China could do the funniest thing and arm the fuck out of Cuba secretly.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2026
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Define "get Cuba done"
Remember when the Obama administration tried to ease off this silly non-sense with Cuba. That's how you know this issue is living inside of Trump's head.
He has Obama derangement syndrome
That's what showed us how powerful the Cuban-American caucus has become
Obama tried to normalize relations, Florida has been red ever since
Cuban-Americans want Cuba to collapse. It's pretty evil
So we should kill just under 4 million civilians then leave the country to warlords like we did in Iraq? Cuba is far from perfect but it doesn't go around starting wars and is a tiny country. What's with the obsession with it?
Yep. We voted for Obama twice and then went bugfuck afterwards.
I was in Cuba again this year. People there are really hurting. The streets of Havana are the emptiest of tourists I’ve ever seen them, yet the Paseo del Prado is alive with socialising Cubans every single night, persevering in the face of the soulless, shameless, compassionless behemoth next door.
May the Cuban people prevail regardless of the governments who use them as pawns.
No new wars, eh?
They're operations, not wars, stupid lib! /s
Special military operations?
No, epic fury operations!!
With Trump's military, I would be hesitant to invade a deserted island at this point. We might lose.
A deserted island WITH an established military base, no less
The peace president everyone. A real stable genius
He won a FIFA peace prize! I had to buy more than 20 gallons of gas to get mine.
how the fuck did you afford that? did you short nvidia or sumthin?
He prolly lives in the US were gas ist still cheap af lol
ELI5 why this blockade exists please.
The conquest of Cuba has been a goal of American nationalists for over a hundred years. The political excuses concocted during the cold war directly stemmed from Cubas economic domination by the American mainland and the resulting popular revolution in response to the looting of the country. Since Cuba left the American sphere of influence, conservatives have turned hatred of Cuba into an identity issue and base a lot of their propaganda on half truths about Cuba and Venezuela. Domination over the Americas is considered critical by American nationalists who view their neighbors as objects to be controlled and looted.
You also immediately lose the Cuban-American vote if you go soft on Cuba. Which means you lose Florida.
Because a few big landowners and the mafia got kicked out of Cuba in 1959 and they've paying off politicians to steal it back ever since.
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Marco rubio is secretary of state and he represents a large well funded community of cuban, and Venezuelan, expats who want to see the governments of their homeland toppled. They "succeeded" in Venezuela, now they're moving on to cuba
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Trump wants his name in the history books for doing what no other president "had the balls to do" and conquering cuba.
I guess the new Congress is just going to need to defund the executive branch.
11 Democrats will vote against it every single time
That's such a weirdly specific number to guess. Why 11? Do you think that about the house or senate?
Like the other person said, it's a reference to a recent event. However, while the actual number may change the truth is that a cohort of the Democratic party is compromised to prevent anything with teeth from actually passing.
They're talking about the 11 Democrats who failed to show up and vote on the issue of advancing Hegseth's impeachment.
The Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., estimated on Thursday that the cost of the U.S. blockade to Cuba between March 2025 and February 2026 amounted to $8 billion.
Earlier this month, the Treasury Department imposed further sanctions on Cuban oil tankers and shipping companies and threatened to target any international entity or person doing business within its marine or maritime industries as part of a push "to end the Cuban regime's malign activities, both in Cuba and across our hemisphere."
Cuba's Embassy in Washington, D.C., said these steps "deepen an energy siege that already leaves hospitals without reliable power and families facing blackouts. The blockade is not targeted at a government. It is collective punishment that hits ordinary people every day."