Cuba has also discussed plans to use drones to attack US targets such as the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, according to Axios news outlet.

Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones, according to classified intelligence cited by Axios news outlet.

The report published on Sunday alleges that Cuba had discussed plans to use military drones to attack the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay as well as military vessels and possibly Key West, Florida.

The Trump administration is concerned because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisers in Havana, Axios cited a senior US official as saying.

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    Cuba has also discussed plans to use drones to attack US targets such as the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, according to Axios news outlet.

    Working hard on the propaganda to justify the US invasion of Cuba

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    Seems like blatantly obvious creation of a false pretext considering that we’ve known for a while the US is thinking of invading.

    Axios has become a joke. They’ve been the admin’s lapdog uncritically publishing their claims of negotiations going well with Iran etc. weekly and at the specific times possibly intended to influence the markets. It’s become clear it’s all just lies they’re using Axios to lend credence to…

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    Wow so Florida getting drone-swarmed by shaheds from Cuba was absolutely not on my bingo card this year, but I can absolutely see how we got here.

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      Just take a vacation for one day until those drones are all used up.

      Or just ignore it as the propaganda bullshit to manufacture consent for an attack on Cuba it is.

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        A crisis in an important waterway in the middle east is increasing the price of oil, people are talking about going to the moon, the US kidnapped a latin american president and the polio vaccine is on the news. Might as well bring that back too.

        They could also bring back Lee Harvey Oswald.

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      Cuba should just announce their intention to join the US as the 51st state and watch the administration do an overnight 180 just for shits n giggles lol.

      There’s no future where the US invades and doesn’t just keep it as an occupied territory.

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    Would they buy the actual drones, or the technical sheets on how to builld them? They don’t exactly fit under raincoat.

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    I guess the US will learn about drone warfare first hand.

    Guess nobody told the goobers in charge that drones are quite small and don’t need much infrastructure to be launched (who am I joking, they were probably told but ignored it) and that they are very hard to stop if launched in large enough numbers. You can see that happening with Ukraine and Russia which have the most experience with drone warfare, and they still can’t reliably stop them.

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    Typical authoritarian crap. The country is falling apart, people starving, no power, but somehow they can afford weapons.

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      Typical authoritarian crap. Disparage a democracy for exercising self-defense and ignore the genocidal sanctions against it by implying its issues are all self-made.

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      Tbf, if you were the leader Poland back in 1939, you would invest everything in defense too, wouldn’t you? After all, there won’t be a Cuba if Trump invading and annexes them. Trump has also proven to be completely unhinged and unpredictable with his recent invasions so you can’t trust any deals made to him. It would be like trusting Hitler not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia after a deal to give them some of the Czech territory.