• VapeNoir [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Presumably because they can’t do anything about it. The US offers Cuba a nominal sum to “rent” the land to maintain legitimacy and iirc the Cuban government has continually rejected it on principle.

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      9 months ago

      I’m imagining a huge stack of checks in a storage room. When the time is right, the cuban president will deposit them all at once, overdrawing America’s account and collapsing the economy.

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      9 months ago

      Apparently they only give $4,085 per year for it, $340 a month for 45 square miles, locked in since 1974