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US blockade of Cuba

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@StateDept
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We have a lot of people in Cuba. We have the CIA there. @SecRubio is from there, so we have a lot of expertise.

We’re going to help the Cuban people out. We’re freeing up Cuba
 
China has called on the US to stop using "coercion" and "threats" against its ally Cuba, after Washington indicted former leader Raúl Castro on murder charges.

On Thursday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said the US should "stop threatening force at every turn", and that Beijing "firmly supports Cuba".

The foreign minister of China, a long-standing supporter of Cuba, said Beijing opposed "any attempt by external forces to exert pressure on Cuba under any pretext".

Guo continued: "The United States should cease using sanctions and judicial apparatus as tools of coercion against Cuba and refrain from making threats of force at every turn.

"China resolutely supports Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and dignity and opposes external interference."

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China says US should stop 'threats' against Cuba after ex-leader charged

It comes after the US charged Cuba's ex-leader with murder, the latest move putting pressure on the regime.
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Rubio: "Cuba is not going to be able to wait us out or buy time. As I said in the context of Iran, the president's preference is always a negotiated agreement that's peaceful. With Cuba, the likelihood of that happening is not high."

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Marco Rubio on striking Cuba: "The president always has the option to do whatever it takes to support and protect the national security of the United States"

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Marco Rubio: "Cuba not only has weapons they've acquired from Russia and China, but they also host Russian and Chinese intelligence presence in their country. So Cuba has always posed a national security threat to the US. They're a leading state sponsor of terror."

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Trump on Cuba: "Other presidents have looked at doing something for 50, 60 years, and it looks like I'll be the one that does it"

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Andy_Ross said:
Cuba is a security threat to the USA

Miller: Many Americans may not realize but need to know, Cuba, positioned just a 45 minute flight from American shores,
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I’m sure this 45 minute claim from US intelligence has been made, falsely, before a previous illegal invasion.
Pretty sure I’m not suffering from Mandela effect here… it certainly seems familiar.
 
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Jack by the hedge said:
"A leading state sponsor of terrorism" is such an utterly empty accusation. Anyone they don't like is automatically a leading state sponsor of terrorism. It's the new "She's a witch".

Cuba turned Stephen Miller into a newt.

He got worse.
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A long and proud tradition. They called everyone they didn't like communists back in the day.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Department of State
@StateDept
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We have a lot of people in Cuba. We have the CIA there. @SecRubio is from there, so we have a lot of expertise.
We’re going to help the Cuban people out. We’re freeing up Cuba
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Andy_Ross said:
Marco Rubio: "Cuba not only has weapons they've acquired from Russia and China, but they also host Russian and Chinese intelligence presence in their country. So Cuba has always posed a national security threat to the US. They're a leading state sponsor of terror."
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Don't tell anybody, but I have heard that the USA also "host Russian and Chinese intelligence presence in their country."* In fact, intelligence and national security officials have allegedly been attacked by those Russian and/or Chinese and/or Cuban and/or Iranian and/or ... agents on the White House grounds!!!
Olivia Troye tells 60 Minutes about “Havana Syndrome”-like experience (CBS 60 Minutes on YouTube, June 27, 2026 – 3:16 min.)
Olivia Troye, homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, speaks with 60 Minutes about the summer of 2019, when she says a “piercing feeling on the side of [her] head” developed while leaving White House grounds.
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0:37--> Scott Pelley: In the summer of 2019, she was descending these stairs toward the white house when she felt she had been physically struck.
Olivia Troye: But it was, like, this piercing feeling on the side of my head. It was like, I remember, it was on the right side of my head ,and i I got, like, vertigo. I was unsteady. I was, i felt nauseous. I was somewhat disoriented, and I was just, I remember thinking, like, 'Okay, you gotta, if you don't fall down the stairs, like, you've gotta find your ground again and steady yourself,
Scott Pelley: She steadied herself on a railing but the piercing feeling continued as she passed by this entrance to the West Wing.
Olivia Troye: It was almost, like, I couldn't really process. It was like a paralyzing panic attack.** I've never had that. I've never felt anything like that. And so I, you know, I thought to myself, I mean, 'Do I have a brain tumor out of the blue? Is this what happened? Am I having a stroke?
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As for the weapons Cuba has "acquired from Russia and China," where else would they acquire them? There's a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ blockade against Cuba! It's not as if Cuba could buy F-16s, even if they had to money to pay for them.

