There are so many different ways that each of these countries (Cuba and Iran) can go in the future. Im much more interested in Cuba, so I'll be talking about that the most in this blog.
Cuba: There are a few ways that Cuba could go. If it repeated its past history, we would probably see some foreign invader come in soon to take over the country. After a long time of that country being in rule, Cuba would attempt to kick them out and sever all foreign relations in the process. They would then have no money, and basically be back where they are today. That was a bit extreme, but that's kinda whats happened in the past more than once. Maybe I should start this over and state what position Cuba is in right now and go from there. Cuba is basically in a very poor economic state, led by an oppressive government, with almost no foreign relations. They're also in a very bad spot with the United States. Basically, the US has offered to reconsider the trade embargo under some terms of Cuba, but cuba just completely blew them off. But I don't know enough about this topic to give any more information. But I see a few realistic options for Cuba's near future. Either they stay the way they are and continue to spiral down into economic depression, they make more foreign relations and stimulate their economy by trading whatever it is that they have, or they could just completely lighten up and do things like letting people start their own businesses and stuff. I mean, they've done a little of that, but from some of the videos that we've watched in class, it looks like a long and tedious process that makes you really have to want to open up your own business. If it were up to me, this is the choice that I would do. I would give them most or all of the freedoms that Americans have including property rights, speech rights, and even some of the things that we don't think about as much like running businesses and being able to buy stuff.
