'Peak Obama doctrine': Admin's 'new buddy' Cuba reportedly in Syria helping Putin, Assad

A few years ago, Hillary Clinton was overseas offering a reset button to the Russians, and this summer the White House was trumpeting their “historic” reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba and reopening an embassy in Havana (where John Kerry felt “very much at home”).

How are those initiatives working out?

Report: Cuba sends troops to Syria to help Russia and Assad. http://t.co/4aLniWaryT ( h/t @MarcACaputo)

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 15, 2015

https://twitter.com/MN_Love/status/654604593851166720

Way to go, Smart Power™!

@chucktodd @MarcACaputo #US & @BarackObama blindsided again

— Maurice A. Phillips. (@MoorTalk46) October 15, 2015

@chucktodd @MarcACaputo I wonder if people will now realize that the Castros are gangsters, and they are laughing at US "diplomacy."

— Fergus Hodgson (@FergHodgson) October 15, 2015

https://twitter.com/LindaLeigh226/status/654618573646757888

@chucktodd @MarcACaputo @PanAmPost wow! We just look more and more foolish.. This is pathetic!

— BudEE (@BcG1426) October 15, 2015

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Didn't Tom Clancy write this? https://t.co/aY0nC3U0ys

— STEW ??? ⚾️ ? (@StewSays) October 15, 2015

Life & times in 2015: https://t.co/ncTCv3SZTS

— Holly (@HollyASwanson) October 15, 2015

https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/654624249156640768

On top of it all, Castro is demanding payment from the U.S.

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