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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47584370
The shift comes as administration officials struggle to convince the Cuban regime to make major economic and political changes. 05/18/2026
[horrible, but informative article]
The Trump administration has been dancing around the question of whether it will carry out military strikes against Cuba. I am told it is increasingly willing to take such a step.
That’s a significant escalation from a few months ago, when officials were primarily focused on using economic and diplomatic pressure to squeeze the communist regime in Havana.
A U.S. official and a person familiar with the administration’s discussions on Cuba told me that President Donald Trump and his aides have grown frustrated that the U.S. pressure campaign, which includes starving the island of fuel, has not led Cuba’s leaders to agree to significant economic and political reforms. So they’re taking the military option more seriously than previously.
“The mood has definitely changed,” said the person familiar with discussions
The history of Cuba is another example of why America is such a piece of shit country.
Honestly, it must be fucking wildly embarassing that a tiny island, that America has used it’s full economic power to try and impoverish and starve to death for decades, has a comparable average lifespan and cancer survival rate, far better infant mortality rate, almost double the number of hospital beds per person, and an over 10% higher literacy rate.
Yes the Cuban government has corruption issues that cause the powerful to live rich unattainable lifestyles compared to the average worker, and issues with jailing people who don’t deserve it… Can anyone argue that America is any better in either of those regards though?
However I have heard of people trying to escape Cuba. Last Cuban I spoke with was saying he had left because of poverty, he said people are not starving; but you have to choose whether to buy food or a toy for your kid.
I haven’t heard about rich living unattainable lifestyles or jailing those that don’t deserve it in Cuba.
Honestly, not at the scale of the US, but Cuba has cracked down on political prisoners and the corruption is sometimes extremely visible in Havana when you see the properties of the elite and government compared to those of everyone else.
So basically the USA but with, ironically, more equality cuz it happens to everyone not just brown people
Got any reliable source on these claims?
I was being facetious. But I doubt you’d have to ask more than 3 MAGAts before one of them denies the “rich living unattainable lifestyles or jailing those that don’t deserve it” happens in the USA.
But for real… I was just trying to make a dark joke.