AS AMERICA MOVES ITS ATTENTION TOWARDS CUBA, THAT REGIME'S EASTERN CARIBBEAN ALLIES SHOULD BE WORRIED

Resignation 2 by ALEX CEPPI

The President of the United States bluntly used the word "conquest," recently, when referring to his short-term political and military intentions post-Iran War, and given the close relationship that has existed for decades between Communist Cuba and the Eastern Caribbean states, they should be concerned that they face possible sanctions when America targets Cuba for regime change.

Donald Trump, when taking office in January 2025, reinstated Cuba's status as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and his administration, led by Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American Secretary of State, has openly advocated regime change there. Whether we will see a naval blockade, or even military action, to topple the regime we cannot say, but given the unexpected American attack on Iran, which was a radical departure from decades of American foreign policy, something unusually aggressive could occur, after the Iran situation stabilizes. The terrorist designation can most certainly be used to justify offensive action against Cuba. Given the fact that some of the Eastern Caribbean states have soundly rebuffed America's request that they cancel their use of Cuban doctors and medical services, which the US has shown constitutes human trafficking, and the US also disapproves of the education of Caribbean nationals, including several of its current senior leaders, inside Cuba, given that individuals who have received this training often retain an open political association with the Communist regime after returning home, these can be cited as reasons for American action. All this could serve as a pretext for sanctions, or some other form of punitive actions against the Caribbean states, within an American broad-based campaign against the Cuban government. Given that, due to national security risks caused by the improper issuance of economic passports by several of the EC states, the region is already facing a form of sanctions, the imposition of additional economic, social, and political sanctions against the Eastern Caribbean states, as a component of an American move against Cuba, to further isolate it in the region, and facilitate regime change, is a foreseeable event. The fragile, tourism-centric economies of the Eastern Caribbean states would suffer greatly if the US, whose vacation visitors constitute the vast majority of tourists, and whose airlines and cruise ships keep Caribbean economies more or less afloat, were reined in by the American government. These countries would be well advised to transfer the affiliation of their pro-Cuba leadership to the United States, and break ties to Cuba now, to avoid a possible economic nightmare, caused by their longtime political love affair with a Communist regime in the region.