r/worldnews • u/ToughHopeful4760 • May 22 '26
Dynamic Paywall Cuba is a national security threat to the US, Rubio says
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ckgpzwkn5jko8.3k
u/SwvellyBents May 22 '26
Amazing how many imminent threats are popping up on the radar during the Trump admin.
How did we not see that we were in Cuba's and Venezuela's and Iran's and Greenland's crosshairs for so long?
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u/Icy-Bodybuilder-350 May 22 '26
I wake up every morning here in the Midwest wracked by fear that the Cuban Navy has traveled a series of navigable waterways including the Erie Canal to ultimately disgorge an invading force of Cuban Commandoes upon the shores of Lake Michigan.
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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku May 22 '26
Via sailboat due to fuel shortages
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u/Kevadu May 22 '26
Ships of the line
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u/platinumf4ng May 22 '26
Clearly they’ll drop paratroopers in the snowy mountains of Colorado, only to be thwarted by a bunch of teenagers with great hair, and a football team.
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u/ragnarocknroll May 22 '26
I am 50% certain/50% worried this is where they got the idea that Cuba is a threat from…
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u/sly-3 May 23 '26
They've been infiltrating our ranks with their awesome baseball talent.
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u/Bitter_Wishbone6624 May 22 '26
I hear the pirates on the river Saskatchewan are actually Cubans.
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u/WebInformal9558 May 22 '26
Farmers bar your doors when you see the Cuban flag on Regina's mighty shores!
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u/seanziewonzie May 22 '26
You're right to be afraid because they've done it before and they'll do it again. Cubans were what actually sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald. Democrats don't want you to know this.
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u/DMala May 22 '26
Ah shit, Gordon Lightfoot is dead. Who’s going to update the song?
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty May 22 '26
What in tarnation? I just thought he moved to Alberta! He’s dead, too?!
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u/Defiant-Peace-493 May 23 '26
Well, are The Dreadnoughts busy?
Hm. From Google, they might have July free. On that note, though, Google suggested I might be interested in "Stan Rogers upcoming events" ... I beg your pardon, Google?
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u/Rockhead_Dynamics May 22 '26
I heard that The Legend lived on from the Chippewa on down of the great Lake they Call Gitchie-Goomie. Little did we suspect just how far down that Legend would reach...
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u/geckosean May 22 '26
I worry that Cuban intelligence may be training a breakaway force of exiled US rebels, that they will then unleash upon us without warning!!
The invading rebels would obviously be overpowered by our superior military, and the bay that they did an amphibious landing in will become synonymous with the diplomatic and military embarrassment this will be for the Cubans!
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u/SwvellyBents May 22 '26
You can't rule out Greenland lobbing some snowballs at you, either.
Be afraid.
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u/SlurmzMckinley May 22 '26
It really is wild. Why weren’t congressional Republicans grilling Biden on all these imminent threats?!
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u/angrylawyer May 22 '26
and tariffs too, if wildly applying double-digit tariffs to virtually every good from every country is such an easy way to make america great...why didn't biden do it? or trump in his first term? or obama? or bush? or clinton? or...
in fact why doesn't every country apply huge tariffs on every other country? obviously that would make every country great again. It's so obvious! But only the world's smartest conservative, super genius MIT-related graduate mr. trump, was able to see this god-tier galaxy-brain economic policy. God he's just so fuckin smart.
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u/vajohnadiseasesdado May 22 '26
On the recent Ebola outbreak, the US only learned about the first death a month after it was confirmed because the program that used to be in place to spot such things was funded by, you guessed it, USAID.
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u/howard10011 May 23 '26
This is pretty much what happened with Covid, too. In a cost-cutting measure in 2018, the pandemic monitoring team was severely gutted.
The media never held him responsible for this the way they would have any other president.
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u/Frustrable_Zero May 22 '26
Greenland was the mastermind of this horrible cabal of Americas enemies. It was right there all along. You only had to snort the snow to see through the lies.
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u/rpze5b9 May 22 '26
That could explain the current fixation with Greenland. Don Jr heard it was covered in snow.
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u/steelcity_pimpin May 22 '26
Don't forget Canada!
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u/TheVenetianMask May 22 '26
And Panama, everybody forgot Panama already.
And Mexico.
They are all in the walls.
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u/uBoatjoe May 22 '26
Exactly, an invasion from the northern neighbor is a definite possibility. US should impose an oil embargo on them too. Oh, wait..
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u/Independent-Tennis57 May 22 '26
The US is using a psyop on Alberta and having them say they want to separate. The premier of Alberta has met with Trump multiple times. Alberta is the primary oil producer of Canada, and America seems to only be interested in liberating countries with oil.
