Trump speed running repeat of 200 years of American imperial history in 8 weeks.
Banana wars, tick
Silver shirts, tick
Regime change, tick
Middle east shit, tick
Bay of pigs, tick
Stupid fucking war no one wanted, Monday or Tuesday maybe
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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The crew consisted of Cuban nationals residing in the U.S., Cuban authorities said in a late update Wednesday evening. The crew was armed with assault rifles, handguns and Molotov cocktails, Cuba said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. government personnel were not involved and called for an investigation into the incident.
What makes you think the US government is responsible for this?
I don't think it needed the active support of the government to motivate a bunch of exile Cubans, but Trumps new aggression against Cuba certainly helped. It hardly is just coincidence that it happemed right now.
Motivated to do what? What exactly do you think a single boat was planning on doing?
why do you think they were armed? and opened fired on Cuban ships
No, you go first. By all means, tell us what this one boat was planning on doing.
Firing on Cuban ships, did you not read what happened?
To what end?
You lot seem to think this was some type of coup attempt, rather than some smugglers that got busted and tried to run.
Which I find very entertaining.
Because they're fucking stupid and insane? Stop looking for reason.
Smugglers that were headed to Cuba, armed, and instigated hostilities with Cuban ships by firing upon them? That makes zero sense.
You seem to be having fun making up whatever fantasy scenarios that you like, so keep at it
Smugglers have reasons to be armed and sometimes are. In this case they got approached for a control, you can imagine that if they were carrying weapons they probably had some other illegal thing. At that point they could surrender to the authorities, but that would likely get them to jail. They were armed and thus shot on the ship in order to escape. Doesn't seem too far fetched.
On the other hand: one boat with a few men and guns was directed to Cuba to make a coup. They got stopped by authorities, fired at them and escaped. This doesn't make sense. How are you making a coup if you're not able to pass the first control ship that approaches you?
It's either a smuggling attempt, or the most hilariously bad attempt at guerrilla warfare I've ever heard of.
They injured one person.
In addition to weapons, crewmembers had bulletproof vests, rifle scopes and camouflage fatigues
They clearly weren't smart but it's obvious they had lethal intentions. If anything was trying to be smuggled it would have been confiscated, yet nothing of the sort was found. plus there are far easier ways to smuggle through legal channels than on an armed unauthorized speedboat. Nothing about the smuggling angle holds up
I'm not able to copy from the Facebook page, but apparently it was the same people on the boat saying they had the intention to infiltrate with terrorist intentions. That's indeed a strange affirmation and was likely modified by the interior minister, but probably not too far from what they stated.
I was indeed mistaken.
Once the wounded are treated we may have more info on what exactly they were planning, and if any government backing was involved. But I think them being vigilantes makes more sense currently
I'm gonna go idle my car for an hour just to help Miami sink a little faster
I'd say it's most likely some form of smuggling that got caught up in the increased tension.
Definitely a more plausible explanation than an attempted regime change by half a dozen people in a speedboat, which some people here seem to think is the case. 😂
But they were from Florida...
That does change things a bit.
TBH I wouldn't put it past a bunch of right-wingers from Florida to think storming Cuba with half a dozen people in a speedboat is a good idea.