One thing that is interesting is that the Cubans never got involved in the war in anyway - the official canon is that they were too scared to get nuked by the US but by 2000 that is not exactly a huge threat (as the canon implies that any warheads the US has left have all been taken to Colorado Springs - at least as to the ones at airbases or in missile silos).
The one thing that probably kept them out was oil and gas supplies - they basically were depending on the Soviets pretty much exclusively at that time. However you would figure that would make them even more prone to join the war to try to grab any supplies they could once the US started to fall apart in 1999.
Maybe they put all their eggs into Africa in the V1 timeline and between that and supplying the Soviet Division Cuba with equipment they dont have much left in the way of armor or mechanized equipment.
I usually use V1 by the way mainly because of the paucity of official releases for V2
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