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So a Cuban “victory” will come with sanctions lifted, the closure of Guantanamo Bay, and South Beach ceded.

  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    Here is the post:

    “All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE. In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!”

    Trump always admits things by being Mr Opposite. This tells me they’ve been planning, or seriously discussing, nuke strikes.

    I’m not sure if any of them are dumb enough, but I’m consistently surprised by how evil they all are. I’m not putting it past them at this point.

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    If Trump invades or threatens to invade cuba, his skills from “the Art of the Deal” will probably result in Cuba owning Texas or Florida.

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      4 hours ago

      And just like the First, it worked out at the very beginning when people weren’t expecting it but then quickly turned to shit, just on a very accelerated timeline.

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    7 hours ago

    So a Cuban “victory” will come with sanctions lifted, the closure of Guantanamo Bay, and South Beach ceded.

    I wish, but I don’t think Cuba has any kind of leverage that would cost the US anything. I’m pretty concerned that this will actually be an “easy win”. :/

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      I don’t think Cuba has any kind of leverage that would cost the US anything.

      Cubans have their own military and mid-range weapons. They aren’t nearly as fortified as the Iranians, and they don’t have a straight line to Russia or China for support, but they can absolutely put missiles all along the Gulf Coast if push comes to shove. They’re - bare minimum - as dangerous as Yemen is to Saudi Arabia.

      It would be hell on earth for the island, though. Nobody actually wants a shooting war with the US. God only knows how many civilians would die as a result.

      And the real second-order consequence of a US invasion of Cuba would be the flood of refugees. People would flee the island in droves. Jamaica, the Yucatan, the Bahamas, Haiti, hell Florida - they’d be inundated with people fleeing the country. As bad as US relations are with the Caribbean states, this would make things so much worse. You’re talking about and island of 10M people. It would be chaos.

      • rbos@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        Lotta oil refineries in range of Cuba.

        Naval drones in the Mississippi delta would be a problem.