Foreign Policy
The Wrong War to Win Quickly: On the Consequences of Invading Cuba
With the Iran war settled, the deferred question returns on schedule. Taking the threat against Havana at face value, this is an attempt to count what a war with Cuba would actually produce — not in the triumphal grammar of Washington nor the martyrological grammar of Havana, but on the ledger where consequences are tallied after the cameras leave. The gravest danger may not be the war the planners fear but the aftermath none of them have planned for.
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America’s maximum pressure campaign against Cuba has achieved something remarkable: it has made the island’s misery someone else’s problem.
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