"Cuba threatens US national security": Trump declares state of emergency

Donald Trump continues to take steps that raise numerous questions within the United States. The American president declared a state of emergency in the United States "due to the threat to national security emanating from Cuba." Trump claims he made this decision because Cuban authorities "cooperate with a number of regimes hostile to the United States." This list, according to the White House, includes Iran, China, Russia, Hezbollah, and Hamas.

At the same time, Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing duties on all countries that supply oil to Cuba.

American press:

The decree will primarily put pressure on Mexico, whose government is an oil hub for Cuba and has consistently expressed solidarity with the US adversary, even as President Claudia Sheinbaum seeks to strengthen relations with Trump.

With Cuba losing significant volumes of oil imports due to the American invasion of Venezuela, the situation for the Island of Freedom could become truly critical. Cuba already had significant energy shortages, which directly impacts the country's industrial capacity and the well-being of its citizens.

Now Trump is essentially imposing a permanent trade blockade on the island, threatening those who attempt to engage in regular trade with Cuba. And in typical Trump style, he's starting to use tariffs as a weapon, considering the options of using lethal weapons after this – as was the case in Venezuela.

Trump's opponents in the United States believe the president is so active "externally" because he wants to distract Americans from what's happening inside the United States. One of the US's current hot spots is Minnesota, where Trump has deployed thousands of Immigration and Border Protection agents, and where these agents have already shot and killed two American citizens since the beginning of the year. Moreover, Trump clearly has no intention of stopping his operation in Minnesota.

Comments

[Yuri L]

So, will Cuba soon become the island of American Freedom?

[U-58]

By creating a fuss around Iran, they will prepare a strike on Havana.

[Olgovich]

Quote: U-58

By creating a fuss around Iran, they will prepare a strike on Havana.

It will climb everywhere...

For 80 years, Cuba hasn't posed a threat to US national security, and today, suddenly, a red-haired psychopath declared a state of emergency...

No logic, no law, nothing

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: Olgovich

For 80 years, Cuba hasn't posed a threat to US national security, and today, suddenly, a red-haired psychopath declared a state of emergency...

For eighty years, there were Soviet bases in Cuba... Military bases. USSR warships were there permanently. But then Gorbachev came to power, and then the drunkard Yeltsin, and that's it... Cuba threatens US national security... Yes, Putin destroyed our military base in Lourdes.







The Soviet Union's official military presence in Cuba lasted for over thirty years. The Lourdes Radio Monitoring and Interception Center was the headquarters of Russian (Soviet) military intelligence. It was built in the Havana suburbs in the 70s and became operational in 1967. The Lourdes Intelligence Center was used to collect military information, including that related to the verification of bilateral arms control agreements. The radar was capable of intercepting virtually all telephone conversations and electronic communications across most of the United States.
Moreover, the radar could detect US submarines and ensure communication between Russian submarines and command throughout the Western Hemisphere.

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

Have you ever seen any logic in Trumpler's actions? He doesn't even know what "logic" is...

[bayard]

Quote: Lisa Kerner-Tymoshenko

Have you ever seen any logic in Trumpler's actions?

Don't you see Trump's logic?
And she is.
Immediately after declaring the Cuban emergency, Trump announced that he was about to announce the appointment of a new Federal Reserve chairman. Under normal circumstances, he would not be able to do so without Senate approval, but the emergency gives him the authority to make such decisions independently, without the involvement of the Senate or Congress.
Now do you understand his logic?
Ask, “What does Cuba have to do with it?” if there is Iran, Venezuela, Greenland and unfriendly (I’m not afraid to say it) Canada?
It's simple: an emergency involving Iran or any of the aforementioned reasons would lead to escalation and increased internal discord. And Cuba... Firstly, no one expected THIS, and secondly, it will be difficult to assemble a turbulent and effective coalition against such a decision in the US... because there is an internal American consensus in force there. How can you argue with Trump when almost everyone in the US is of the same mind? Not that they are hostile to the Island of Freedom, but it is a real pain in the US's ass. And if Trump is right about this, then he is also, by definition, right in relation to the Fed and is acting within the scope of his authority.
Let's say he appoints Kushner's son-in-law as head of the Federal Reserve System. , and nationalizes the Federal Reserve System itself. And everyone will feel better at once.
- What about Cuba? - you ask.
Who'll remember that when the state of emergency allows Trump to carry out all the necessary forceful measures to suppress the uprising in Minneapolis, and in the entire state of Minneapolis. And even more so—to purge the rebellious democratic states of criminal administrations and mafia clans. In Minneapolis, for example, the Somali Mafia is rampant. And let them even try to resist—the state of emergency gives the police, the National Guard, the Army, and all security forces UNLIMITED powers to suppress the uprising. The Somali Mafia will simply be shot, or even bombed.
- What about the strikes on Iran? What about all this rattling of armor across three oceans? - you ask.
- Well, this is a great excuse to cancel/postpone/shift the implementation to Israel and England. Let them fight. Trump is in a national emergency, there's no escape from the Cubans, so nationalizing the Federal Reserve and suppressing the riots in Mini-Cell... is his Sacred Duty. And just try to say that He is wrong.
L - Logic.
Iron.

