Furious over the failed coup d’etat in Venezuela, President Trump is
threatening to take it out on Cuba. In comments later in the day, Trump
threatened to impose a ‘full and complete embargo” against Cuba over Venezuela.
Administration officials were loudly backing the coup throughout the
day, and John Bolton is claiming Cuban troops were a major part of
keeping President Maduro in power in Venezuela.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel rejected Trump’s threat, saying that
Cuba has no troops in Venezuela, nor is it engaged in any military
operations there. They added “enough lies, already.”
The administration has been keen to move against Cuba for awhile anyhow,
and has tried to tie the Venezuela issue to the fate of Cuba as well.
In all likelihood, Trump would be threatening Cuba whether Venezuela
had been a success or not, and this is just a new justification to go
after them.
This is the very sad part about President Trump. He is an ignorant man who does not read nor does he study issues or study anything for that matter and because of that he can be easily manipulated, especially when presented with a money making opportunity for American oil companies. I am sure Trump doesn’t know anything about Cuba or Venezuela at all; he is only being spoon fed propaganda and BS from Bolton, Pompeo, and Abrams; hence, why Trump makes these empty threats.
The imperial arrogance is just stunning.
Still waiting for Trump’s master plan of giving his neocon appointees enough rope to hang themselves in Venezuela as we were told. Or maybe at some point the Don will don the good cop cape and expose his neocon appointees as enemies of the state. Or better yet maybe some of our Trump loyalists can tell us that this is just a result of the Mueller report and the exonerated peace president hands are still tied because of it.
Wooooooooo sanctions and embargoes on CUBA- I’m pretty sure they’re shaking in their boots because they haven’t ever dealt with those since, oh, 1958.
Time to get a Russian Fleet down to Havana. A few nuclear tipped missiles will prevent the US from embargoing Cuba…
Which country is next for the everlasting sanctions while the US refuses to repair its own infrastructure (except walls to keep out Latinos) and seems to be ready to attack anyone using the “mightiest military ever seen on earth” if the cruel economic destruction fails.
God, I miss Hugo and Fidel. Say what you will about their politics but they would have had fun making sandwich spread out of these tools and I would have had fun watching them do it.