It’s all been wargamed, and we have more than tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.
And Marines are not reluctant to fire. They will follow orders.
Nobody’s worried about our Marines at Guantanamo, least of all myself. But the `massive peaceful invasion’ scenario just might work if the Cuban regime senses failure of will in whoever is POTUS.
Recall during the 1980’s how Walter Cronkite and other media lefties actually counseled passive resistance in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe? The old coot said something like, “if thousands of us lay down in the path of Soviet tanks, what would they do?”
Somebody wrote in reply, “About twenty miles per hour, in second gear.”
Castro hasn’t survived this long in power by being stupid. But he’ll exploit any weakness in POTUS leadership and he’s done it before.
Mariel Boatlift 1980, anyone?