Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Thursday told the House Armed Services Committee that he wants to give President Biden the authority to intervene militarily in Cuba to “take out” Chinese assets that are allegedly on the island.
“I support an Authorization for Use of Military Force to take out the Chinese assets in Cuba,” Gaetz said. He wanted to add the AUMF as an amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) but had to withdraw it for procedural reasons.
“To my hawk friends on the committee who think I’m too much of a dove, this amendment is an authorization to use military force given to President Biden to take out the Chinese assets in Cuba,” he said.
Gaetz’s comments came after The Wall Street Journal reported Beijing and Havana are negotiating to establish a joint military training facility in Cuba, which cited unnamed US officials who based the claim on “convincing but fragmentary” intelligence.
US officials also recently claimed that China has had spying capabilities in Cuba since at least 2019, which Beijing has denied. But if the claims are true and Beijing is looking to build military assets and spying facilities in Cuba, it would be a response to the US building up militarily in areas near China, particularly Taiwan, which is about as far from mainland China as Cuba is from Florida.
The Journal report said that some US intelligence officials say “that Beijing sees its actions in Cuba as a geographical response to the US relationship with Taiwan: The US invests heavily in arming and training the self-governing island that sits off mainland China and that Beijing sees as its own.”
This year, the US deployed about 200 troops to Taiwan, marking the largest known US military presence on the island since 1979. The US also recently signed a deal to expand its military presence in the Philippines and is frequently sailing ships and flying planes in sensitive areas near China, including the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
Well, that was fast. Went right from fake dove on Ukraine to uber hawk on China.
He got cut out of the Ukraine muhlaw, but, don’t want to miss the China gravy train.
He’s the poster-boy for bourgeois politician: money grubbing pedophile bootlicker; and for why bourgeois electoral politics is just a low grade suckers’ game. But I think he’s proposing an “illegal and unprovoked invasion.”
More likely fake on anything. Feeling the wind for what pays better.
Why would the most powerful and scientifically advanced country on Earth spend good money on spy capabilities in Cuba? It’s way easier to study US social strife and collapsing infrastructure in the daily news.
I see Matt Gaetz has fallen off the ‘Ron Paul peace wagon’ and onto the ‘warmongers wagon’.
I knew it was too good to last.
So, is this child fine with China taking out American assets on Taiwan?
Because I am assuming that is what they will do if Gaetz gets his way.
This just proves that Gaetz was never a principled noninterventionist or anti war person. There is really only differences around the margin between the various shades of war mongers.
So true and well said.
Rep. Matt Gaetz is an opportunist from the word go. He lied his way out of child-abuse charges and now is willing to do or say anything to advance his nefarious career.
Gaetz knows his resolution will never go thru, this is just all posture. Boebert pulled the same
With the Biden impeachment.
“Rep. Gaetz Wants to Give Biden Military Authorization to Take Out ‘Chinese Assets’ in Cuba – Gaetz wanted to add an amendment to the NDAA for the authorization”
Sure attack a Chinese base in Cuba and see if China targets Guam.
So if the yanks take out Chinese assets whats to stop the Chinese taking out US assets in Japan , Australia ect ect ect ? , the yanks could be looking at another beating JFK lost the head to head over the Cuban missile crisis , i have no doubt the yanks will lose again .
“. . . JFK lost the head to head over the Cuban missile crisis. . .”
No. Everyone was a winner. It was really, really close, but both sides and the rest of the world won.
rep Gaetz wants to give President Biden the authority to intervene militarily in Cuba to “take out” Chinese assets that are allegedly on the island
yes go ahead and fire a missile at Cuba in order to destroy the brand new spy-balloon launching pad that China is building over there
A military attack on Cuba — how 1960’s. Early 1960’s. It was a bad idea then.
Nutjob.
“This is your rifle, this is your gun, this is for fighting and this is for fun”, Mr. Gaetz.
The inescapable blatant hypocrisy…
What a piece of shit…
It never fails.
Gaetz gets all sorts of giddy love notes because he proposes legislation to stop the war in Ukraine
We all just love our Gaetz…..
Now he returns to form and it appears he wants on to go on Hannity and tell his cameras how he’s going to kick China’s butt.
Like everything Gaetz proposes this has no chance so other than the opportunity to make fun of him (and his hairline) so this does not matter in the scheme of things.
Ok. You could use his forehead as a movie screen.
that is called a five-head
He wasn’t really paying for ho’s either.
Just because he gave them a few hundred for a Uber and bought them groceries dies notvmean they are “professionals” but rather one of those cute young things that never have jobs but live in swell apartments and a succession of horny older boyfriends paying their way.
I live very close by a private lake with very nice homes on it. You should see the silly women and the older boyfriends there.
They are not ptofessionals either but have graduated from what Gaetz’s girls were, to the BMW driving trophy girlfriends for the rich guys.
He must have a new underage girlfriend he is trying to impress with his ‘warhawkness’.
Those girls were overage and were quite honestly the clueless types whose boyfriends pay their bills but have not quite obtained professional ho status.
If they stay with it they’ll become a “kept woman” likely like their moms.
I’m so disappointed with this view. I had thought he was a serious antiwar guy when he introduced legislation to end one of our wars. I even went as far as to post articles about him on my social media even though it caused a lot of arguing. Now I regret that, lol.
I’m all for a zone of safety for America but the implementation of the Monroe Doctrine and our treatment of Cuba in my opinion have disqualified us from any moral high ground.
If China can help the Cuban people obtain a higher quality of life then they get under the American embargo then they should go for it.
I think we should just authorize Gaetz to go take the out himself. Do we want to declare war on Cuba?
The only reason anybody has ever heard of Gaetz is that he’s in a “safe” district. He may be too dumb to realize that whatever China is doing in Cuba pales by comparison with what Biden is doing in Taiwan. So, he’s probably an imbecile (as opposed to a hypocrite)