Cuba on the Brink: Trump Says Country 'In Its Last Moments of Life' As Anti-Regime Protests Escalate

Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has haunted the U.S. with its hostage-taking, support of terrorism around the globe, threats to acquire nuclear weapons and vaporize Israel, and attempts to assassinate Donald Trump.

 Despite decades of presidential talking, the current commander in chief is the first one to really make a serious move to neutralize the threat posed by Iran, and Operation Epic Fury has wiped out virtually their entire leadership structure. The final outcome is as yet unknown, but I think it’s safe to say that “action has been taken.”

But there’s another country that’s bedeviled us even longer: the República de Cuba. 

Sitting just 90 miles off our shores, the communist regime was birthed by the late dictator Fidel Castro in 1959 following a revolution, and it almost brought us a nuclear-infused World War 3 with the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1980, meanwhile, Castro sent some of the Caribbean country’s most violent, depraved criminals to Florida in the Mariel Boatlift.

If you want to see psychotic, just watch Brian De Palma’s 1983 masterpiece "Scarface," starring Al Pacino. Although it was obviously a fictional representation of what was going on, it was based on real-life events.

President Donald Trump thinks the regime that has kept that country in the 1950s is on life support, which is soon set to expire.

President Donald Trump told CNN Friday morning that Cuba “is going to fall pretty soon.”

“Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way, unrelated, but Cuba is gonna fall too. They want to make a deal so badly,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash in a phone interview when touting US military success in his second term.

“They want to make a deal, and so I’m going to put Marco (Rubio) over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one right now. We’ve got plenty of time, but Cuba’s ready — after 50 years,” he added, explaining that Iran is the current priority.

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Meanwhile, protests continue to gather steam across the island, according to multiple reports:

Trump is not just using the stick, though; he reportedly is in discussions to use the carrot and come to an economic agreement with Cuba that would give an off-ramp for President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Details of that possible deal are scant at this time.

At the "Shield of the Americas" summit at his golf course in Doral, Florida, Saturday, however, the commander-in-chief took a more coercive stance:

Trump:

We're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba. Cuba's at the end of the line. They're very much at the end of the line. They have no money, they have no oil. 

They have a bad philosophy, they have a bad regime that's been bad for a long time. And they used to get the money from Venezuela...

They don't have any oil, they don't have anything...

Cuba is a disaster. But I've been hearing so much about Cuba, but Cuba is in its last moments of life, as it was. 

Could President Trump achieve what was once considered impossible, getting rid of two of the world’s most despotic, anti-American regimes in a matter of mere months? 

For myself, I’ve never understood why we didn’t pay back Iran in spades for their taking of American hostages for 444 days, and I’ve never comprehended why we’ve allowed a pugilist communist Cuban regime to throw stones at us for decades just miles off our shores.

If Trump were able to destroy both these evils in quick succession, it would be absolutely historic, and to both those regimes, I would say, good riddance, and I hope whatever God you believe in treats you with whatever level of mercy that you deserve.