Bob Kagan

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The Bulwark Daily · Robert Kagan: A Total and Complete Shutdown of Trump · 27 May 2026 podcast

go too far with prediction, but Cuba is going to be a mess, you know?

I mean, let's say they swoop in and they take out a Castro and bring him to trial and then put somebody else in.

Cuba is bankrupt.

They have no electricity.

The people are dying for want.

Are we about to give them a multibillion-dollar aid package?

Are we going to help them restore their economy?

Are we going to really get in there and help?

This is a nation-building situation.

This is not a matter of turning the keys over to some other stooge like we did in Venezuela.

In addition to which, the Cuban-American community

is a very vocal community and really cares how things turn out in Cuba.

And I'm not sure that they will be satisfied if we simply decapitate the regime, hand it off to somebody else, and then let the chips fall where they may.

So I think that this is yet another Donald Trump

quagmire in the making.

And I'm curious, you know better than I do, whether this actually will buy him anything politically.

I mean, is the average voter going to say, oh, wow, thank goodness we're not really paying attention to Iran anymore.

Now we're invading Cuba.

And, you know, I think, as you've said, also, all this is going to be taking place in the context of increasing economic difficulties.

I don't see any way around that.

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