The shift comes as administration officials struggle to convince the Cuban regime to make major economic and political changes. 05/18/2026
[horrible, but informative article]
The Trump administration has been dancing around the question of whether it will carry out military strikes against Cuba. I am told it is increasingly willing to take such a step.
That’s a significant escalation from a few months ago, when officials were primarily focused on using economic and diplomatic pressure to squeeze the communist regime in Havana.
A U.S. official and a person familiar with the administration’s discussions on Cuba told me that President Donald Trump and his aides have grown frustrated that the U.S. pressure campaign, which includes starving the island of fuel, has not led Cuba’s leaders to agree to significant economic and political reforms. So they’re taking the military option more seriously than previously.
“The mood has definitely changed,” said the person familiar with discussions
We live in a country that because of our natural ocean boundaries and peaceful bordering countries, we haven’t had to worry much about actual physical attacks on our soil. So let’s go ahead and attack a country right off our coast, a country allied with Russia, so we can possibly have foreign countries attacking us on our own soil. That sounds great. /s
Russia has not been much of an ally, the Soviets were kind of half-hearted allies but that stopped. I know Putin just sent like some fuel but it’s not enough it’s not what they were getting before.