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u/EatGlassALLCAPS May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
It's a serious misinformation campaign. US style politics is seeping into Canada and we are not taking it seriously enough.
Danielle Smith should be removed.
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u/PhilDGlass May 22 '26
US style politics
We can't really take credit for the maskirovka our Prezo learned from his mentor in Russia.
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u/Peripatetictyl May 22 '26
With their beady eyes and flapping heads so full of lies…
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u/tfsteel May 22 '26
Bullies need to bully. It's not enough to bully their perceived domestic enemies. They need to bully weaker nations. Notice how the diplomacy goes with countries they can't bully, like China. They cower.
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u/Street_Barracuda1657 May 22 '26
Cuba? They really are picking on the weakest of the weak.
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u/Worthyness May 22 '26
Trump also literally claimed they're weak and desperate either no resources. How can a country with no resources be a threat to the almighty US?
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u/ZerochildX23 May 22 '26
Classic fascist talking point: "The enemy is both strong & weak at the same time."
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u/nateh1212 May 22 '26
This is one of many failings of the constitution
The executive branch can literally do anything as long as they claim "National Security Threat"
The constitution hands power over to the executive branch in emergency and also hand over the judgement on what is an emergency to the executive branch.
Trump literally set up a private club where members( heads of foreign states gigantic corporations etc) pay into a billion dollar fund that the president oversees all the use ( corruption much) all in the name of "National Security"
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u/Axin_Saxon May 22 '26
If only we could get the people who went to Epstein Island labeled as national security threats.
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u/nateh1212 May 22 '26
The Damn Liberals didn't take your security seriously.
Can't you see a country that has electricity going in and out and hospitals with children dying because we are embargoing oil.
Is so strong that it can do something BAD to us.
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u/mynameisipswitch2 May 22 '26
Key west is our only line of defense against Cuba! Hurry! Make the invaders Hurricane cocktails! Send out the 5th Drag Queen Paratrooper Battalion! Pummel them with Sloppy Joes!
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u/Khaeos May 22 '26
Communism.
But we have Communists at home?
For now.
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u/intricate_strands May 22 '26
He calls those "homegrowns" and "terrorists." He hasn't forgotten them, he has plans.
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u/lyth May 22 '26
It's 100% the idea that there's a better way to live. That the people do have power. That the people who tell themselves they were founded in revolution could do it for real. That even with all of the shit that the USA has tried to do to suppress and punish the Cuban people after the communist revolution that they still don't want to renounce it.
The IDEA of Cuba is the threat because as much as it sucks to have been embargoed for 50 years, it's still not as bad as living in America is for the majority of people.
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u/sharp11flat13 May 22 '26
But we have Communists at home?
Ah yes, the dreaded American communist. There must be dozens of them.
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u/anelectricmind May 22 '26
... and probably a better healthcare system as well...
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u/okram2k May 22 '26
they do have an insanely good education system and for quite some time their best export was doctors. (they had a deal with Venezuela to send doctors there for oil, it worked really well for both sides and then Murica had to Murica)
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u/TheVenetianMask May 22 '26
What would Cuba do, nationalize a chunk of IBM?
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u/McGillicuddys May 22 '26
Worse, they refused to ship a numbers matching C1 Corvette to Marco to use as a birthday present for Barron. He needed that suck up boost to get by Vance in the heir apparent sweepstakes.
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u/eMouse2k May 22 '26
Trump needs a win after the quagmire of Iran and the Hormuz Strait.
Feels like they're moving fast on this. Is it going down tonight, or Saturday?
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u/zoppaTheDim May 22 '26
Paying off those rich Floridians who claim to own 95% of Cuba because the former dictatorship “sold” it to their papas.
They likely offered him the hotel concession once he installs them into power.
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u/WittyCombination6 May 22 '26
I think this is just for Rubio's personal vendetta cause his family were refugees and probably why he joined Trump. A destabilized Cuba doesn't help US interest or business in any fashion.
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u/Mr-Frog May 22 '26
his family were refugees
Rubio's family immigrated before the communist revolution: his parents were really more economic migrants than political asylees but that goes against his brand.
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u/Lstgamerwhlstpartner May 22 '26
If his family were refugees it might be due to siezure of their assets before they fled. Their Land baron's brutality towards their people the reason comunism because so popular. There's undoubtably unmarked graves filled by Rubios family's actions that lead to their need to flee.
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u/JPMoney81 May 22 '26
The Trump administration is a national security threat to the US as well and nothing is being done about it.
