The Irish Times view on Cuba: in Trump’s sights

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Cuba is rapidly becoming the next object of the Trump administration’s overseas military adventurism, after Venezuela and Iran. That Cuba is next door and in the centre of the administration’s determination to assert US hemispheric hegemony does not alter its legal right to sovereign independence. Combined with the likelihood of strong resistance to any direct US military invasion this makes Trump’s latest threats against Cuba risky in security terms and tricky for him in domestic politics. A survey shows 64 per cent of US voters are opposed to military action against Cuba and only 15 per cent in favour. Yet…

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