Someone in the Trump administration told Axios they are concerned about the potential for a drone attack by Cuba:
Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels and possibly Key West, Fla., 90 miles north of Havana, according to classified intelligence shared with Axios.
Why it matters: The intelligence — which could become a pretext…
“Pretext”? How about “good reason”?
…for U.S. military action — shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisers in Havana, a senior U.S. official said.
The Cuban regime is apparently in its death throes. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was there last week:
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Cuba on Thursday and bluntly warned officials there against engaging in hostilities. He also urged them to scrap their totalitarian government to end crippling U.S. sanctions, a CIA official told Axios.
I doubt that the threat of a drone attack is very serious. If Cuba attacked Key West, we would bomb them into the Stone Age. Only–come to think of it–Cubans are already living in the Stone Age, or at least the pre-electricity, pre-modern age.
Cuba is a great example of how long an incompetent, tyrannical and utterly discredited regime can hold on to power as long as it has a monopoly on guns. But Cuba’s tyranny does appear to be drawing to a long-overdue close.
