Donald Trump says US will take over Cuba ‘almost immediately’

Yep. He's "partly joking" about everything right up until the second he isn't.

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.

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...

Fucking worse than useless press.

This man does not make jokes.

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 got worried for a second.

He needs more distraction

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.

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.

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".

His powers expand if he can claim a state of emergency. He likes to keep lots of them happening

First 1 world country drove into the ground.

America First was the start of Trump's hit list.

“The Aristocrats!”

Speedrunning the end of an empire.

for literally no reason beyond that probably the president was paid by someone to do this

The someone is Rubio, specifically.

Replace "Cubans" with "people" and you've got yourself American foreign policy since WW2.

A quick adventure. In. Out. Nobody will even notice 👍

Because a communist country minding its own business while trying to provide for its people is evil, while a capitalist country bombing country after country non-stop for decades while trying to provide for a handful of billionaire sociopath pedophiles is good.

Still trying to outrun Epstein

Control of trade routes

You hope the impossible. Why would europe give up its imperial benefits for third world solidarity? Anyone that has truly shown third world solidarity were eastern bloc, ussr, etc

That's Rubio getting his rocks off. Hegseth has less of a dog in the Cuban fight because he never clicked on it in a game of Crusader Kings.

Truth

After 70 years of torture

Cuba's current government won't let US businesses extract Cuba's wealth and exploit their citizens.

Ruin Canada's vacation spot.

Central bank architecture

Someone paid him and flattered him, obviously.

imagine asking this question after witnessing the cold war

They fear communism more than anything.

America is already attacking cuba by stopping all oil and energy towards the country, untill they release some political prisoners... according to news, america is holding cuba hostage energy wise... wtf

Same plan as Iran:

1. Send the US military to bomb a bunch of stuff.
2. Iran Immediately folds and capitulates to all our demands.

It’s the most bestest plan ever that only the brilliant minds of Trump & Hegseth could have come up with.

Concepts of a plan

Putin can't do much here. Sanctions on trade are pretty much to highest extent.

You can’t really compare though. Iran is a vast country, and the logistics around re supply is different. Cuba is a morsel.

When his family got out THREE years BEFORE the revolution. So they had to fled FROM BATISTA.

Greenland is currently postponed cause we solidified it in the 150 billion EU-US trade deal, that trump made with ursula, Europe hasn't signed it yet, and added trump-proof guard rails, if trump threatens to take greenland one more time the deal is off the table. And maybe we should make a pact with south america and other nations against american imperialism, the new nato to protect against american aggression

They've been under threat for a long time. I'm sure they're prepared.

They don't have much to prepare. Can't prepare much without power, let alone lights. Night-vision capable forces would have a field day.

I honestly don't know why they went Iran instead of Cuba if they wanted to wave their big dick around.

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.

When was the last time you visited cuba / talked to their people directly?

I went around 2018ish, and your take doesn't track. You're right, Russia doesn't have the heft to support Cuba -- but they haven't had the heft to support Cuba for decades. Most Cubans in their 40s that I met, looked back at the days of a stronger Russia as an ideal time period, where they had more goods available -- they literally long for the good old days when Communism was bigger on the world stage. They clearly associate/blame the USA's actions for causing unnecessary famines and issues. Why on earth would you think people would be favorable to a foreign nation that is literally enacting economic warfare to starve the population?? "Thank you for the boot, may I have another?" What??

One of Cuba's main 'exports', are doctors/medical staff for disasters facing other countries. Becoming a doctor in Cuba is basically free of charge, but you gotta work for the govt for a few years after you graduate -- as a low paid, outsourced worker as part of these relief teams. Cuba's govt charges western-ish rates for assistance, but pays those docs a lot less, pocketing the margin for funding govt activities / programs, such as their medical programs. Practically any country that has had a major natural disaster, has gotten assistance from Cuba in this way, because of how they've structured the program -- so I reckon most of those countries would be friendly to Cuba. "Big" western nations aren't the only 'friends' Cuba can have. Heck, there've been articles from numerous news sources even just recently, noting that increased American aggression on this front is impacting health services in various other countries.

America has a lopsided, bully-oriented, military approach at present. They spend an absolutely absurd amount on their military -- hell, they could probably blow up most of the UKs government if they wanted to, which is why your politicians are being such pussies when it comes to the US going rogue and openly boasting about committing war crimes. They have the operational capacity to attack/destroy most other governments. It's not clear they have the capability to occupy and control additional land / regions though, as evidenced by their fumblings in the middle east in recent past, and in that they didn't stick around in Venezuela (they didn't even topple that regime, just abducted the dictator at the top). Having soft power / the support of the people, is an essential component to that sort of thing -- and seeing as America's recent actions are pissing off / alienating even Western powers, I see no reason why anyone would think they'd have much 'success' in occupying foreign lands. They'd meet active resistance, just like their attempts to setup in Iraq/Afghanistan -- likely to a much larger degree even.

I hate that. Because that means some philosophers are right about modern liberalism. You pretend to have tolerance, freedom, open-debate… until you really want or need something, then you elect a tyrannical leader who will break the rules to get you where you need to be. After that, you collect your wins and the charade of liberalism goes back up.

We need a long reckoning after Trump. Not a win.

Uh huh. 😒

the creation of a new US State of Cuba.

Most certainly not. That would add around 10 million poor possible migrants to the economy overnight. Neither the right or the left would get behind this. A territory, maybe. But not a state.

If you knew why and how nato was formed you wont be asking this.

Aaaw poor snowflake. Do the facts hurt your feel-feels? 😭

Aaaw poor snowflake. Do the facts hurt your feel-feels? 😭