Nobody cares about the missiles anymore, nor the embarrassment of our failed invasion of the island. I mean, hell, we're friendly with Vietnam these days. It's

Nobody cares about the missiles anymore, nor the embarrassment of our failed invasion of the island. I mean, hell, we're friendly with Vietnam these days. It's almost entirely due to one of the shitty aspects of how US elections work. Enough Floridian ex-Cubans and their descendants, who got their land and businesses seized, are against warming relations at all, that moving that direction is seen as risky for Presidential hopefuls—which would hardly matter if we had a national popular vote for President, but instead, it's state-by-state and (mostly) winner-take-all at the state level, so that constituency's power is greatly multiplied by their mostly living in one "swing" state with a high elector count. Miami doesn't want us to stop stepping on Cuba's throat, so we keep doing it. Why do we listen to Miami? Because our elections are dumb and bad and we (and Cuba) were unlucky with where Cuban refugees/exiles settled.