Clay Travis

assets that were seized by the Cuban government when the Communist Revolution began.

Reports are, and I know a lot of people probably have not spent much time on this, that in 1959, 90% of Cuban business assets were owned by U.S.-related entities.

So there is an argument, and we'll see what the Supreme Court says about this, that the biggest victims from a business perspective were all U.S.-based corporations and that we should allow U.S.

corporations to go back into Cuba, get their assets back, and try to allow capitalism to exist in the country.

And I would be in favor of that.

It would end the danger of China or Russia or North Korea or Iran, whatever foreign interests bear ill design to the United States from them being able to have close proximity to the United States.

It would tie in with the so-called Donro Doctrine, which is really just a modification, an extension of the Monroe Doctrine, that the United States controls this hemisphere.

I just think it's a no-brainer.

What's your take on this?

There's about 8.5 million people who live in Cuba.

Millions.

What do you think?

What's the Cuban population in the United States, Cuban-born or Cuban descent?

Five, six million probably at least, I would think.

I also think it's been under-discussed that maybe the biggest impact immediately of Venezuela was cutting off the supply of oil to Cuba and creating an opportunity to have, quote-unquote, a friendly takeover in Cuba, more so than in Venezuela.

Let me also say, Buck, I think this is important because you're now seeing the same arguments that were made before we struck Iran.

And those arguments are, oh, my goodness, to your point, we're going to be going to war.

The danger is going to be huge, paramount, all of these different things.

Why didn't that happen when we took out Iran in the so-called, was it 12-day war before Iran?

Iran has no ability to actually push back in any kind of significant way.