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Josh Aston

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How would you do it?
« on: December 02, 2008, 03:46:04 PM »
Take over Cuba that is.  Hypothetically speaking of course, say a bunch of like minded 2nd Amendment enthusiasts decided to set up a new .gov in Cuba, how would you go about it.  Storm the beaches, airdrops, clandestine infiltration, etc.?  Keep in mind, you have no backup from any .mil, this is just you and a few other people.  How would you fund your takeover force?  What kind of .gov would you set up?  What would you do to maintain a steady economy so that your new .gov and country could thrive?  What kind of laws would you put in place?  Etc., etc.?

Why Cuba? Because, it's the easiest country to reach that wouldn't result in too much political backlash after the current .gov is overthrown.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2008, 03:48:11 PM »
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2008, 03:49:00 PM »
Get a bunch of old A-26's, and...

Wait. That didn't work.

BTW, you'd be pummeled to death by the 90% of Cubans that love their dear leader and now their dear leader's sibling.

Shouting Cuban exiles in Miami whose families lost their stuff when Batista fell =/= Cubans who like their communism. You might as well invade North Korea. The North Korean people would stomp on you.

That's just how things are.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2008, 03:50:30 PM »
Whatever you're tokin, please don't bogart.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2008, 03:52:28 PM »
Seriously with what we all have in our gun safes at home, the flotilla of bass boats, duck blinds and one Sugar Momma, a few private planes for our air force we'd get our asses handed to us by the Cuban Military.

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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2008, 03:55:29 PM »
Quote from: Charby on December 02, 2008, 03:52:28 PM
Seriously with what we all have in our gun safes at home, the flotilla of bass boats, duck blinds and one Sugar Momma, a few private planes for our air force we'd get our asses handed to us by the Cuban Military.



Unless we had Will Smith and Martin Lawrence on our side.

 =D
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2008, 03:56:05 PM »
Puntland. That is all.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2008, 03:56:48 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on December 02, 2008, 03:55:29 PM
Unless we had Will Smith and Martin Lawrence on our side.

 =D

I was thinking more Tom Arnold.

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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2008, 04:17:51 PM »
i have a son who was an army ranger in grenada that can vouch for the cubans fighting style and spirit.
interesting fantasy to have
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2008, 04:22:47 PM »
How would I do it?

I wouldn't.  If anything, I'd shell it from a boat; but that probably wouldn't last long either.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2008, 04:33:20 PM »
Quote from: Josh Aston on December 02, 2008, 03:46:04 PM
Hypothetically speaking of course, say a bunch of like minded 2nd Amendment enthusiasts decided to set up a new .gov in Cuba, how would you go about it.  Storm the beaches, airdrops, clandestine infiltration, etc.? 

Airdrops!  But not troops or bombs. 

Drop Lazy Boy chairs, new cars, huge LCD TVs, cases of beer and pallets of gourmet food, all on huge parachutes.  Let them live it up for about a week and ponder what it all means.

Then drop millions of fliers filled with capitalist propaganda, suggesting that if they overthrow the regime there will be plenty more where that came from.

Oh, and Jamis' wife can pay for all the air-dropped stuff.   =D
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2008, 05:12:16 PM »
count me out. my hair would frizz in that humidity.

hmmmm.....

well maybe, the frizz is a potant weapon.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2008, 05:48:45 PM »
Why don't we just start with someplace like Iceland instead ?   :rolleyes:

We could probably take up a collection and just buy it right now ;)
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2008, 05:51:24 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on December 02, 2008, 05:48:45 PM
Why don't we just start with someplace like Iceland instead ?   :rolleyes:

We could probably take up a collection and just buy it right now ;)

You can buy it cheap, but you couldn't invade.

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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2008, 05:51:32 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on December 02, 2008, 05:48:45 PM
Why don't we just start with someplace like Iceland instead ?   :rolleyes:

We could probably take up a collection and just buy it right now ;)

Because it's cold there.  ;/
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Re: How would you do it?
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2008, 06:30:05 PM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on December 02, 2008, 06:03:28 PM
It is?




Too cold for me, anyway.  I prefer the nice, balmy Caribbean weather.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2008, 06:30:39 PM »
Construct the world's longest pontoon bridge from FL to Cuba and wait for it to empty out.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2008, 06:45:34 PM »
Quote from: jfruser on December 02, 2008, 06:30:39 PM
Construct the world's longest pontoon bridge from FL to Cuba and wait for it to empty out.

I was going to post "why bother?" until I read this. 
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2008, 07:13:12 PM »
Quote from: jfruser on December 02, 2008, 06:30:39 PM
Construct the world's longest pontoon bridge from FL to Cuba and wait for it to empty out.

Thread win.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2008, 11:38:03 PM »
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Take over Cuba that is.
I figure I would follow Castro's model if I wanted to take over Cuba. It seems to have worked for him.
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2008, 01:41:32 AM »
Take over Cuba?
 
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2008, 06:31:22 AM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on December 02, 2008, 05:51:24 PM
You can buy it cheap, but you couldn't invade.

"We claim this land in the na..." (Icelandic women walk by.) "...um...Hi!"

and you wouldn't have the same problem with cuban women dressed in flowery bits of nothing?

and another big argument for allowing women in combat (we don't get as distracted by the, ahem, local scenery)  =D
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #23 on: December 03, 2008, 11:36:43 AM »
Cuba will become a resort haven that will put the rest of the Caribbean to shame.

The best way to take it over is to invest in beach front real estate, deep water cruise ship ports, and air transportation hubs

The europeans are already there
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Re: How would you do it?
« Reply #24 on: December 03, 2008, 11:55:37 AM »
Wal-Mart.
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