You make a good point. At the same time, when he broke his electoral promise to stop foreign interfefence and kidnapped Maduro, his voter base did not turn against him. That seems to have emboldened him to pursue more military actions abroad.

Now let's see how long until he invades Cuba, and how his voters will react.

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pjc50 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

God, they're going to love that - provided it's a swift victory, of course. They've wanted that since the Bay of Pigs.

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mothballed an hour ago | parent [-]

I wonder what Cuba would look like now if Batista had never been overthrown. That's probably on par with how it would have worked if US meddling were more successful. I can't say I know it would be worse.

	▲	pjc50 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Difficult to separate "Cuba is bad because it is badly governed" from "Cuba is bad because it has been heavily sanctioned and no longer gets help from the Soviet Union", really. Too many different variables. Hard to imagine it being worse than Haiti or El Salvador, but also hard to imagine it having free elections (because that would immediately elect an anti-US socialist who would be overthrown again).

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philipallstar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unlike Venezuela and Iran, Cuba doesn't really fuel China, so I assume it's not such a priority.

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bobthepanda an hour ago | parent [-]

I mean, in that case why rattle about Greenland?

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DFHippie 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Somebody, in a conversation of which there will be no record, told him it was a good idea, telling him it would be quick, he would be lauded as a hero, there would be vast mineral riches, etc. This person wanted to break up NATO, but this wasn't part of the sales pitch, I imagine.

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IOT_Apprentice 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reportedly, Rare earth minerals.

	▲	bobthepanda 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		America also has those; and it’s not like we’ve had a bad trading relationship with the EU until fairly recently.

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ben_w 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Almost everyone's asking the same question regardless of what they think's going on inside Trump's head. The two most coherent answers I've seen are "to soothe his narcissistic injury from being told he can't" and "feels entitled to it because NATO", you will note neither of these was his stated reason, and all of this is still catastrophically poor judgment on his part.