January 29, 2026 — Belly of the Beast
In a recent article for The American Conservative, Belly of the Beast’s Reed Lindsay shows how current Cuba policy contradicts the principles and goals laid out in Trump’s own National Security Strategy.
“Current Cuba policy is rooted not in our core national interests, but in Cold War nostalgia and Florida politics. These have stymied the recalibration explicitly called for in the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy,” writes Lindsay. “A 180-degree shift toward engagement is not a concession or a gamble — it is the most coherent way to bring U.S. policy toward Cuba into alignment with the administration’s strategic vision for the hemisphere.”
