The US president has repeatedly hinted at a possible regime-change operation on the island.
A Democratic-led effort to limit US President Donald Trump’s authority to use military force against Cuba without congressional authorization has failed in the Senate.
The Republican-majority Senate’s vote on the measure on Tuesday narrowly dismissed it as out of order in a 51-47 tally on grounds that there are no active hostilities with Cuba.
Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat who introduced the war powers resolution in March, said it was needed as Trump’s blockade of the island had caused “humanitarian crises across Cuba,” including disruptions to medical care, shortages of clean water and rising food prices.
Trump imposed an oil blockade on Cuba in February, tightening the decades-old US embargo by threatening sanctions against countries and companies that ship crude to the island. He has repeatedly hinted at possible regime-change operations against the socialist government in Havana, pledging “a new dawn for Cuba” and warning that it is “next” after he is “finished with this,” in reference to the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.
Trump said his policy of “peace through strength” – including the raid to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in January – had been “very, very successful.”
Cuba has faced nationwide blackouts and severe fuel shortages in recent months, after Venezuela – once its main oil supplier – halted shipments under US pressure.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez condemned Washington’s “ferocious blockade” of fuel supplies, calling it a “brutal onslaught” on the country’s economic system.
The situation briefly eased in late March, when a Russian tanker delivered 100,000 tons of crude after reportedly bypassing the US blockade. Trump later said that Washington doesn’t “mind having somebody get a boat load” into the island, as “they need to survive.” Moscow has said it will maintain support for Cuba amid the tightening blockade.
Why bother with little ol Cuba? Trump is on a roll – he should attack China and Russia – because the Senate won’t stop him.
Because that’s where the US Democrats get their communism training from and that’s why the Democrats stopped him.
More warmongering on its way?
Are you TDS sufferers all gonna start posting breathlessly about how Cuba has always been a great country and such a good government to its people like you did with Gaza, Venezuela and Iran? 😆🤦♂️
Can’t wait to hear the mental gymnastics when he hits North Korea, lol
Do you even understand what you are raving about, I wonder?
But why male models? 🤔
What is it with Iraq, Syria, Venezuela and Libya that draws the regime-change fire?
Short answer is actually what they are without – a controlled central bank issuing fiat currency.
The longer answer requires coming to grips with the foundation of the Western economic system and that foundation dates from about 1200AD – the edict pronounced by Maimonides allowing the practice of Usury…..albeit only against gentile folk in his case.
What was a universal prohibition by all major religions became an accepted practice as first “Christian” Kings funded Wars by borrowing at interest and the general populace succumbed to the lure of debt. The late 1700s saw the rise of Banking dynasties expanding markets for their “products” .
People just don’t seem to get it.
If I lend my tractor to you, there is wear and tear to consider. There is the time I am deprived of it’s use while it is providing a benefit to you so there is good reason for a hire fee. This is not the case if I lend you money. There is no wear and tear and if usury is prohibited, I am not disadvantaged financially.
What about inflation you ask. Inflation is the direct result of usury. Eliminate one you eliminate the other.
Imagine a World without usury, one in which Bankers don’t lend, they take a stake in the property or business.
Worthless fantasy of a dreamer? In fact that is how its done in most Muslim countries.
The conflict in toda’s World is idealogical – the Cold War warmed over.
Best comment I’ve read in a long time 🎯