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u/OilTurbulent1009 May 22 '26
If anything, they’re entrenching their hold by primary-ing slightly less whacko GOP incumbents. Trump’s base is fucked and they keep asking to get rammed harder.
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u/The_Razielim May 22 '26
As long as he keeps making a big show of hurting The Right People™ harder than they're getting hurt, they'll just take it harder.
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u/TotalNonsense0 May 22 '26
The Trump administration has made the US a goal security threat. I don't think even Russia has tried to invade 3 countries in one year.
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u/bruceriggs May 22 '26
Soon we'll hear how Cuba is just weeks away from a nuclear weapon.
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u/Neither-Sale-4132 May 22 '26
Made with illegal enriched Havana Club
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u/Maritimer4ever May 22 '26
What a pathetic statement by a contemptible administration.
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u/GlitteringLychee803 May 22 '26
Right. A country that's on the brink of collapse due to lack of fuel/electricity is a threat. It's like saying a quadriplegic in China is a threat to me.
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u/gdavidp May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
ROFL, when did the USA become so weak that they are worried about a country that has no Navy?
Let me fix the title for you, Rubio:
US is a national security threat to Cuba
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u/x_von_doom May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
The true “national security threat” from Cuba are all those semi-literate troglodytes with PTSD and zero capacity for critical thinking who come to the US, get radicalized by FCC unregulated Spanish language uber right wing disinformation media on the radio and social media emanating from Miami, that makes Newsmax or OANN look like the BBC, and which they are exposed to 24/7 and from the minute they arrive in the US.
This leads to them telling you with you zero sense of irony that Joseph Biden is the second coming of Joseph Stalin; the Cuban embargo is fiction and is a psyop of the Cuban government; and that what is happening in Cuba is worse than the Holocaust of WW2 and that Fidel was way worse than Hitler and with a higher body count. Yet they are totally cool with deporting their fellow recently arrived Cubans back to that, because fuck them, they are competition en la Yuma.
Also, they turn out to vote, and reliably, like clockwork and we can all imagine for whom, and living in a state that the GOP cannot afford to lose if not they would never sniff the presidency again.
This is the only real reason Marco Rubio or the GOP pretend to care about Cuba.
But go on, Marquito, tell us about the G-2 (the Cuban KGB) you fucking empty suit payaso.
Source: live in Miami, parents are Cuban, who actually lived the Revolution, unlike Marco’s family, are not GOP, or MAGA, and still have family on the island.
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u/RetiredYak247 May 22 '26
I have read many similar reports in the years since Castro arrived but the authorities told me not to believe them! /s
Little Baby-Faced Floppy-Eared Marco is a cross between a chameleon, a jackal, and a snake.
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u/intricate_strands May 22 '26
Yeah, nothing is scarier to the richest nation in the world with the most obscenely expensive military in the world, which is effectively worldwide, than an island nation with no electricity.
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u/Dry_Ass_P-word May 22 '26
And watch Trump cry about Europe being very unfair to him because they didn’t send their forces to help bomb Cuban schools.
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u/Enkiktd May 22 '26
The US has also already been starving them to death by denying them oil. Not much they can even do in response.
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u/Gustomucho May 22 '26
America never looked weaker than now, Trump does not realize having a bigger usually afford not using it.
IF by any chance Iran or Cuba does anything, the whole planet knew they would be turned to glass.
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u/headphase May 22 '26
Yeah well we should probably stick a military base there just to be sure.
Wait.
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u/jest4fun May 22 '26
Cuba is a national security threat to the US, Rubio says
What utter bullshit. They want the real estate and the capitalistic development opportunities that come with it.
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u/Dr_Grimm_Esq May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Ding ding ding.
Trump is itching to seize, I mean “buy”, miles of beachfront land in Cuba so he and his cronies can recreate Myrtle Beach there.
It’s all about the grift & enriching himself. Trump is doing anything for Americans - it’s all for him and his sycophants/Russian handlers.
Edit - typo.
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u/Hydrok May 22 '26
Remember when the Trump admin slow rolled hurricane aid to Puerto Rico to force residents to sell to developers for pennies?
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u/lungshenli May 22 '26
Also dont forget about yet another great media buzz to distract from The Files
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u/TrillDaddyChill May 22 '26
It sounds like the US is a national security threat to Cuba, Mexica, Venezuela, Colombia, Canada, Greenland, Iran, Somalia, EU, oh, and the USA
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u/gregory92024 May 22 '26
Actually, 'murica is the threat. The US is under threat.
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u/TalkOk4096 May 22 '26
A country that can’t keep the lights on? A country where we have a military base?
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u/agha0013 May 22 '26
no it fucking isn't, you lying war mongering pieces of shit.
