The US has a lingering hard-on for Cuba in the way that the Chinese mainlanders still assert ownership of Taiwan.

Like, you’ve got a huge cartel of chuds on the Florida peninsula who unironically think they’re just going to paddle back across the Gulf and pick up where they left off 80 years ago. They see the entire island as an American colony in revolt and won’t be happy until Cubans are in a Haitian/DR/Puerto Rico like relationship with the States once again.