The protests should be a decision-forcing event for the Biden administration. In the next few weeks, Biden will have to make a fateful choice. He can slide Cuba to the back burner of his agenda once again in the hope that the crisis on the island will subside without any U.S. action. Or he can act decisively, announcing a policy aimed at reducing the suffering of the Cuban people by lifting Trump’s sanctions—as he promised to do during the presidential campaign. The first option is tempting. Continuing to wait-and-see avoids actions that might complicate the Democrats’ 2022 political aspirations in Florida, because any relaxation of Trump’s sanctions will be denounced by Republicans as throwing a lifeline to the sinking Cuban regime. In fact, Sen. Marco Rubio even denounced Biden’s statement of support for the protesters because it wasn’t tough enough. But this option does nothing to relieve the underlying economic desperation and social tension that led to the Cuban protests in the first place. Those will continue to grow, and if a crackdown on dissidents by Cuban authorities prevents a new cycle of demonstrations, those tensions may manifest themselves next time in a migration crisis that will cause Biden worse political problems than pursuing a policy of renewed engagement.