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President Donald Trump has had his eyes on Cuba, but while he reportedly is biding his time, there are plans in place.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIran\u2019s not finished, and the president is not in a rush,\u201d a senior administration official told Axios, according to a report in The Daily Beast. \u201cTrump wants to exhaust all the levers that he can. But at this point, there aren\u2019t as many levers as before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noting that Trump wants a \u201cpeaceful transition to a free Cuba,\u201d Axios calls his approach the \u201cmethodical squeezing of Cuba\u2019s communist regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo bring Cuba to its knees this year,\u201d Axios revealed, \u201cthe administration first focused on the island\u2019s lifeline: Venezuela and its socialist leader, Nicolas Maduro, who kept Havana afloat with shipments of oil that helped power the country and gave it a source of export revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration captured Maduro during a raid in early January.<\/p>\n

A senior Trump administration official called the approach \u201caccelerationism.\u201d The Daily Beast reports they were \u201creferring to the fringe philosophy of speeding up a perceived inevitable societal collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we don\u2019t want to kill off the regime just yet. There\u2019s a method to this. It\u2019s in stages,\u201d they said. That strategy allows the commander in chief to focus on his three-month-long war in Iran \u2014 something Senate Republicans reportedly prefer takes priority over any Cuba incursion.<\/p>\n

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The president\u2019s approach to Cuba is \u201cclassic Trump,\u201d a presidential advisor told Axios: \u201cPush your enemy off balance. It\u2019s pressure, watch the response, apply more pressure, watch the response, apply more pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the administration says there is no immediate plan to invade the island nation of roughly 9.7 million people, the Defense Department is primed and has been performing \u201ctabletop\u201d exercises in preparation. Axios credits Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a \u201cchief architect of Trump\u2019s Latin America policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

But according to Axios, one Trump advisor said: \u201cThe president does not want boots on the ground for more than 48 hours. It\u2019s a quagmire in the making. This could get messy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is on the table, but no invasion is planned or imminent,\u201d a senior official told Axios. \u201cWhen POTUS says go, we\u2019re ready for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump has had his eyes on Cuba, but while he reportedly is biding his time, there are plans in place.\u201cIran\u2019s not finished, and the president is not in a rush,\u201d a senior administration official told Axios, according to a report in The Daily Beast. \u201cTrump wants to exhaust all the leve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump officials say plan is in place for 'messy' Cuba regime change - Next Address America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=655\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump officials say plan is in place for 'messy' Cuba regime change - 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