It’s only a “permanent” plan while President Roly Poly - and perhaps Pence - is in office
The White House has become the "Bay of Pigs."
We get it trump.
Open the door really wide so putin can slip some missiles in and tell you there just telephone poles.
You would believe him before homeland security.
And putin knows it.
So who is going to be handling embassy security?
Reducing staff rather than, say rotating younger singles or offering hazard pay, is consistent with the generally hostile stance of the Republicans towards Cuba but the fact remains this is a very strange thing going on and the absence of explanation leads into some serious tinfoil hat territory.
Accepting this mysterious medical syndrome and the complaints of staff as real rather than some administration concoction, Cuba is still a police state so it’s hard to imagine a foreign agent attacking the staff or even some rogue unit in the Cuban security service. It seems clear Cuban authorities wants rapprochement so an attack, if it is indeed an an attack, is unlikely to be sanctioned by the state. I haven’t seen any public analysis of conditions that could lead disparate staff members with different schedules and behaviors to exhibit common symptoms but assume something has been don along those lines with no satisfactory result. So what explanation is left?
The Anti-Science Trump Administration, which really does not want an accurate answer to who or what caused this issue (after all, the answer might be Vladmir Putin’s kleptocracy in yet another attempt to counter US influence) has apparently failed to show the curiosity to take the step of reverse engineering the raped sound signatures that do exist.
The question is, who benefits from the US having a lower profile in Cuba? And the answer is, definitely NOT Cuba. Cuba wants more trade and better relations. There’s no way they’re responsible for this.
This is just another example of Trump’s foreign policy being too unsophisticated to go beyond the obvious.