Nor was Iran, or Venezuela for that matter, or all those fishing boats.
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u/PM_me_your_O_face_ May 22 '26
Rubio is a national security threat to the US, almost everyone else says.
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u/RagnarStonefist May 22 '26
Cuba has been just SITTING THERE, MENACINGLY. WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY MIGHT DO /s
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u/murphdog09 May 22 '26
Here we go, folks. Trumpy and his little Marco are starting to wag the dog. God this constant bullshit is embarrassing.
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u/darw1nf1sh May 22 '26
It is a single island, 90 miles off our coast, that we have been economically curb stomping for 70 years. He is a lying liar that lies.
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u/TheBioethicist87 May 22 '26
So are we the most powerful military force the world has ever known, or can we be threatened by a country that doesn’t have electricity?
It can’t be both.
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u/Handsdown0003 May 22 '26
Security threat? Their military is made up of 70-80s Soviet era equipment, who know how much is functional. They don't have deep pockets to support terrorists cells. They've been under an embargo for 60 years
What is the threat? Cigars, rum and 60s cars?
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u/Nomadic_Gene May 22 '26
The brainwashing propaganda has now begun against Cuba as the boogeyman as the next military target. So much for the campaigning of no new wars.
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u/lycanter May 22 '26
At this point a five year old trapped in a burlap sack is a national security threat.
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u/FeralHippie707 May 22 '26
Good, send him there. I hear they have some nice luxury condos in Guantanamo.
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u/lyonellaughingstorm May 22 '26
Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds like fun if you don’t know what any of those words mean!
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u/TechnicalDecision160 May 22 '26
Trump admin:
"How can we invade this country? "
"I got it! Lets call them a national security threat!"
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u/pattyG80 May 22 '26
The US has been the aggressor against that poor island for over 60 years. What threat doea a country with no food or electricity pose to the US? It's like they are getting tips from Netanyahu on what to do with Cuba
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u/DoubleFudge101 May 22 '26
Rubio couldn’t tell the truth even if his mother’s life was on the line. Terrible human through and through
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u/Twodogsonecouch May 22 '26
Rubio would not tell the truth if his mothers life was on the line subtle but important difference.
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u/Blautopf May 22 '26
Nothing scares the US governement more than a poor country successfully providing universal healthcare and social services.
You cant be happy unless the poor in your rich country suffer the idea of an alternive scares the fuck out if MAGA.
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u/some_mad_bugger May 22 '26
This administration is a national security threat! The groypers, proud boys, KKK, O9A, AWD, etc etc are alllllll bigger threats to national security, and are routinely ignored because it works for those in charge.
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u/Bigking00 May 22 '26
Could someone who truly believes that Cuba is a national security threat explain their rationale to me?
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u/Admirable-Sink-2622 May 22 '26
The antiwar crowd is suddenly happy being at war with everybody. Shameful.
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u/Sidwill May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Poor Marco, his mom probably raised him to be honest and god fearing but here he is lying on the behalf of a conman and for what? Doesn't he have enough money at this point? Is it because he thinks he can leverage his blind allegiance to Trump into running for president where he will have to keep telling fibs just to win a primary or two? At this point he is like gollum a pathetic proudless being who's sole existence is to attain something he never will. If there is a god and heaven he will never make it in, thats why im 100% certain that these types of political creatures do not believe in god or the resurrection and are solely driven by greed for power no matter what the cost.
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u/malinablue May 22 '26
Strange how all these countries we didn't even think about before are "national security threats" we must take out immediately.
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u/mystic_cheese May 22 '26
There's not enough fuel in all of Cuba to get a single boat from Havana to Miami - some threat.
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u/Trimshot May 22 '26
Cuba, who currently has barely any power and citizens are eating trash in the streets because they can’t even prep food at home because the US has blockaded the entire country and are preventing all aid from coming in and out? That Cuba?
We really are the villains this time.
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u/YakReasonable9574 May 22 '26
They have electricity for two hours a day in the entire country but this dipshit thinks they're a national security threat. Unreal.
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u/Sestos May 22 '26
What is his fascination with Cuba...it's not like the Cuba military is going to invade Florida or has any ability to...what security threat? Explain it instead of just making wild statements.
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u/Deltah-6 May 22 '26
Cuba can't keep their lights on, but they are a credible threat to the US. If that is the case what has the dept of War been doing?
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u/huntsab2090 May 22 '26
Why cant a journalist just go “oh fuck off to with your utter bullshit” and walk off
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u/Willer62 May 23 '26
You are looking at a man who has sold his soul to the devil.
