In the wake of the US takeover of Venezuela and speculation about Donald Trump’s confiscation of the country’s bitcoin (BTC) for the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR), another possible target for state bitcoin seizure might be Cuba.

Already this week, there’s widespread speculation among Cubans that Trump is coming next for the regime assets of Miguel Díaz-Canel, the successor to Raúl and Fidel Castro.

Last week, the president ordered the US military to extradite Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, administrate the entire country, and extract tens of millions of oil barrels. The sudden news sparked speculation that the US might confiscate up to $60 billion worth of his regime’s supposed BTC “shadow reserve.”

Moreover, Trump explicitly revived the Monroe Doctrine as a warning to other Western Hemisphere countries, stamping his brassy name onto it as this year’s “Donroe Doctrine.”

The Monroe Doctrine was originally a bluff, warning Europe about supposed US military control of the Western Hemisphere. At inception in the 1820s, of course, the US lacked a military to back up its threat, quietly relying on the British navy to enforce the doctrine.

Today, the US military certainly has more ability to control the Western Hemisphere, with Cuba a communist country of obvious geographic importance.

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