Up next, the U.S. war with Cuba

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Trump: "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

bsky.app

The man is beyond a menace.

 

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He's also an ignoramus.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Trump's full rant on Cuba: "Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know? They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba."

bsky.app

Cuba's not in a hurricane zone, huh?

 

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Trump is getting irritated Cuba hasn't folded like a cheap suit against his mean tweets and steely resolve.

Trump is growing frustrated over his lack of control over Cuba: report

President Donald Trump is growing impatient with the Cuban government's resilience despite months of sustained U.S. economic pressure, reports NBC News.According to NBC News, Trump has been pressing advisers to explain why his administration's efforts to force regime collapse have not succeeded...

www.rawstory.com

President Donald Trump is growing impatient with the Cuban government's resilience despite months of sustained U.S. economic pressure, reports NBC News.

According to NBC News, Trump has been pressing advisers to explain why his administration's efforts to force regime collapse have not succeeded. White House officials believe the regime could fall by year's end without military intervention, but Trump considers that timeline insufficient, the outlet added.

In response to the President's frustrations, the Defense Department has begun updating plans for possible military action against Cuba, should Trump order an attack, according to two U.S. officials and a former official.

Rubio is bothered they're not accepting our handouts.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized Cuba for rejecting $100 million in humanitarian aid, calling the current situation an "unacceptable status quo" given Cuba's proximity to U.S. shores.

Does he want our 54th state (after Canada, Greenland and Venezuela) as a welfare commonwealth? Has Rubio turned woke?

 

[Noodles]

God why arr these chucklefucks so obsessed with expansionism.

 

[Free]

God why arr these chucklefucks so obsessed with expansionism.

They need breathing room...

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

They need breathing room...

Say it in the proper language of the Fatherland....lebensraum.

 

[Free]

Say it in the proper language of the Fatherland....lebensraum.

They can't make me. Yet.

 

[Isabeau]

It’s not enough to empty the coffers of their own country. They want ALL the moneys, and ALL the petrol, and ALL the power.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

It’s not enough to empty the coffers of their own country. They want ALL the moneys, and ALL the petrol, and ALL the power.

Maybe the best way to predict his next move is to imagine what else he could do to damage the country further.

 

[Noodles]

I actually think they are actively trying to crash the global econmy. Rich assholes make out like bandits during huge downturns, and it will feed into some of crazy eugenics ideology if "Some of the poors die."

 

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US is expected to announce criminal case against former Cuban President Raúl Castro

The Trump administration is expected to announce a criminal case against former Cuban President Raúl Castro. That's according to two people familiar with the matter.

apnews.com

The Justice Department was expected to announce a criminal case Wednesday against former Cuban President Raúl Castro as the Trump administration escalates pressure on the socialist government, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Federal prosecutors in Miami were preparing an indictment related to Castro’s alleged role in the 1996 downing of two planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Castro, now 94, was Cuba’s defense minister at the time.

The expected charges include murder and destruction of an airplane, one of the people familiar with the matter said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case ahead of the announcement.

 

[Naluri Murai]

God why arr these chucklefucks so obsessed with expansionism.

If you're gonna do a colonialism, at least do it right.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Because McKinley didn't annex Cuba after the Spanish American War. Trump wants to add territory because he sees every President who has mentioned in the history books. Americans have been looking at Cuba since at least 1830, when Southerners wanted to add plantation land to expand slavery, which was legal in Cuba until 1886.

eta: It also explains is obsession with "Trump class battleships." While aircraft carriers made battleships obsolete (and missiles followed by drones compound their vulnerability) it was surprising to the world, including most Americans, how quickly Spain's remaining overseas empire collapsed in the face of American battleships.

 

[Casey Pelous]

.....because he sees every President who has mentioned in the history books. ...

Perhaps metaphorically, but more like "he sees every President who has mentioned on TV. And big monuments!"

That tub of partially hydrogenated goo never had anything resembling a knowledge of history.

Probably, one of his sycophants told him. "THEN everyone will know how smart and strong you are!"

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Absolutely. He is looking for a cheat code to get into the list of great Presidents.

 

[Casey Pelous]

... He is looking for a cheat code to get into the list of great Presidents.

I swear, if I was in Columbus, I'd sign up for your writin' class based solely on this sentence. Heck, I'd commute from Dayton for it.

Any chance they'll relocate that U to the PNW?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I swear, if I was in Columbus, I'd sign up for your writin' class based solely on this sentence. Heck, I'd commute from Dayton for it.

Any chance they'll relocate that U to the PNW?

If I find an opening in Portland or Seattle I would be back in a heartbeat.

 

[detrius]

Say it in the proper language of the Fatherland....lebensraum.

AKA "Manifest Destiny" - the OG "Lebensraum".