“Bringing about regime change in Cuba has been the great white whale for many conservatives for a very long time,” says Rosemary Kelanic, an expert in energy security and U.S. grand strategy at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank advocating a realist foreign policy. “This seems especially true in the South Florida Cuban community and in Trump’s circle of friends at Mar-a-Lago.”
“But while Trump is using oil to increase the pressure on the Cuban regime,” she adds, “I think the Venezuela model and Trump’s talk of a ‘deal’ suggests he could have something other than full regime change in mind.”
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