Inventing a 'Threat' from Cuba
There is no real threat to the United States from Cuba.
Daniel Larison 7/21/26
Marco Rubio’s State Department is desperately trying to make people scared of Cuba:
A US State Department report on Monday accused Cuban spies of infiltrating the highest levels of government in Washington and aiding “left-wing terrorism” on American soil.
Containing little new information, the report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” comes as US President Donald Trump pushes to end communist rule of the island while amping up anti-leftist rhetoric at home.
The report on Cuba would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. The administration wants to invent an excuse for toppling the Cuban government, so now they are pretending that Cuba is supporting “terrorism” here. Trying to paint domestic political opponents as agents of a foreign government is one of the oldest tricks in the book. The administration also wants to treat domestic opponents as a security threat, and it is using imaginary Cuban infiltration as the pretext for doing so. Like Rubio’s conference on “left-wing terrorism,” this is nonsense. There is no real threat to the United States from Cuba.