Citing a Wall Street Journal report from last month in which anonymous US officials claim that Havana has entered negotiations with Beijing for a possible future joint military training facility in Cuba, Bolton argues that the US must use any amount of aggression necessary to prevent this facility's construction, up to and including regime change interventionism.

"The potential of significant Chinese facilities in Cuba is a red-flag threat to America," Bolton writes, arguing that such activities "could well camouflage offensive weapons, delivery systems or other threatening capabilities."

"For example, hypersonic cruise missiles, already harder to detect, track, and destroy than ballistic missiles, are natural candidates for installation in Cuba, a prospect we cannot tolerate, along with many other risks, like a Chinese submarine base," he adds.

All of which are arguments that could be made pretty much note-for-note by Russia and China about the ways the US has been threatening their security interests with war machinery in their immediate surroundings.

Arguing that the US is "bound by no commitment limiting our use of force," Bolton advocates "Revoking diplomatic relations with Cuba; increased economic sanctions against both China and Cuba; and far stricter implementation of existing sanctions" as an immediate response to this reported development, advocating regime change interventionism as an ultimate solution to Cuba's disobedient behavior.

"Had Presidents Eisenhower or Kennedy acted more forcefully and effectively against Castro, we might have avoided many perilous Cold War crises, sparing us decades of strategic concern, not to mention the repression of Cuba's people," Bolton writes, adding, "With Beijing's threat rising, we should not miss today's moment without seriously reconsidering how to return this geographically critical island to its own people's friendlier hands."

Bolton notes that Guantanamo Bay "remains fully available to us today" for any operations the US should choose to avail itself of to topple Havana.

This would be the same John Bolton who in 2002 falsely accused Cuba of having a biological weapons program in a bid to sweep the island up in the same post-9/11 war push he was helping the US construct against Iraq with extreme aggression.