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Cuba is extremely vulnerable. The U.S. can just attack it unceasingly with less time needed for positioning units. They won’t have as much time to prepare in between strikes.
Venezuela and Iran can hold out but I don’t think Cuba can do the same.
Yeah, the threat of USSR retaliation kept the US in check for many years with countries like Cuba. Russia is stretched to the limits of their capabilities, China has yet to show any hardline commitment towards interventionism, and everyone else is either willingly allied with the US or too weak to do anything. There is no one to kept the US in check for going rogue especially with countries in their backyard. Plus, air power is much more destructive and capable now then in the past if you lack the modern air defenses to match or can inflict equal damage back with your own modern offensive capabilities like Iran did, guerilla warfare with only rpg-7s and AK47s won’t get you as far in 2026 as it did in the 1970s.