There has not been much talk lately about the US doing its ‘thang” to Cuba….and now there is a memo….
The Pentagon may be quietly gearing up for a Cuba contingency—even as officials insist no decisions have been made. CBS News obtained an internal Army Reserve memo asking commanders to identify logistics, medical, engineering, and military police units that could be made available to the US Southern Command within 90 to 120 days. The document doesn’t name Cuba, but multiple US officials say the planning is aimed at the island. No deployment orders have been issued, and Southern Command declined to discuss potential movements, citing “operational security concerns.”
The planning follows months of tougher economic pressure on Havana and sharper rhetoric from President Trump, who Forbes notes called the island “an absolutely failed state” in his UN address this week, prompting a walkout of the Cuban delegation. Trump has predicted Cuba’s communist government “will fall” and in March said he expects to have “the honor of taking Cuba … in some form.” US officials have already examined options that included an Army-led air assault by the 101st Airborne Division and conducted reconnaissance around the island, though those plans stalled. The Cuba focus comes as the Trump administration pursues a more assertive “Donroe Doctrine” in the region, authorizing lethal strikes on suspected criminal targets at sea and expanding joint operations with partners like Ecuador.
We all knew that Donny had not forgotten Cuba….after all Cubans in American will pay dearly for an all out attack on the Island.
All we can do is wait to see what the idiot in charge will do next.\
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When the hell is Congress going to finally grow a spine and stop this insanity? He’s turned Canada from our closest ally into an enemy. He’s kidnapped the president of Venezuela, he’s indiscriminately bombing civilian boats in the Caribbean, he’s destroyed our relationship with Europe as a whole, he’s launched an unprovoked war with Iran, and now seems to be preparing for an invasion of Cuba? He’s got to be stopped before he starts WWIII. Cuba and Russia have a bilateral military defense agreement in place. It isn’t technically a mutual defense treaty but it would give Russia an excuse to directly attack US assets.
GF you left out the constant airstrikes in Somalia and the bombing of Yemen….he is setting up the world for a huge divide and yes possibly a major conflict….he , as you say, must be stopped. chuq
The failure of his war against Iran has given him the taste for an ‘easier’ victory in Cuba. I have a feeling he will actually try to take the country, egged on by all the ex-pats and former Cuban criminals who settled in Florida after leaving Cuba. I just hope that something else happens to take his childish mind off of it before he goes ahead. Best wishes, Pete.
I think after the midterms he will once again go to Iran….at least for awhile……chuq