Military action against Cuba is now being discussed as an option, and that is very good news for Cuba, the United States, and the entirety of the Western Hemisphere. Since the 1959 revolution that overthrew the government of Gen. Fulgencio Batista, the island has become a base for Soviet, then Russian, and later Chinese activity in the Western Hemisphere.
Cuba today threatens American national security, fuels instability on America’s southern border, and serves as a living symbol of socialism’s survival in the Western Hemisphere. Military intervention should no longer be dismissed as politically impossible, but as a viable option to safeguard peace and stability in the region.
Firstly, Cuba has become a strategic outpost for America’s principal adversaries. History points us to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 to tell us that Cuba’s harboring of Soviet missiles at the time posed a direct threat to the U.S. That led to the crisis, which was solved diplomatically but could have escalated into a nuclear Armageddon between the world’s two superpowers.
Today, Cuba serves as both a Chinese and a Russian outpost. U.S. authorities have confirmed a growing Chinese intelligence presence as well as close coordination with Russia on matters of defense and intelligence.
Such a stance of U.S. foreign policy has been made clear in the 33-page National Security Strategy document published in December 2025, which called for a revival of the “Monroe Doctrine.” In accordance with such philosophy, the U.S. executed Operation Absolute Resolve to capture the narco-terrorist leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, whose socialist policies, jump-started by his Cuban Revolution-inspired predecessor, Hugo Chavez, have created a humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela, with poverty and misery following suit.
Secondly, Cuba’s socialist collapse has become an American immigration crisis. Since the Castro regime came to power, hundreds of thousands of Cubans have fled to the shores of Florida, creating one of the biggest right-wing diasporas in the U.S., the Cuban diaspora. Such a crisis continues to this day, with Cubans constituting a large percentage of the illegal immigrants crossing the southern border to enter the U.S. Mass migration from Cuba has not only put a burden on public resources and taxpayer money but has also contributed to a Cuban organized crime problem, which claims lives each year through drug trade and gang violence.
Lastly, the Cuban regime should be militarily toppled for ideological reasons as well. Cuba remains socialism’s flagship in the Americas, so much so that American socialists such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Hasan Piker have pointed to Castro’s Cuba as a model for the U.S. At home, the U.S. is experiencing a resurgence of support for socialism, with two-thirds of young Americans now favoring it over capitalism for the first time in history. Ending the Cuban dictatorship would deprive the international socialist movement of its longest-standing governing symbol in the Western Hemisphere.
CHINA AND CUBA DON’T NEED AN INVASION, JUST A BROKEN DOMINICAN BORDER
Critics of military intervention in Cuba will point to the perceived failures of American interventions in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. What critics overlook is that Cuba is neither Iraq nor Afghanistan, just like Venezuela wasn’t any of those things. In fact, Operation Absolute Resolve has been deemed by many experts a great success, both on the military and foreign policy fronts.
For 65 years, the U.S. has accepted a communist dictatorship ninety miles from its shores. Cuba is of strategic and national interest to the United States. The status quo there must not be allowed to continue.
Ruel Domi is an Albanian political commentator, writer, and master’s student in Applied Economics and Predictive Analytics at the University of North Dakota. His writing has appeared in American Thinker and the Mises Institute, and he is also a contributor to the Times of Israel‘s blogging platform.
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