* And it's not as if Russia and China don't also 'host' CIA and U.S. State Department agents in their countries – much the same way Cuba 'hosts' them, as Trump points out in the quotation above!
** It was "like" a panic attack because it was a panic attack, you silly cow! For some reason, Troye's Wikipedia page doesn't mention her bout of 'Havana syndrome' at all.


ETA: In all the talk about alleged Cuban WMDs, it's astonishing that the alleged DEWs boiling the brains of U.S. diplomats and intelligence haven't been mentioned at all in this context!
 
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dann said:
Consider what $100 million means – divided by 10-11 million inhabitants

What the USA is currently doing to Cuba is not just atrocious, but the Trump administration is also incredibly stingy.
What is $100 million in comparison to what Trump and his cronies are raking in for themelves on a daily basis through corruption?
The Trump administration also considered offering Greenlanders money to become an American colony:
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US (Reuters, Jan 9, 2026)
While the exact dollar figure and logistics of any payment are unclear, U.S. officials, including White House aides, have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, said two of the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
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Compare this to:
A guide to understanding Greenland’s nascent economy (ArcticToday, April 2, 2026)
public finances rely heavily on an annual block grant from Denmark of about DKK $605 million, roughly $10,000 per person each year.
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Again: atrocious but also stingy! It's like former colonialists offering glass beads to the primitive natives. Or maybe it's because people with the arithmetic skills of Trump and RFK Jr. can't fathom that most Cubans and Greenlanders are better at doing calculations than they are!
RFK Jr claims basic math rules don’t apply to White House (The Independent on YouTube, April 24, 2026)
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At least in Greenland, the MAGA ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ have now upped the ante, but to no avail, apparently. The Greenlanders have now been promised much, much more than the $10 worth of medicine that Rubio has offered Cubans to extradite Raúl Castro:
Orla Joelsen on X, May 20, 2026
American Clifford Stanley continues his private signature campaign in Nuuk, Greenland
Clifford Stanley, who has been in Nuuk since May 6, has extended his stay in the city. He hopes to collect many signatures.
According to Sermitsiaq, the American says he has extended his stay by 10 days and will not leave Nuuk until the end of May.
“If Greenland is to succeed in the future, Greenland must be competitive. The people must know their worth. And 200,000 dollars is the best offer they can get for now,” Clifford Stanley tells Sermitsiaq.
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Clifford Stanley also tells Sermitsiaq that he is most often met with resistance and anger when presenting his purpose to citizens, and that he has only received two signatures recently.
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So there's at least one more Greenlander has signed up in addition to MAGA-paid dissident Jørgen Boassen! :ROFLMAO:
It's quite an offer, $200,000 – and that is on top of the chocolate-chip cookies Jeff Landry promised their kids!
 
The Art of the Deal
Jack by the hedge said:
All those previous presidents have considered the options and decided not to go at it like a bull at a gate. The era of thinking about things is over.
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An important part of "the options" was that the USA actually made a deal with Russia, i.e. the Soviet Union, 65 years ago!
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Near-Nuclear Showdown (Political Science Institute, Oct 21, 2025)
The public agreement: The Soviet Union would dismantle and removed its missiles from Cuba, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for an American public pledge not to invade Cuba.
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John F. Kennedy, “Letter to Nikita Khrushchev,” October 27, 1962 ​

The text of the letter from Kennedy to Khrushchev offering to end the naval quarantine and pledge not to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union withdrew its missiles from Cuba.
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