Time to cure that communist chancre sore that’s been suppurating off America’s coast for over 60 years since that sissy JFK failed to send in the Air Force, the Navy, and the 82nd Airborne to back up the Cuban freedom fighters at the Bay of Pigs. Fidel Castro should have been swinging from a telephone pole in 1961; maybe, then Kennedy would not have been murked by some Marxist malcontent from the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
Lesson: Always take out the commies when you have the chance, whether it’s through an open helicopter door or by applying leverage when they are about to collapse under the sheer weight of their malignant incompetence. This is where we are right now. The freedom-hating regime just below arguably the most freedom-loving state in the union is teetering. They can’t feed themselves. They can’t fuel themselves. Of course, they blame American sanctions, which is probably correct in that no communist entity can survive without either massive subsidies or capitalism supporting it – just look at America’s academia.
Right now, they are wobbling, and there’s no one left to bail them out as a way to stick it to Uncle Sam as the old USSR did. Their list of friends grows thin. Russia can’t help them. China can’t help them. Iran can’t even help itself, unless Donald Trump chickens out in the face of the mullahs (Unlikely!). And Venezuela can’t help them. It’s under new management after Delta Force easily waxed Cuba’s elite praetorians and carried off el jefe Maduro, leaving dozens of dead reds to be shipped back to Havana in shoeboxes.
Time to tell the Cuban communist cadres to go get their shine boxes. After mounting the mullah’s heads on the wall of the Oval Office, the President should mount a trophy to represent Cuba Libre.
It’s not just that the Cuban communists have enslaved and imprisoned the people of an island that should be a paradise since Ike was president. Make no mistake, that’s enough to put a target on their back. They’ve murdered hundreds of thousands of freedom-loving patriots. They’ve tortured and imprisoned millions. They must be held to account. A legendary freedom fighter, asked what it felt like to kill a human being, famously responded that he did not know – he had only killed communists. He could have been talking about these Caribbean monsters, these degenerate thugs and psychotic fiends whose brutality is exceeded only by their amazing incompetence. The one thing on earth that can keep a country full of Cubans poor is socialism.
But there’s another reason to finish them. The Cuban communist cadres have targeted our country. They have infiltrated our society through their notorious Dirección de Inteligencia (DI), the Cuban intelligence agency commonly known in English as the Intelligence Directorate. The DI punches far above its weight and is extremely effective for its size, which is no surprise. It’s full of Cubans.
The organization’s entire focus is on the United States, and it has slipped its tentacles into every part of our society, from Hollywood to academia, from the regime media to government. It is all over the bureaucracy – the prevalence of Cuban intelligence assets is well-known. Every few years, the FBI busts a spy ring, but most of Havana’s assets remain in place because the truth is far too explosive to expose. The Cubans have significant assets within and among the Democratic Party and the organizations of the activist left. Which means that there is another huge benefit to getting rid of this rogue regime once and for all. It will devastate the pro-communist NGOs behind so much of the leftist disruption in our society.
It’s easy to get agents into the United States. You just send them. Miami was and remains full of them; that’s well-known in the Cuban exile community. But once here, the case officers go to people of influence and recruit them. Most are not even Cuban. It’s easy – the DI field officers’ big problem is volume, as there are just too many left-wing Americans eager to help the Cuban regime to handle.
At various prestigious colleges, Cuban agents have cultivated professors and administrators as assets. Not only do these traitors push the party line in their work, but they also act as talent scouts among the students. They look for young people among America’s elite to turn into assets themselves, and these little creeps are only all too willing to play ball. One venue is the Venceremos Brigades. That’s a group that aspiring pinkos can join to get indoctrinated, including on annual trips to Cuba, where they can be trained and assimilated. Every year, the annual visit has a slogan. Want to guess what it was in 2015?
Then they come back and organize against America. If a group is protesting something, it’s probably pro-Havana. The DI’s fingerprints are all over these “spontaneous, grassroots movements.” We know that from defectors. Getting rid of Cuba’s communist regime means not only cutting off the head of the snake but getting access to the records to hold the American traitors accountable. That’s a win-win.
The Democrats won’t like it because the open secret in the counter-intel community is how riddled with Cuban agents the Democrat Party is. There are active Cuban assets working in Congress on Democratic staffs, and more likely than not, some Democratic representatives and senators are compromised. But it’s all over the country. Here in Los Angeles, clinical moron, Mayor Karen Bass was a leader of the Venceremos Brigade, and she traveled to Cuba several times. When Castro died in 2016, she issued a tongue-bath eulogy worthy of the Washington Post or Pravda, to the extent they differ, opining that "the passing of the Comandante en Jefe is a great loss to the people of Cuba.”
Karen Bass, who has “Nearly burned down Los Angeles last year” on her resume, along with being a Cuban agent of influence, was one of the finalists in the Democratic Party’s 2020 vice-presidential search.
We need to put an end to this communist subversion by this enemy right off our shores. But how? Certainly, we could invade, and the Cuban Army – accustomed only to brutalizing the people they immediately disarmed upon taking power (Memo To Americans: Buy guns and ammunition) – would get gacked before its generals can cry“¡Aye caramba!” But the best idea is to let the Cubans do it. These are a feisty people and, properly motivated – like by us blockading the island to increase the economic pressure and giving the people some guns – would be happy to do what is necessary.
What else can the President do? Make it clear to the regime that there’s a fuse and that only the first to grab the life preserver will be saved. Maybe a tweet along the lines of an offer to members of the DI, in Cuba and here in America, offering amnesty, money, and even a green card for them and their family if they defect now, with records and files showing their operation in the United States. But that’s a limited-time offer; it’s first-come, first-served. And you do not want to be the last guy standing in Havana because you’re going to personally experience whatever the Spanish word for “payback” is for 65+ years of communist oppression.
We should invite them to give up and give in, and with the fresh example of Maduro and the Mullahs there to concentrate their minds wonderfully, they may well do it. That’s the easy way. But there’s also the hard way, and if it comes to that, so be it. Just remember Scarface, where Tony Montana, offered the chance to knife a red flunky, assured his principal that “I kill a communist for fun?” And trust me, knowing Cubans, that once the Communist Revolution has been finally consigned to the depths of hell where it belongs, this will be the moderate scenario.
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