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Cuba Under Threat of Attack

HAVANA TIMES – If there’s one thing the Trump Administration understands, it’s timing.

Hours after Cuba’s International Workers’ Day parades ended (officially celebrated under the nationalist slogan “The Homeland Is Defended”), on May 2 Trump supposedly finalized his decision to “take Cuba” with the public threat of placing the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln just 100 yards (91 meters) from the Cuban coast. Obviously, within Cuban territorial waters.

This time Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez wasted no time, immediately and categorically condemning the “new clear and direct threat of military aggression” by imperialism, unprecedented in the interest of “tiny elites” in the United States, while appealing to the people’s courageous capacity for resistance and to international solidarity.

Other responses were more peculiar: the provincial First Secretary of the Communist Party in Granma went to a Spiritualist center in Bayamo, where she participated in a spiritual cordon ceremony meant to ward off the military attack, afterward posting photos online. A more militarized pro-government influencer released a fully AI-generated Lego-style animation in which Cuba attacked Yankee ships using Russian Grad rocket launchers (“granddaughters” of the famous WWII Katyushas, produced in the 1960s). The fortunate surviving invaders were then exchanged for cans of baby food compote (as happened after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961). All this despite the fact that the wars in Ukraine and Iran have completely rewritten NATO tactical manuals regarding the effectiveness of old combat systems in the face of drones and electronic warfare.

The opposition did not stay quiet either. One digital outlet asked its followers when they believed the aircraft carrier would become visible from Cuba’s shores. As far as I saw, most commenters pointed to May 20 (the anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Cuba under US protectorate status in 1902). Within hours, the same platform published another article analyzing the comments generated by the first post. They said the dominant feeling was one of necessity and urgency. Apparently, they calculated that the most repeated word in the comments was “now,” and they quoted several remarks revealing people’s desperation for an........

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