It’s being reported that before Joe Biden leaves office, he’s going to remove Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism and hope that it will compel the communist country to release their political prisoners.

Here’s the reporting from Politico:

President Joe Biden is removing Cuba from a U.S. government list of state sponsors of terrorism on Tuesday, according to administration officials.

That move, and a number of other conciliatory actions, are being taken in the hope of securing the release of political prisoners on the island, the officials told reporters in a briefing ahead of the announcement.

It could be a significant breakthrough in the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, though President-elect Donald Trump may choose to reverse the decisions.

The officials said the White House also will suspend a provision of the Helms-Burton Act which has allowed Cuban exiles living in the United States to file claims against Havana in court and seek compensation for assets expropriated following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. The administration will also eliminate a list of restricted Cuban entities barred from certain financial transactions during the first Trump administration.

The Biden administration has long wanted to see Cuba release hundreds of political prisoners in Cuban custody following mass pro-democracy protests in July 2021. The Catholic Church is leading negotiations for their release and one of the administration officials said considerable progress has been toward a deal for freeing a “significant” number of the dissidents. The officials provided the briefing on the condition that they not be named.

Both Havana and Washington said in 2024 the other needed to do more before further rapprochement between both countries could occur. Cuba consistently and specifically pointed to the state sponsor of terrorism designation as a major obstacle to improving relations.

In a statement, Cuba’s foreign ministry said the announcement “rectifies, in a very limited way, some aspects of a cruel and unjust policy,” but insisted it would continue to condemn the United States’ “genocidal and illegal economic suffocation policy against Cuba.” Cuba also announced that it notified the Vatican it would release prisoners.

The Biden administration officials said that they were in contact with figures in the incoming Trump administration about the policy changes.

This will be undone by President Trump and Cuba surely knows this and thus I don’t believe they’ll release any prisoners to the US.

But this is really a fitting end to Joe Biden’s foreign policy of weakness. Instead of using sanctions and such to force Cuba to release the prisoners, he gives the whatever they want and begs.

Meanwhile, Mark Levin points out how absurd this is, especially considering Cuba supports Hezbollah and Iran: