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Stinky The Clown

(67,808 posts)
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:34 PM Jun 2017

Cuban Missile Crisis Redux? Thanks for that Two Scoops.

So Obama thaws relations with Cuba. So tourists are generally unhappy with what they find there. But there was hope. In fact, Cuba was sharing intel with our IC. It was admittedly nascent, but they were trying to be cautious good neighbors.

So along comes the man with the meat axe. No Treaty for You, Raoul.

Well guess what?

Cuba needs those Yankee Dollars. We get Cohibas and Cuba Libres and they get Bux. But since Two Scoops wants to play up to a few thousand hard core Cubans in Dade County, far fewer Yankee Dollars for the island.

So NOW guess what?

Russia has already forgiven all of Cuba's debt. Now, they're poised to move in. To build stuff. To invest. To BE there.

90 miles from us.

There is talk of a "small" Russian military installation on the island.





Waitwaitwait . . . . .

I've seen this movie before.



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Cuban Missile Crisis Redux? Thanks for that Two Scoops. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Jun 2017 OP
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Initech Jun 2017 #1
There nothing on Earth that 45 can't fuck up. VOX Jun 2017 #2

VOX

(22,976 posts)
2. There nothing on Earth that 45 can't fuck up.
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:53 PM
Jun 2017

In that destructive regard, he's a goddamn genius, pulling defeat from the jaws of victory time after time. Sowing that discord. Pushing good work off of cliffs. Alienating longtime friends. Setting a lighted match to fragile diplomacy. Dropping science off a 10-story building.
He can destroy it all. He thrives on chaos.

He'll have the U.S. completely tanked in four year's time, UNLESS some R's get wise. Therein lies the problem: hoping Republicans will realize that 45 is a disease to be eradicated (through legitimate processes).

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