assured: {1} More Cuba-related shame and humiliation for the United States and for Democracy; and {2} the immediate start of another do-or-die Cuban Revolution that will try to overthrow another foreign domination.

     And what about Mr. John Bolton and his ilk? Well, for example... after his stint as President Trump's top National Security Adviser, Mr. John Bolton will doubtlessly return seamlessly to his old job, which is his Political Action Committee that will resume raising tons of extreme right-wing dollars to fund the campaigns of more extreme right-wing thugs...like the ones planning to aim Assault Brigade 2507 at Cuba. And so, the money-crazed right-wing/left-wing cycles will continue in an America that deserves a return to both Democracy and Decency.

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