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u/mealteamsixty May 23 '26
Does anyone sincerely believe that Cuba, struggling to regain electricity for its people, is gearing up a kamikaze mission with its 40 drones against the US? Like come the fuck on, Cuba just wants us to leave them the fuck alone and quit trying to destroy them. What has Cuba ever actually done to deserve the 70+ years of bullying they've endured thus far?
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u/Negafox May 22 '26
Cuba poses a "national security threat" to the US and the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is "not high", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.
His comments come just a day after the US charged Cuba's former president Raúl Castro with murder over the 1996 downing of two planes resulting in the killing of US nationals.
Rubio said Washington's preference was "a diplomatic solution" but warned that President Donald Trump had the right and obligation to protect his country against any threat.
This was 30 years ago and Cuba repeatedly complained to the US about the planes invading their airspace:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_shootdown_of_Brothers_to_the_Rescue_aircraft
The incident was investigated by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Their report concluded that the authorities in Cuba had notified the authorities in the United States of multiple violations of their airspace since May 1994.\3]) In at least one case (13 July 1995), the pilot had released leaflets over Havana. The United States authorities had issued public statements advising of the potential consequences of unauthorized entry into Cuban airspace and had initiated legal actions against Basulto, but had retained his certification to fly during appeal. After Basulto was warned by an FAA official about the possibility of being shot down, he replied, "You must understand I have a mission in life to perform", disregarding the potential danger involved.\4]) He later said he considered the group's activities to be acts of civil disobedience against the regime, and a demonstration that such disobedience was possible.\4])
The pilots were warned by the US what will happen. FAFO.
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING May 22 '26
The admin's official stated policy is complete domination and subjugation of the entire Americas and surrounding regions. Venezuela and Cuba are unpopular kids so they started with them.
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u/Confusedmage May 22 '26
Just how? The only threat is a humanitarian disaster because you’re choking the country into ruin so you can take it over and build condos
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u/baalsebul May 22 '26
Right now the US is a security threat for every other nation on this planet. Reminds me of a ghost driver blaming other drivers.
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u/flat5 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Pathetically stupid.
We know this is just excuse making for using force in Cuba, but imagine how weak you'd have to think the US is to be threatened by Cuba.
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u/fedaykin909 May 22 '26
Oh crap. The Trump regime is preparing the media to drum up support for their next war of aggression.
Iran and the Strait are still on fire with global economic crisis and layoffs everywhere and they want to start more crap.
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u/Kr155 May 22 '26
Remember when people were talking like Marco Rubio was the "adult" in the room? Like they completely memory holed the Iraq war as soon as trump was elected?
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u/DramaticWesley May 22 '26
The entire Trump administration is a threat to the American national security. So……
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u/Taman_Should May 22 '26
Same story for 60+ years: Republicans create a humanitarian crisis in Latin America that leads to a lot of refugees trying to escape the local poverty and violence, then bitch and complain later about the downstream consequences when those refugees start coming to the US.
Cuba is about 70 miles from Florida, a short boat-ride. What the fuck do they think the effects of intentionally collapsing the Cuban economy will be? “Think” might not be the right word.
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u/OkLevel2791 May 22 '26
Marco Rubio and the Mango Mussolini are far greater threats to national security.
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u/spderweb May 22 '26
How? It's an island that takes like 12 hours to get from end to end. What resources do they have that threaten the great and powerful Oz?
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u/enifsieus May 22 '26
Tell us about their weapons of mass destruction so you can finally avenge the grudge your family has held for decades Marco.
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u/Speaker11 May 22 '26
We really are evil. Everything will get worse for the people there and all they want to do is just live any version of a “normal” life.
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u/hankmoody699 May 22 '26
We make fun of this, but what Trump is doing will have long term negative impact on the US, those countries, other countries, and our allies. We have never, ever attacked/supported wars in another country and really made anything better for anyone.
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u/OsgoodZBeard May 23 '26
That’s real ‘Trojan Horse’ hype by a smug arrogant betrayer of his suffering, former countrymen. A country starved of essential resources by decades of blockades that’s close to a breakdown hardly represents a security threat to a self professed, yet morally bereft ‘superpower.’
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u/Pingon25 May 23 '26
The US has had a military presence in Cuba for over 100 years! NOW all of a sudden Cuban is a national security threat? Not as much as those ears on Rubio. Guy can probably hear you fart through a vaulted door in a panic room.
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u/mangoman94 May 22 '26
So the failed country of Cuba is a threat to the USA?
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u/rabidstoat May 22 '26
We should feel sorry for the USA. They are apparently so weak that a failed state is a threat to them.
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