Trump’s neo-colonial wars will catalyse US decline

“After Iran, we’ll do Cuba,” declared United States President Donald Trump in a casual chat with reporters aboard Air Force One, the presidential aircraft, about his plans to attack the Caribbean island.

He added with a shrug: “It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn’t matter. They have no energy. They have no money. They are in deep trouble.”