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America is the greatest land of all. Can we start behaving in a manner befitting that status and our Christian values? Attempting to starve the people of Cuba into submission is not Christian behavior. Cutting off fuel and threatening any country that helps them or provides humanitarian aid is not diplomatic, it’s bullying the world to achieve our ends. We have relationships with Russia and China, which help Cuba since we won’t. We paid for repairs and mended relationships with Germany and Japan after World War Two. Why haven’t we extended a helping hand to Cuba? The people of Cuba are in a dire economic crisis because the U.S. doesn’t fancy who won their revolution and how the Cuban people chose to be governed.
The American people do not want to colonize or add to the misery of our neighbors. Many of us have long wondered just why we can’t be friends with a poor country that poses little threat to us. We’ve long welcomed and supported Cuban refugees. The Cuban diaspora in South Florida has relentlessly campaigned since the 1960s for the U.S. to get its island back for them. That is not our job. Mutual diplomacy is our job. Instead of telling Americans to move on from the Epstein files, maybe tell the Cubans in Florida to move on and be more grateful we took them in. If they want their island back, set up a GoFundMe to help the starving multitudes in Cuba. That will get a change of regime faster than scorched earth policies that only reinforce that we are their enemy.
We can afford to bail out Argentina with a $20 billion currency swap, contingent on Trump’s personal friend, current president Javier Milei, winning the election. Surely that money could have helped build trust and alleviate the daily suffering of our neighbors, the Cuban people? Most Americans understand by now this administration is after whatever makes the rich richer. Our takeover of Venezuela, ostensibly to save us from drug traffickers, while simultaneously pardoning wealthy, well-connected, convicted drug traffickers held in U.S. prisons, is hard to justify or accept the reasoning given. It appears to help oil companies most.
The President’s trip to Davos to insult the leaders of the free world and claim Greenland as ours, because he wants it, only angered and galvanized the rest of the free world to mount a defense for who’s next. Trump has symbolically divorced from the rest of the free world without an NDA. Looks like he can’t have Greenland so he plans to get Cuba instead.
It’s time to say enough! Let’s defend and stay true to our constitution and Christian values. Support the many brave people defending their neighbors, don’t use the Bible to justify evil, speak up for truth, call your congressmen and let them know we do not want to conquer Cuba. We want to alleviate the suffering of the Cuban people. We want a lasting, respectful diplomatic relationship built on respect, not fear.
Vote in the midterms and 2028 elections. This administration is taking the United States in the wrong direction at every turn. Instead of delivering on campaign promises to improve our lives, we’ve been taken on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. “The longer you stay on a train headed in the wrong direction, the costlier the return trip home.”
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