Nicaragua proposes that the United States airlift Cubans stranded in Costa Rica

This is Nicaraguan anti-US humor, as well as brinkmanship, and I confess to enjoying both.

Nicaragua knows that no way will the US airlift the Cubans to the US, and further knows that the reason it won’t has nothing with lack of resources. The reason the US won’t airlift the Cubans is because that conflicts with its idiotic policy on Cuban immigrants, which welcomes them after they arrive on their own but refuses to help them come, even turns them away if they haven’t quite made it. Embarrassment over this idiotic policy is the sticking point for the US, and embarrassment will prevent it directly assisting.

In this, the US is like a well-dressed dignified man whose pants have just fallen down, and Nicas are like the kids pointing and laughing at his underwear. It’s not a serious proposal, only Nicas slapping their knees in glee over the embarrassing jam the US has gotten itself into.

Of course, there is the serious brinkmanship note. Idiotic US policy is the crux of the problem, and common sense by the US could and should fix it in a finger snap. So Nicaragua is daring Uncle Sam to fix the mess it created.

However, Nicas know that Uncle Sam, pants down to his ankles and sporting boxer shorts with hearts, isn’t likely to use common sense and fix the problem, so they’re just pointing and laughing.

There may eventually be some international cooperation, including even face-saving gestures from the US, but the main solution to this problem is going to have to come from Costa Rica.

Costa Rica is like a poodle Uncle Sam was walking that humped his leg and caused his pants to fall down. Uncle Sam is going to blame the poodle, not his suspenders. The poodle is now the one held responsible.

And the Nicas are laughing at both.