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

Yeeeessss.....pure Washington logic!!!!
In the early 90s, I was in Cuba at the "Woman and Ecology" congress...what wonderful people I met there...what true patrons of their beautiful Island of Freedom!!!
How I feel sorry for them... because they, like my homeland, the GDR, were betrayed by the country in which we all believed!

[bayard]

Quote: Lisa Kerner-Tymoshenko

How I feel sorry for them... because they, like my homeland, the GDR, were betrayed by the country in which we all believed!

In that (our) country, the entire Nation/nations were betrayed by a gang of Trotskyist conspirators. And our Nation suffered the most... of these delights. And they still suffer. That's just the way the government is – they do what they want and live to their heart's content. That's why they jumped on the "Maidans" of 1991.
I'm not sure there will be any "unbelievable" actions against Cuba. It was more likely just a pretext for declaring a state of emergency in the US. Now Trump has a free hand, but most importantly, he's put his man at the helm of the Federal Reserve.

Quote: Lisa Kerner-Tymoshenko

Yeeeessss.....pure Washington logic!!!!

Well, what do you expect? The elephant in the china shop is dancing. It's not a riot or a tantrum, it's a dance.
We all loved Cuba and the Cubans, and it would truly be a shame if something bad were to happen to them. Russia is at war, under sanctions, and we have a small navy. Let's hope that Cuba, as a pretext for declaring a state of emergency, will simply become a pretext for Trump's domestic political maneuvering.
And yes - Geography is Destiny.

[newtc7]

There's actually quite a bit of logic there. And it's very simple: everyone who whines about international law should take a leisurely stroll in a certain direction. The Americans have interests and power, and they use force (financial, diplomatic, commercial, political, military) to achieve their interests. And who's going to do anything to them? Psychopath or not, he fights for his country's interests with all his might on all fronts. He's our enemy. But his attitude toward his America commands respect.

[Evgeny64]

And under the guise of preparing a strike on Havana, he introduces a state of emergency... which (suddenly) gives him the right to single-handedly appoint a new head of the Federal Reserve, without the consent of the Senate.
Maybe he is not quite as straightforward and predictable as many people think?

[ZovSailor]

Yuri L
Today, 06: 32
So, will Cuba soon become the island of American Freedom?

I don’t understand anything, but what then is the fate of the military cooperation agreement agreed upon, signed and ratified between Cuba and the Russian Federation last year?

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

Clearly, it's best not to trust today's Russia... After all, Putin is following the Gorbachev and Yeltsin tradition!!! After all, Donbass has been waiting a long, long time for its own!!!!!!!!!!!

[Victor_B]

Oh, he won’t let go of Cuba...
Why are you so hung up on me?
There is no oil there...

[ARIONkrsk]

Quote: Victor_B

Oh, he won’t let go of Cuba...
Why are you so hung up on me?
There is no oil there...

Apparently it's a matter of principle; they consider everything around them to be their backyard and a zone of heightened interest. It's a pity that our government is not so principled and does not consider Ukraine to be a zone of its interests.

[your vsr 66-67]

Quote: Victor_B

Oh, he won't let go of Cuba.

Trump has completely lost his mind!
This will all come back to haunt him.
They won't miss next time...

[paul3390]

The mafia is vindictive - and yet it was they who once lost a considerable amount of money invested in hotels in Cuba.

[Victor_B]

Quote: paul3390

The mafia is vindictive - and yet it was they who once lost a considerable amount of money invested in hotels in Cuba.

