personal opinion No if they thought the land was theirs they wouldn't have left as they went home they weren't Cuban and didn't need the land . Under my logic its another set of greedy rich turn out wanting money for doing nothing.

Yep, pay up or face Trump's wrath by taking the island. The US can't have a communist country 90 miles away from the Key West shores.

To date, narcos carefully avoid the island’s territory, air, and sea spaces, knowing full well that Cuba’s “zero tolerance” policy is serious. But if the government collapses, that may change. President Trump and Secretary Rubio would claim that state collapse is not the plan. But their current policies are pushing Cuba in that direction. Economic warfare has pushed the Cuban economy into a humanitarian crisis. The fuel blockade in place since January has made living conditions unbearable. Cuba has run out of fuel. Hunger is spreading. Water is in short supply. Cuban patients, including infants, are dying for lack of medical care. The goal of this policy of indiscriminate suffering has long been to instigate a popular uprising. Mass discontent may lead to the overthrow of the current government. But in a country without a unified or organized political opposition, it can hardly install a stable and ready alternative. The likeliest outcome of the current approach is either state collapse and a resulting security vacuum, or a long-term US military occupation and nation building project, a task that would have little chance of a better outcome than in Iraq or Afghanistan. Neither of these paths is in the interests of everyday Americans. Nor should they be acceptable to its policymakers. The needs of the Cuban people and the urgent need of US national security both point in the same direction: avoid a war, end indiscriminate economic sanctions, and return to a policy of normalisation, engagement, and cooperation. Increased economic pressure from the U.S. embargo and related sanctions directly contributes to the severe hardships driving Cuban out-migration. Examples include the Mariel boatlift in 1980, the 1994 rafter crisis, and the unprecedented mass exodus between 2021 and 2024, during which over a million Cubans left the island.