Trump himself has alluded to this possibility by saying that he could "take Cuba" or "Cuba's next." That's assuming, of course, that the Cuban people haven't already succumbed to mass starvation and illness as a result of Trump's and the Pentagon's brutal and ruthless oil blockade on the island.

The possibility that Trump, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA will attack another sovereign and independent country that has never attacked the United States can't help but bring to mind President John F. Kennedy as well as the war that he was waging at the end of his life, not against Cuba but rather against the U.S. national-security establishment itself.

Of course, Trump could point to the fact that Kennedy himself authorized or ordered a U.S. attack on Cuba. That was at Cuba's Bay of Pigs, a CIA-organized invasion conducted by Cuban exiles who had been trained and supervised by the CIA.

The attack turned out to be a catastrophe. The invaders were all captured or killed by Cuba's communist armed forces, an event that the CIA has clearly never gotten over.

But there was right after JFK took office in 1961. There was no doubt that at that point he was a standard Cold Warrior. Like most other Americans, JFK had been inculcated with the notion that the Reds were coming to get us and, therefore, that the mere presence of a communist regime in Cuba posed a grave threat to the "national security" of the United States.

After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy realized that the CIA had set him up. The CIA had assured him that no U.S. air support would be necessary to win the war. It was an intentional, deliberate, and knowing lie. The CIA figured that once the battle began, Kennedy would have no practical choice. He would have to provide the air support to avoid losing the war to the Reds.

Kennedy stuck by his guns and the CIA's attack on Cuba went down to defeat. Furious, Kennedy vowed to destroy the CIA. Unfortunately, he was not successful in that effort.

But the war between Kennedy and the CIA continued, especially since the CIA, for its part, was convinced that Kennedy was a soft-on-communism, weak, cowardly, and incompetent president.

Even though Kennedy went to war against the CIA in 1961, he continued to be a standard Cold Warrior. However, with each passing day, he was getting closer to achieving a monumental "breakthrough" that would enable him to see the national-security establishment's Cold War as the deadly and destructive racket it was.

Playing a role in his approaching breakthrough was Operation Northwoods, the top-secret infamous plan of the Pentagon to have JFK undertake a false-flag operation, one in which innocent people would be killed, to serve as a false and fraudulent justification for attacking Cuba. To Kennedy's everlasting credit, he rejected Operation Northwoods.

Also playing a role in JFK's approaching breakthrough was the Pentagon's proposal for initiating a surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, arguing that we would "win" the war because "we" would have more people standing at the end of the war than "they" would. Kennedy left that meeting indignantly exclaiming to an aide, "And we call ourselves the human race."

It was during the Cuban Missile Crisis that Kennedy fully achieved his breakthrough, which enabled him to clearly see the national-security establishment's Cold War against the Reds for what it was — one great big deadly and destructive racket.