Donald Trump has discovered a toy called artificial intelligence. Either because he is an early riser, or because, things of age, he wakes up and instead of counting sheep he turns to AI, his midnights or dawns arrive loaded on his social network with images of futuristic war style, among many other topics, like those this Sunday where he appeared inside a spaceship pressing the red nuclear bomb button.
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Those visualizations of the president of total war, of the leader of the end of the world, he produces amid his threat to destroy Iran, but also when the leaders and citizens of Cuba feel the breath of the U.S. military force upon them. Democratic leaders and analysts saw a clear search for justification for an operation on the island with the leak from the White House that the Havana government poses a threat to national security because it is accumulating drones for a possible attack on U.S. territory.
According to the digital media Axios, which had access to classified intelligence material, Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones since 2023 and recently began to develop plans to use them against the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay (on Cuban territory), U.S. military ships, and possibly Key West, Florida, 90 miles north of Havana.
Cuba is in absolute misery, punished by an oil blockade, imposed by Trump after the capture in January of then Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, the main fuel supplier, which causes continuous power outages and deepens the economic and social crisis on the island.
These U.S. intelligence reports, which could become a pretext for U.S. military action, as that media emphasized, show to what extent the Trump administration considers Cuba a threat due to advances in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisors in Havana, a senior Washington official explained to Axios.
“When we think about that kind of technology so close, and a variety of malicious actors, from terrorist groups to drug cartels, Iranians and Russians, it is worrying,” said that source. “It is a growing threat,” he insisted.
The reaction to this leak, for many of an interested nature, had a partisan reception. Florida Republicans, many of Cuban origin or from families that left the island after Fidel Castro took power (1959), quickly used the report to call for action from Trump while promoting initiatives to overthrow Castroism.
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“We have seen the threat that drones represent in the Middle East. Now they are 90 miles from our coasts and near critical infrastructure. It is clear that the Cuban regime is a threat to national security,” emphasized legislator Mario Díaz-Balart (familially linked to Fidel Castro) in a post on the X network.
In contrast, the Democrats were much more skeptical and even expressed doubts about the veracity of that information.
“No country in the current economic and military situation that Cuba is in would preemptively attack a superpower like the United States. This is just propaganda to build a case for an invasion of Cuba,” also replied Senator Ruben Gallego on X.
Other experts stressed that Cuba does not represent any imminent threat, nor does it have the capacity to disrupt the Florida Strait in the same way Iran does in the Strait of Hormuz.
This leak comes on the eve of the Department of Justice planning to make public in Florida on Wednesday a formal accusation against Cuba’s de facto leader, Raúl Castro (Fidel’s brother), for allegedly ordering, as Minister of Defense, the shooting down in 1996 of two planes operated by a Miami-based aid group called Brothers to the Rescue. U.S. citizens died there.
This accusation, besides trying to deal a blow to the Havana government to make it take a radical turn, is inspiring the idea that a similar action could be repeated like the one that involved the kidnapping of Maduro and his transfer to a New York prison, where he faces charges as alleged head of a narcoterrorist organization.
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