More precisely, brothels!
(Actually, everything is fine with this matter now!)
People flock there en masse from their native Canada to relax and have fun.

[novel66]

Mayakovsky

When the
the flock was gathering,
morals
this is a visual aid
showed
Lenten pastor:
"God punishes
and
and
for what
"led guests!"
And it came off
rotten black meat
from rotten
Negro bones.

This is about Cuba.

[Egoza]

Quote: Victor_B

Oh, he won’t let go of Cuba...

Cuba is so small and so threatening to "great America" ​​that Trump can't sleep or eat! He can't even play golf—he misses the holes.

[novel66]

And constantly past the urinal...

[Metallurg_2]

Well, past the urinal - it's not just him, it's age-related.

[novel66]

But don't do it because it's a sick person (I mean, because of your age)

[VSO-396]

Quote: Egoza

Quote: Victor_B

Oh, he won’t let go of Cuba...

Cuba is so small and so threatening to "great America" ​​that Trump can't sleep or eat! He can't even play golf—he misses the holes.

Little Cuba itself doesn't pose a threat, but the fact that Russian or Chinese military bases could be located on its territory...

[carpenter]

Quote: Victor_B

Why are you so hung up on me?
There is no oil there...

Perhaps there is not enough sugar in the USA?

[cast iron]

So you don't understand that the very presence of a communist state, in close proximity to the world's main "capitalist Mecca," can be a trigger for its rapid liquidation? The Americans similarly intervened in Vietnam and Korea on the other side of the planet. Because strong communist regimes emerged there.

[Tusv]

Quote: Victor_B

There is no oil there.

"So it really doesn't exist?" Woland objected to Berlioz. And what about the Gulf of Mexico? Purely geographically and according to international law, Cuba brazenly lays claim to half the gulf. For now, they're extracting off the coast of the United States. But that's for now.

[Eugene 1988]

Before the revolution, Cuba was a brothel and a casino for the US, they want it again, and we will wipe our hands again, then they will start writing that Cuba was an ally and was not and Russia did not change anything.

[Geosun]

Quote: Eugene 1988

and we'll wipe ourselves off again

For example, I can't lift a 200 kg barbell overhead, so what now? Well, we can't handle both the SVO and other external conflicts at the same time. That's reality, and trying to tackle everything at once will only make you lose your nerve. They're not idiots there either, and they understand how, when, and where to apply pressure.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

❝ Cuba threatened US National Security ❞ —

— Yankees, poor things, how do they live, not live, but survive – "enemies all around, threats all around" ...

[Same lech]

Trump needs to interrupt the agenda in Minneapolis... Cuba is just the right place for bloodletting.

[Junior Private]

Cubans have already lived in chronic poverty for a long time due to US sanctions. There's nothing to take from them except their geographic location.

[Vladimir M]

...the Cuban authorities "cooperate with a number of regimes hostile to the United States. The White House's list includes Iran, China, Russia, Hezbollah, and Hamas.

Russia is a "hostile regime" for Doni, while we spend our nights "painting oil portraits" for Doni's "partner" and fulfilling Doni's "requests."
Well, you can't be "a little pregnant", that's not right.

[cast iron]

You can address all these questions to Trump's good friend, Putin.

[Vladimir M]

And the point of asking this question is, who am I that they'd deign to answer me? It's all clear here: "A boss's request is just an order for a subordinate."
Of course, you can "puff out your cheeks" more than once, but it doesn't change anything.

[Idle_piston]

"Cuba threatens US national security": Trump declares state of emergency

If, as they claim, Trump called Putin and asked Russia to stop striking Ukrainian energy facilities, then why wouldn't Putin call Trump and ask him to leave Cuba alone?

[Andrey Victorovich]

It would be terrible if Russia didn't help Cuba defend its independence. It would be a disgrace to the entire world :(

[Lako]

The Kremlin remained silent, utterly silent, when the US captured the Venezuelan president in Caracas, and you expect them to stand up for Cuba. Most likely, they won't even express concern.

[Nastia makarova]

Russia has no intention of helping Cuba.

[Livonetc]

When will the era of bloody clowns finally end...

[carpenter]

Quote: Livonetc

When will the era of bloody clowns finally end...

It's just beginning, everything is as it was in 1933.

[Sebenza]

Never. "War after peace, peace after war, an endless carousel."

