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- world@lemmy.world
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
It’s a politico article. The same company that ownes the German Axel Springer and Welt, and some other European right-wing media outlets. They have an agenda of polarizing people, directly contributing to the rise of new alt-right/nazi parties like the AfD in Germany. AfD is now leading in all polls, and I’d say thats partly the fault of media outlets like politico. Keep that in mind. Dont click, dont share. Always fact-check.
I doubt the Iran war will be over anytime soon. The cost of war for Iran to block the strait is ridiculously low. The cost for the invading US was, is, and will stay very high. I am convinced that the strait wont open ever again without Iran installing some kind of profit-maschine there. So the US either accepts strategic defeat and shows the world, that their military power is only a husk of what it once was, or it will continue depleting it’s stockpiles. Either way, I don’t see an invasion of Cuba coming. However, the blockade itself is an act of aggression and needs to end asap.