President Donald Trump said Friday during remarks in Florida that the United States would take over Cuba “almost immediately,” suggesting an aircraft carrier could be positioned offshore after the conflict in Iran.
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While the president’s comments appeared partly joking, they followed concrete policy action in the form of broadened sanctions.
It’ll be total control almost as fast as his total control over Iran.
What’s the clear and present danger for this one again?
The article says “partly joking”, but it would be insane to not take the US President seriously when he says stuff like that.
He no doubt does want to do a regime change operation against Cuba. It’s just the resources are tied up with trying to get Iran to re-open the strait, give up their nuclear program, and disband the Axis of Resistance Network.
Result is the US is not coming and any change has to happen inside the country. Which isn’t going to happen thanks to the US starving the people of needed resources
The US will use up all it’s ammo on these operations and squander all it’s goodwill with allies, then someone will probably attack it’s interests around the world.
I for one will welcome our new Chinese overlords, as long as they install solar everywhere and execute a bunch of billionaires.
Certainly will get the panels. But the Billionaires are safe so long as they pay the party tribute
Result is the US is not coming and any change has to happen inside the country.
And the Cuban people overall like their government. Any pressing issues are wholly the fault of the USA, as far as can be assessed.
Sorry but from the information I can gather the Cuban people have similar opinions as Iranians have for their government.
They don’t like them, with real reason for no revolution because the US is not genuinely helping the people but trying to get their own oligarchs in power.
With both sides shooting the best the people in the middle can do is keep their head down and survive (unfortunately)
No they don’t lmao. Only the old generations still alive after the Revolution when they kicked out the USA are still die-hards. Most of the younger to middle aged people in general hate the Cuban government. How couldn’t they? They live the life while regular ppl have nothing due to the horrible sanctions by the USA. You don’t win hearts and minds with poverty, hunger, disease and death.
I doubt the Cuban people blame their government for illegal USA sanctions.
Yes they do. Spent 2 months there in March last year.
Lol 🤓
Sounds misplaced, then, because they are being sanctioned by the US for literally just existing as an independent country
Were the margaritas warm?
While the Cuban people don’t love the sanctions the reason for anti-goverment sentiment is the state apparatus not looking like doing anything to resolve the crisis but put more in the so called revolutionary defense committee and security institutions
but put more in the so called revolutionary defense committee and security institutions
I mean, maybe rightfully so since they’ve been threatened constantly for the past year.
And where do those threats come from? What I refer to is internal enforcement, IE concern of a threat on the Island.
Exactly
suggesting an aircraft carrier could be positioned offshore after the conflict in Iran.
Don’t worry, the “conflict” in Iran isn’t ending any time soon…
What are you talking about? It ended at least three times already this year!
That’s so much winning, I just can’t keep up.
Maybe if he ends the war a few more times he’ll finally get that peace prize…
Fucking worse than useless press.
This man does not make jokes.
Yep. He’s “partly joking” about everything right up until the second he isn’t.
Whats even more crazy is you can show a MAGA an old statement of his and they say he is joking. Then show them him acting on that statement and you can actually see their brain melt.
That’s what we call sane washing. He’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, his words have weight, this is not some crazy guy on the street corner.
Just a crazy guy in the oval office
Remove the ovals, put him back on the corner!
A three day special operation?
A quick adventure. In. Out. Nobody will even notice 👍
After the conflict with Iran?
The conflict that you’re currently “winning”?
I got worried for a second.
Iran is a quagmire but only has a tiny fraction of our military involved, so there’s plenty of capacity for more war to shift the narrative.
He needs more distraction
He has won it and ended it completely at least (checks notes) 17 times now! Nobody has ever ended the same war that many times in all of history!
I hear a PGA peace prize is in the works
he thinks he will outlive us
Helping Marco Rubio fulfill his lifelong dream.
When his family got out THREE years BEFORE the revolution. So they had to fled FROM BATISTA.
I’ve heard this one before
Gotta distract from the failure of his pointless war in Iran by starting a new pointless war with a country that’s more vulnerable…
Fucking fascist.
His powers expand if he can claim a state of emergency. He likes to keep lots of them happening
Some serious Palpatine energy…
Peace President keeping up the peace with yet another war.
If the US went in with the big stick, Cuba would fall in a week. Russia doesn’t have the heft to support Cuba at this time and a China doesn’t have the tradition and reach. Most Cubans have deep connections with the US and they know the different in quality of life. There’s be very little support from the population towards the regime. Cuba has barely any friends internationally.
That doesn’t make it right. But of all the countries to “take”, Cuba would be the simplest for the US. And Trump might just be mad enough to do it.
I honestly don’t know why they went Iran instead of Cuba if they wanted to wave their big dick around.
I’ve seen reports that Trump was going to go for Greenland and his advisors shifted his attention to Iran instead. There was also that time Trump leaked Macron’s message where Macron said he’d support Trump with Iran if he backed off Greenland.
Completely agree. Iran of all places - I genuinely think he believed he could somehow force a better deal than Obama. Talk about not understanding the regime.
You are vastly underestimating cuban peoples commitment to the revolution (they on avg have better QOL than an avg american). Calling it regime you are manufacturing consent for invasion but again you are western british chauvinist so this is expected.
If the US went in with the big stick, Cuba would fall in a week
The US has been in with the big stick for 50+ years against Cuba and they’ve resisted not just fine but with a higher life expectancy than the US.
Most Cubans have deep connections with the US and they know the different in quality of life
And most Cubans are aware that the reason is the economic embargo, and that at least they can afford rent and healthcare unlike yanks.
There’s be very little support from the population towards the regime
You’re absolutely making that up.
Cubans are better educated than Americans. They know why they kicked the American mobs out of Cuba.
America First is going great
First 1 world country drove into the ground.
Nah, it’s only first world if you are wealthy, white, male, and christian. Everyone else gets sparking individualism.
Remember when our heads felt so quiet, because we were not constantly bombarded by the shit coming out of the president of the united states mouth? I miss that blessed time.
Read: Two more weeks.
In other news: the US is runnig out of ammo. Yeah sure, let’s open up a new front.
Dementeid old fool.
don’t worry… he already forgot that he is at war with Iran. he has to be reminded of it hourly.
Not the same kind of tools would be used in a war with Cuba. In this scenario, the US has already the homefield advantage by controlling the gulf of “America”.
Never heard of that
the US is runnig out of ammo
If I had a dollar for every time I read the “American military running out of ammo” story, I’d be richer than a Lockheed executive.
Americans are so easily gaslit on this shit. You can jump out behind a corner shouting “We don’t have enough tomahawk missiles!” and they’ll reflexively hand you $20B.
It’s not that it can’t be true they’ve expended a significant part of the stockpiles, it’s more that the implication isn’t that they won’t be able to prosecute the ongoing or another war, just that they’ll be somewhat limited by it and that if shit really hit the fan in the form of China for example they want to have a stab at it too then they could be in more trouble.
Reminds me a lot of the similar stockpile counting with regards to Russia in Ukraine.
they’ve expended a significant part of the stockpiles
And they’re using supplies faster than they’re restocking. But they’re also running out of targets and slowly Iran’s capacity to fire ballistic missiles in kind.
So we get hysterical coverage of what is normal and expected changes in munitions to drive stone broader narrative of military resumes and whose to blame.
FUCKING WHY
imagine asking this question after witnessing the cold war
They fear communism more than anything.
Ruin Canada’s vacation spot.
Central bank architecture
Cuba’s current government won’t let US businesses extract Cuba’s wealth and exploit their citizens.
After 70 years of torture
