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Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
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Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba

The Hill
by Laura Kelly
02/27/26

President Trump on Friday suggested the U.S. could carry out a “friendly takeover” of Cuba, as the president has used a fuel blockade to increase the pressure on the communist regime in Havana.

“The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble, as you know. They have no money, no anything right now,” Trump told reporters. “Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.”

Trump imposed a fuel blockade on the island in an executive order at the end of January in a push to collapse the regime, which relies heavily on energy and food imports.

The United Nations’s top official for Cuba warned on Wednesday that daily life on the island is “becoming fragile” with increased strains on health care, water services and food distribution.

U.S. officials reportedly met Thursday with the grandson of 94-year-old former president Raúl Castro, considered the de facto leader of the totalitarian regime, on the sidelines of a conference in the Caribbean attended by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Castro’s grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, serves as his grandfather’s bodyguard and is believed to oversee Cuba’s armed forces’s conglomerate, known as GAESA, which controls much of the island’s economy. The Miami Herald reported that in 2024, GAESA had about $18 billion in assets and in unknown bank accounts.

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https://thehill.com/policy/international/5759118-cuba-friendly-takeover-trump/
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Re: Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
« Reply #1 on: Today at 02:49:47 pm »
I don't think so.  Why should we rescue the communist government from itself?
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Re: Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:52:07 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on Today at 02:49:47 pm
I don't think so.  Why should we rescue the communist government from itself?

Trump has 'floated' too many takeovers for my comfort.
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Re: Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
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Quote from: libertybele on Today at 02:52:07 pm
Trump has 'floated' too many takeovers for my comfort.
It's exhausting.
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Re: Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
« Reply #4 on: Today at 03:03:24 pm »
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Trump frequently says things as 'testing the water' with no follow through.
He just wants to gauge the reaction. He does this a lot.
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Re: Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
« Reply #5 on: Today at 03:06:15 pm »
They would sooner starve to death than capitulate to the USA. 

Typical Trump rhetoric!  That is his wishful thinking, that they make it easy and allow us to takeover their nation, to rescus the island state from starvation and ruin.  NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!

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Re: Trump floats ‘friendly takeover’ of Cuba
« Reply #6 on: Today at 03:38:30 pm »
Why the hell would we want another Puerto Rico?
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