Cuba has also discussed plans to use drones to attack US targets such as the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, according to Axios news outlet.

Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones, according to classified intelligence cited by Axios news outlet.

The report published on Sunday alleges that Cuba had discussed plans to use military drones to attack the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay as well as military vessels and possibly Key West, Florida.

The Trump administration is concerned because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisers in Havana, Axios cited a senior US official as saying.

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[–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

according to classified intelligence

according to classified intelligence

according to classified intelligence

Is this the most obvious attempt to manufacture a casus belli in history? Or just in the running?

If you believe Cuba was on the verge of attacking the US you are brain dead.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    I wouldn’t believe it if President Kennedy rose from the grave himself and declared it.

    For those suffering from the American public education system, next year will mark 65 years since the Cuban missile crisis.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    300 lol. 300 drones wouldn't even make a good light show. For comparison, Ukraine uses 9000 a day.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I'm pretty sure those countries cant afford to ship off their drones - they need them for the active wars they are engaged in..

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    [–] 54 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Cuba has also discussed plans to use drones to attack US targets such as the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, according to Axios news outlet.

    Working hard on the propaganda to justify the US invasion of Cuba

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    Seems like blatantly obvious creation of a false pretext considering that we've known for a while the US is thinking of invading.

    Axios has become a joke. They've been the admin's lapdog uncritically publishing their claims of negotiations going well with Iran etc. weekly and at the specific times possibly intended to influence the markets. It's become clear it's all just lies they're using Axios to lend credence to...

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Obvious consent manufactoring is obvious.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    They know whats up. Bowing down never works.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Good. They should also have nukes.

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    A crisis in an important waterway in the middle east is increasing the price of oil, people are talking about going to the moon, the US kidnapped a latin american president and the polio vaccine is on the news. Might as well bring that back too.

    They could also bring back Lee Harvey Oswald.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Donnie's gonna get his 51st State, one way or the other....

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Cuba should just announce their intention to join the US as the 51st state and watch the administration do an overnight 180 just for shits n giggles lol.

    There's no future where the US invades and doesn't just keep it as an occupied territory.

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  • Wow so Florida getting drone-swarmed by shaheds from Cuba was absolutely not on my bingo card this year, but I can absolutely see how we got here.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Enough range to reach Maralago?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Would they buy the actual drones, or the technical sheets on how to builld them? They don't exactly fit under raincoat.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    OP, please reconsider posting blatant fascist warmongering propaganda as "news" without any commentary or disclaimer.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I guess the US will learn about drone warfare first hand.

    Guess nobody told the goobers in charge that drones are quite small and don't need much infrastructure to be launched (who am I joking, they were probably told but ignored it) and that they are very hard to stop if launched in large enough numbers. You can see that happening with Ukraine and Russia which have the most experience with drone warfare, and they still can't reliably stop them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I guess they don't run on oil products

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Typical authoritarian crap. The country is falling apart, people starving, no power, but somehow they can afford weapons.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Tbf, if you were the leader Poland back in 1939, you would invest everything in defense too, wouldn't you? After all, there won't be a Cuba if Trump invading and annexes them. Trump has also proven to be completely unhinged and unpredictable with his recent invasions so you can't trust any deals made to him. It would be like trusting Hitler not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia after a deal to give them some of the Czech territory.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Well the problem is they would be facing overwhelming fire power. Seems like a drop in the bucket to me.

    But look at all the dictatorships. They all do this. And I guess from all the flack I'm getting here most people think it's great. Buy weapons, not food. Got it.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Typical authoritarian crap. Disparage a democracy for exercising self-defense and ignore the genocidal sanctions against it by implying its issues are all self-made.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    So you're saying that they should waste money on 300 drones which would be pretty useless against a county that spends $1T on weapons? While the power is out? Sure makes sense. Fuck food. We need weapons.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Iran has shown how useful drones are in self defense against American imperialism. Cuba's problems are not caused by an inability to afford food, but by the USA blockading shipments of fuel (and everything else) to their country. The US is clearly ramping up to attack once their siege sufficiently weakens the country. It would be utter stupidity not to try to prepare.

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