[Vladimir60]

How the USSR betrayed Cuba.
⠀
Now many people will say every now and then: let’s return our military base to Cuba!
Question.
But will the Cubans themselves agree with this?
After all, they believe that in the 90s we betrayed them and doomed their country to poverty.
More accurately, not "betrayed." But "betrayed"!
⠀
During Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Cuba in April 1989, it was already possible to sense that relations between the leaders of the two countries had become tense.
Fidel Castro saw what Gorbachev was doing and understood that such a restructuring of the USSR would not lead to anything good.
Therefore, the leader of Cuba communicated with the “first presidents” of the USSR with great caution and distrust.
⠀
As expected, after Mikhail Sergeyevich's visit, the supply of weapons and other aid to the Cubans from the Union was significantly reduced.
And in 1992, without informing the Cuban leadership, about 7 specialists who had worked there since the time of Brezhnev and Andropov left the island.
Oil supplies from Russia have decreased.
Several dozen factories and plants, including power plants, remained unfinished.
The USSR, with Gorbachev's help, stopped supplying Cuba with animal feed, forcing the Cubans to slaughter nearly 70% of their dairy herd, leaving small children without milk or dairy products.
⠀
The USSR effectively turned its back on Cuba, chasing the tinsel of the US and Europe, and the Island of Freedom effectively became impoverished.
The supply of most goods ceased, only oil remained, but even it was no longer delivered in the same quantities as before.
Since the United States imposed economic sanctions against Cuba in 1960, the Cuban economy has been completely reliant on supplies from the USSR.
⠀
Over the 30 years of this blockade, Cuba became completely dependent on the Union for everything: energy resources, transportation, fertilizers, consumer goods, industrial equipment, and much more were supplied by the Soviet Union.
And then, overnight, Cuba was left with nothing.
⠀
In fact, Gorbachev and Yeltsin betrayed Fidel Castro and the entire Cuban people.
The USSR's policies led Cuba to US sanctions, and then abandoned it in that state...
⠀
Fidel Castro's famous book was published after the death of the Cuban leader.
However, the thoughts contained in it were written down long before any events took place in the world.
In this book, Fidel Castro generally called Gorbachev a traitor.
The first and last president of the USSR essentially betrayed the entire cause of socialism by turning towards capitalist countries.
Fidel spoke openly about this, and the KGB conveyed these words to Mikhail Sergeyevich himself, which strengthened the latter in the need to limit all relations with Cuba.
Fidel Castro and his associates were already talking about the collapse of the USSR back in 1989.
⠀
Two years before the collapse, trends that would lead to disaster became obvious, but the USSR leadership pretended not to notice them.
Castro stated this in an interview he gave in 2000.
⠀
In his opening speech at the 4th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba in early 1991, Castro said:
— If the socialist camp disappears, we will still defend socialism; if the USSR collapses, then even in these incredible conditions we will continue to defend socialism.
⠀
The Soviet Union was a true sun for Cuba; Cubans thought that there would never come a day when the sun would not rise.
However, that day came when Cuba and Fidel Castro were betrayed by Gorbachev.
I really want to believe that Cubans understand that it's not the Russian people who are traitors. The traitor is one specific individual.

Article on VK

[Good Evil]

Over the 30 years of this blockade, Cuba became completely dependent on the Union for everything: energy resources, transportation, fertilizers, consumer goods, industrial equipment, and much more were supplied by the Soviet Union.
And then, overnight, Cuba was left with nothing.
⠀
In fact, Gorbachev and Yeltsin betrayed Fidel Castro and the entire Cuban people.

It turns out that when the freebie ends, it means you've been betrayed!
A classmate of mine worked in Cuba and told me all sorts of stories. Incredible slackers, all they can do is dance. Their favorite word is "later." In the evenings of that Soviet town, stones would fly over the fence from all sides, and people would shout "Russo dogs!" That's what my friend told me in the early 80s, after returning from there. So they're just as much parasites as Africans. And the romantic propaganda about barbudos and islands of freedom is a sweet fairy tale. A typical Latin American junta.

[Altai2026]

Cuba's most formidable weapon is its women! These are real sex bombs!

[carpenter]

Quote: Altai2026

Cuba's most formidable weapon is Cuban women!!!!Real Sex Bombs!

