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I love the idea. The land area seems kind of small, but the deep-water port more than makes up for it.

It will sure piss off the Cuban Communist party!

By the way, I also wrote some articles on the Freedom City concept before Trump ever came out in favor of the idea. I also profiled the idea in my second book.

I think the American Mountain West offers many possible sites. It has massive amounts of relatively flat federal land and major freeways running right through the middle.

I would recommend experimenting with the idea by allowing suburbs to be built in the federal lands around Las Vegas. As far as I know Las Vegas is the only major metro region surrounded by large amounts of relatively flat federal land. Seems like a perfect test site.

I write more here:

https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/did-donald-trump-steal-my-freedom

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One problem: I doubt that there is *any* support for lifting the stupid Cuban embargo in the Republican party. (Or the Dems either. They'd have to admit that what they did to Cuba for the last 40+ years, i.e. basically since the fall of the German wall, made no sense whatsoever.)

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Who talked about lifting the embargo?

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I think this is brilliant. Made me laugh out loud (in a good way)

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It’s a good idea. Especially after we diplomatically make Cuba part of Florida

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And Greenland part of Maine. Canada is north North Dakota.

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interesting concept. it would be like hong kong when it was a british port with a communist country just across the border.

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That’s exactly what it would be!

And it was good for both Hong Kong and China. That’s where Shenzhen comes from!

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What a truly horrendous idea. Guantanamo is a colonial vestige, extracted from Cuba at gunpoint. It is occupied territory, not part of the US.

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As a Cuban American myself, I support it 💪

If it’s sold right, you’d likely get many Cubans in Miami to support this idea as a way to further embarrass the communist regime.

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Trump will MAKE IT GREATER

If Guantanamo is too small, take Cuba in total ;-))

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Between Canada and Greenland

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