The Future of Freedom Foundation
July 2, 2025
According to the Wall Street Journal, "President Trump on Monday signed a presidential memorandum to restore hard-line U.S. policy toward Cuba, reversing the Biden administration's late-term efforts to ease some restrictions on the communist-run island."
Yawn! Same old, same old. Keep targeting the Cuban with the brutal, decades-old economic embargo in the hope of finally - finally! - achieving regime change on the island. When it comes to Cuba, hope springs eternal within the U.S. national-security establishment that the Cuban people, faced with death by starvation, will finally - finally! - revolt against their communist regime and replace it with another brutal pro-U.S. "capitalist" dictator.
The Journal continues: "The memorandum reinforces the Trump administration's stance that Cuba is a U.S. national-security concern, reimposes a statutory ban on tourism, and doubles down on a decades‑old economic embargo."
Ooh - "National Security"! The two most important words in the American political lexicon. Yeah, the Cuban army is right now making preparations to invade Miami. And the Cuban Air Force is getting ready to bomb U.S. nuclear missile sites. And Cuban officials are preparing lesson plans for teaching communism in America's socialist public (i.e., government) schooling system. And Cuban sharpshooters are already here looking for people to assassinate.
No matter what definition is put on that meaningless, ludicrous term - "national security" - the notion that Cuba is a threat to "national security" is absolutely ridiculous.
In the long, sordid history of U.S.-Cuban relations, it has always been the U.S. government that has been the aggressor, and it has always been the Cuban government that has been the defender.
Cuba has never initiated an attack against the United States or against the American people.
It is the U.S. government that has invaded Cuba. It is the U.S. government that has engaged in state-sponsored assassination attempts in Cuba, including in partnership with the Mafia, one of the biggest criminal groups in history. It is the U.S. government that has committed acts of terrorism within Cuba. It is the U.S. government that has targeted the Cuban people with death by starvation with a brutal economic embargo.
Why can't U.S. officials just leave Cuba alone? What is with it their never-ending obsession with Cuba?
It all goes back to the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Cuba was being ruled by a brutal dictator named Fulgencio Batista. He was a tyrant but what mattered was that he was a loyal member of the U.S. Empire. He did what U.S. officials told him to do.
The Cuban people finally had enough of that brute, especially when his goons began kidnapping underaged girls and furnishing them to the Mafia's high rollers in Havana's casinos. After the Cuban people successfully revolted, they installed Fidel Castro into power, a communist who refused to cow-tow to the U.S. Empire.
Nobody does that to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA. The U.S. deep stated decided that Cuba now posed a grave threat to U.S. "national security." Everything would be done to protect the United States from this grave threat, including invasion, state-sponsored assassination, terrorism, and, of course, a brutal economic embargo designed to target the Cuban people with death by starvation.
President Kennedy is the only president who was willing to put a stop to this vicious, malicious, deadly, and destructive misconduct. That was what his famous Peace Speech at American University was all about. In fact, on the day that the U.S. national-security establishment assassinated him on grounds of protecting "national security," he had an emissary having lunch with Castro with the aim of bring an end to the U.S. national-security establishment's war on Cuba. Kennedy's assassination ensured that the U.S. embargo on Cuba would continue into perpetuity or until regime change was finally achieved.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that no president since Kennedy, including Donald Trump, has dared to buck the U.S. deep state when it comes to Cuba. And so it is that the brutal, deadly U.S. embargo continues - on grounds of protecting "national security" of course.
I've got a better idea. How about just finally leaving Cuba alone? How about lifting the decades-old U.S. embargo, which targets innocent people with impoverishment or death by starvation? Indeed, how about finally dismantling the U.S. national-security state, along with its totalitarian-like, dark side powers, and restoring America's founding governmental system of a limited-government republic? Hasn't it done enough damage to America, Cuba, and the rest of the world?
Reprinted with permission from Future of Freedom Foundation.