Well, now it’s clear why Trump needs Cuba, it’s time to get a new wife.

[rotfuks]

The American president declared a state of emergency in the United States "due to a threat to national security emanating from Cuba."

US foreign policy is structured in such a way that a foreign threat to the country is declared dependent on the Secretary of State's origin, and it is with this country that America goes to war. For example, in 2000, Madeleine Albright was Secretary of State. During World War II, this little Jewish girl, then Marija Jana Korbelova, and her family were given shelter by Serbs from the town of Vrnjačka Banja. They helped "Madlenka" escape the Nazis. When Jana Korbelova became Madeleine Albright, at her instigation, Yugoslavia was declared a threat to the United States and subjected to targeted bombing. We saw the same thing under President Biden, whose Secretary of State was Antony Blinken, a native of Odessa, who, as per tradition, dragged his native Ukraine into a political crisis that escalated into military action. And if the current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is of Cuban descent, then it is not surprising that Cuba was declared a threat to the United States and now Cuba faces hard times.

[Roman 11]

Hands off Cuba! We won't let anyone hurt her - where is Nikita Khrushchev with his shoe?

[Dave36]

Well, as one grandmaster once said, it's gotten boring, we need some action. He was heard.

[Word]

A shot ear gets away with a lot, it's a shame for the shooter, he should have used a double-barreled pistol and shot with both hands.

[Roman 11]

Trump gets his feet wrong... I'm telling you, he gets up on the wrong side of the bed every morning and gets confused.

[seamen2]

*This decision was made due to the fact that Cuban authorities "cooperate with a number of regimes hostile to the United States." The White House's list includes Iran, China, Russia, Hezbollah, and Hamas.*

Well, at least he is honest when he calls Russia a hostile regime.
How can one not recall the Kremlin's memes about *partners*, which later gave way to memes about *unfriendly countries*.

[baltiksi]

Now, might rules; might is right. Who can stop the US? No one. Russia has a leader like Trump, China won't interfere. And the Soviet Union is no more. Prepare for nuclear war.

[YanniKounnar]

"Qui peut arrêter les États-Unis?"

La Chine? ...Si elle le voulait vraiment

[Roman 11]

Quote: baltiksi

who is stronger is right

It's who has more yao... therefore it's us!

[aszzz888]

Trump is going nuts...

[north 2]

Well, personally, I don't understand a lot of things. There were times in Russia worthy of emulation, when not a single cannon in Europe dared fire without Russia's permission. There were also times worthy of emulation when Europe could wait while the Russian Tsar fished. There were even times when a peasant's son, having first promised to show the West what's what, a few years later sent the first man on Earth into space. Here is one thing I don’t understand: having lost all of its imperialism, which is the only way Russia can have such power, the Kremlin still uses all of these St. George’s and St. Andrew’s Halls as shrines and witnesses to the Empire’s might, while no one is planning to recreate this Empire. Europe and the North American States are wiping their feet on our allies and friends all over the world; if there is a ban or a “shot” from these North American States, we won’t even come to the aid of our most loyal friends... So why should the Kremlin receive foreign guests in the halls that testify to the Empire’s former greatness, if the current guarantor attributes the re-creation of the empire only as the plans of people who have no brains, i.e., as if they are sick in the head.
Nostalgia, you say? No, the understanding that attempting to live in the present while ignoring one's own history—the times of one's own country's greatness and the political systems that allowed Russia to be great—leads to the question: why appropriate the coats of arms, anthems, throne rooms, and orders of the Empire as a historical legacy if plans for its restoration are recognized as a "guarantor" of the lack of understanding among those who foresaw the need to recreate the Russian Empire.

[Rybakvitya]

Now that's where the fruits of the Hazelnut Tree could bring the Trumps and Rubios to their senses! But, alas... We don't even have Nikita.

[Vik66]

Hmm, why Cuba and not the duty-free penguins of Antarctica?

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

Is Cuba a threat to Washington???? Trumpler has definitely gone crazy!!!!!!!!

[olboop]

Well, Trump is strong in his logic.
Even if the United States consisted of only Florida, Cuba would hardly be a threat to its security.
And so, as the play progresses, we must expect a second act with an analogue of the armored cruiser "Maine." The first act took place back in 1898.

[Ruslan M]

Of course, there is no point in fighting openly, but it is time to give a hint from the “twin towers” ​​series