Cuba is a national security threat to the US, Rubio says (www.bbc.com)
from stumu415@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 23 May 00:25
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stumu415@lemmy.zip on 23 May 00:25 next collapse

How many distractions does this regime need from the Epstein files?

kobra@lemmy.zip on 23 May 03:05 next collapse

now that you mention it, probably at least one more.

HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca on 23 May 04:22 next collapse

No no. Iran was a distraction from the Epstein files. Cuba is a distraction from Iran. Greenland will be a distraction from Cuba, and Canada will be a distraction from Greenland.

Probably.

wheezy@lemmy.ml on 23 May 07:20 collapse

The capitalist and political class of the entire western world and it’s allied countries were exposed as covering up for and being pedophiles.

This isn’t a distraction. People like you and me in the working class gave them permission to stop the charade when we didn’t chop off their heads. It’s not a distraction. It’s a continuation of it.

They are telling you bluntly that there will be no justice without us taking it by force. They are killing innocent children NOW in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Cuba. They are separating children from their parents and putting them in concentration camps on our own soil. Do you think that’s a distraction?

The only distraction that is working is the same comment (like yours) being posted over and over that seems to weigh the importance of past crimes more heavily than the ones they are enacting now and boasting about on the news. Start caring more about the “distractions” and one day we might get vengeance for all of the children this class of pedophiles makes suffer.

aarch0x40@piefed.social on 23 May 00:52 next collapse

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Anyone who believes this bullshit is a braindead moron. What are they going to do? Spread knowledge of how to develop a decent healthcare system that doesn’t financially burden patients?

wheezy@lemmy.ml on 23 May 07:17 collapse

That sounds like a real threat to the interest of the American Oligarchs. So, yeah, they are technically right.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 00:53 next collapse

Everything is a national security threat.

boydster@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 01:04 next collapse

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asshole National Security Threat

mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 May 01:44 collapse

Every agressor favourite excuse. Israel, the usa and russia

saltesc@lemmy.world on 23 May 01:17 next collapse

If anything, the US could learn some things from Cuba. They could certainly stop bullying them for the first time in decades

underThunder@thelemmy.club on 23 May 01:30 next collapse

A threat?

dohpaz42@lemmy.world on 23 May 02:22 next collapse

Self hate right here. His parents were cuban immigrants. 🙄

~If not self hate, then a serious lack of self intestinal fortitude. Either way…~

tal@lemmy.today on 23 May 03:19 next collapse

Self hate right here. His parents were cuban immigrants.

Most of the hardline anti-Castro people in the US are, I think, Cuban-American. That’s typically the reason that they’re in the US.

I don’t know if that’s a factor for Rubio in particular, but “person with Cuban background living in the US who is very unhappy with the Castro regime” is not an oddity.

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world on 23 May 08:55 collapse

People who got ousted from wealth when the revolution happened harbouring generational grudges against the regime

CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca on 23 May 05:44 next collapse

No one hates Cubans quite like the Cuban-Americans.

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip on 23 May 17:30 collapse

His parents left Cuba because they didn’t like Castro. Most Cubans that came to the US were anti-communist. I guess I can understand that, but now Rubio is using the US military and our tax money to intervene in Cuba for what are mostly reasons that are personal to him and his family history.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 23 May 02:48 next collapse

Nation state DARVOing

Casterial@lemmy.world on 23 May 03:56 next collapse

I’m like 99.9% sure Donald J Trump is a national security liability and threat?

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world on 23 May 05:00 collapse

What’s the .1 hanging on to?

Casterial@lemmy.world on 23 May 05:20 next collapse

That he doesn’t really have the brains

OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world on 23 May 05:40 collapse

Eh pretty sure that makes him even more a total liability and threat

purplish2323@piefed.social on 23 May 12:18 collapse

That he drops dead.

CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca on 23 May 05:47 next collapse

If Cuba is a threat, then any country, group, or individual can be deemed a threat to their national security. Sounds like a whole lot of INSECURITY.

MBech@feddit.dk on 23 May 06:22 next collapse

If Cuba is a threat, Hegseth really must’ve done an inconceivably bad job.

Bristlecone@lemmy.world on 23 May 07:26 next collapse

Same stupid fucking playbook every time…

fox2263@lemmy.world on 23 May 07:43 next collapse

I am peace

wampus@lemmy.ca on 23 May 08:35 next collapse

I love the semantic shenanigans that “risk” and “threat” sorts use – Risk is totally just snake oil.

“They’re a threat!”, sure… a low risk, insignificant threat. But still technically a threat. You can claim anything is a threat, given that risk assessments are totally subjective silly things. “We’ve identified flying pigs as a threat in our risk registry, so we gotta invest billions into an anti-flying pig slush fund! Security!!”

The states has been openly boasting about the numerous international war crimes its been committing for the past two years. No other country has challenged them directly on it, and few have even voiced their disagreement, out of fear of economic repercussions. No one is a threat to the US, except the US and its idiotic people / administration. Its partly why their self-destruction in international politics is so tragic.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 23 May 08:51 collapse

But still technically a threat.

Yes, but Realistically no, Cuba never did anything that harmed USA in any meaningful way.
USA however has massively harmed Cuba for 70 years now.

wampus@lemmy.ca on 23 May 09:30 collapse

Threat verbiage allows for non-threats to still be called threats, that’s the point of what I was highlighting. Flying pigs are not a threat, they don’t exist – dragons are not a threat, they don’t exist either. You can still throw them on a Risk Registry/Threat listing, and call them a threat, because there’s no definitive, objective, quantifiable process for determining what a threat is.

So yes, you can say Cuba is a threat. Even though for all practical purposes it isn’t a “real” threat or a credible threat, you can still put it on a list and declare it ‘technically’ a threat to US national security. Just like you could put flying pigs on that list, or dragons, even though neither of those things exist, nor would any sane person think theres a real risk of america falling due to flying pig attacks – if they’re on a threat list, they’re a threat.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 23 May 10:15 collapse

I didn’t contradict you, technically yes, realistically no.
Which is also what you write in your response.

I edited my post to make that part more clear.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 23 May 08:46 next collapse

Yes I bet Cuba is about as much a threat as Greenland is, and Greenland is a NATO ally!

Fuck the Satanist Americans (under the guise of Christianity) for causing human suffering around the globe.
They even do it at home too, and apparently Americans think that’s how things should be. 🤡 🤮

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 23 May 09:05 next collapse

If you don’t have evidence or reason, just claim “National Security”.

Greyghoster@aussie.zone on 23 May 09:41 next collapse

This is new news? Cuba has been Cuba for how many decades?

chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world on 23 May 11:30 next collapse

the US is a bunch of absolute pussies, apparently

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 23 May 12:12 next collapse

If I was a big country with a mighty military and more money than God, I’d be scared too. /s

TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com on 23 May 12:25 next collapse

Gee, I wonder how it got that way…

CircaV@lemmy.ca on 23 May 12:42 next collapse

Manufacturing consent

desmosthenes@lemmy.world on 23 May 14:12 collapse

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