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Trump is making Cuba an offer it can’t refuse

President Donald Trump has shown Cuba’s communist rulers two ways their reign over the island can end: the Maduro way or the Khamenei way.

The Cuban regime is a mix of gerontocracy, nepotism, and socialism — its official face is President Miguel Diaz-Canel, but supreme authority still emanates from the 94-year-old Raul Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, the state’s founding dictator.

Though the long-lived Castro clan seems to prove only the good die young, no one beats the actuarial tables in the end, and Raul’s days are drawing short.

Cuba is overdue for a profound change, and Trump is determined to bring it about. 

It’s been a lifelong goal of the Cuban-American who now serves as secretary of state, too.

What Trump and Marco Rubio have planned won’t look exactly like the operation that captured Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, or like the obliteration of Ayatollah Khamenei and most of his senior staff in the war now being waged against Iran.

Megyn Kelly rips senator for threats against Cuba, Spain: ‘When did Lindsey Graham become our president?’

Tulsi Gabbard, CIA at war over bombshell Havana Syndrome evidence linking mystery illness to Russia

Lindsey Graham teases that freeing Cuba is next for Trump admin as he boasts about progress in Iran: ‘Stay tuned’

But Cuban officials have seen just how far the Trump administration is willing to go.

They’ve been educated by example, and now they........

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