It's more that the US (Canada too) has been at the imperialist stage of capitalism for a century. The fact that many Statesians support this system is because it benefits them materially. It's logical, and thus trying to view it as irrational behavior leads us to ineffective means of combatting it.

Venezuela hasn't been overthrown. The commune movement is still alive and well, and the reactionary elements still oppose the PSUV. It's still an incomplete revolution, one with its hands tied and had to make concessions it did not want to. The Cuban revolution already succeeded, and thus has far more political stability.

The PCC ended the colonialism of Cuba that was making the US quite a lot of profit, and the Statesian ruling class never forgave the communists.

Maybe the Cuban missile crisis? I don't know and never understood it, however, Obama had pretty much ended all that, the the orange idiot showed up.

More like Trump wanting to get the Cuban emigre vote as well as being poised to declare war to finish what Kennedy wasn't able to do.

I guess, but Cuba is so small there's nor really anything to be gained by colonizing it.

I had to look up these numbers to put it in an American/tRump context.

It's about the size of the USA states of Virginia or Tennessee. About 3.5x the size of Hawaii and 9x the size of Puerto Rico.

It would be 36/57 of USA state, federal district, or territory by size.

They're also butt hurt since their invasion failed at the Bay of Pigs.

None of that justifies a USA takeover of a foreign country. The only people that can decide Cuba's future are the Cuban people.

Edit: In a European context it would rank 17/50 in size between Iceland and Bulgaria. Bigger than either Hungary, Portugal, Austria, or Ireland to name a few.