Trump is prepping America for a military intervention in Cuba.

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28. Well, if the Orange Lump installs another Batista...

... maybe they will. But the Cuban people deserve better than that. Let us not forget that a sizable proportion of the first Cuban refugees that streamed into Florida following Fidel's victory in 1959 were Batista supporters after ol' Fulgencio beat feet. Disillusioned Castro supporters weren't far behind, though.
But what Trump is doing to Cuba right now is just pure malicious sadism; he loves to hurt people; he gets off on it.
Another possible scenario is suggested by Putin's obsession by "the way things used to be". A Cuban Missile Crisis redux might have been part of his fever dreams at one point, but he's getting his ass handed to him daily by Ukraine, the number of mutinous front line troops is growing exponentially, and the domestic economy is in унитаз (toilet. Russian does not employ articles like the), so he can't really afford to spread Russia's resources much thinner; he's already cautiously avoiding windows. Defenestration: It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.