• Greenleaf [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Cuba one million percent doesn’t want them there, it’s just they can’t do anything about it. Taking it back militarily would definitely trigger war / an invasion. It was created when Cuba was conquered and colonized by the USA.

    • VapeNoir [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Presumably because they can't do anything about it. The US offers Cuba a nominal sum to "rent" the land to maintain legitimacy and iirc the Cuban government has continually rejected it on principle.

      • SSJ2Marx
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        9 months ago

        I'm imagining a huge stack of checks in a storage room. When the time is right, the cuban president will deposit them all at once, overdrawing America's account and collapsing the economy.

      • mar_k [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Apparently they only give $4,085 per year for it, $340 a month for 45 square miles, locked in since 1974