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(4,059 posts) Thu Mar 19, 2026, 09:16 PM Thursday

Erik Sperling: As US starves Cuba of energy & food, neocon Cotton wants DOD to be ready for a "humanitarian crisis,"

flow of refugees," or "civil disorder" in Cuba

Southcom is "prepared to support DHS in a mass migration event" including a "camp to deal with those migrants" at Gitmo, he says

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America under Republican rule, 2026.

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Erik Sperling: As US starves Cuba of energy & food, neocon Cotton wants DOD to be ready for a "humanitarian crisis," (Original Post) Passages Thursday OP

Effin evil malaise Thursday #1

Yes, it is beyond immoral. Passages Thursday #2

What we are doing to the Cuban people right now is awful OhioBlue Thursday #3

For no logical reason. Passages Thursday #4

... Solly Mack Thursday #5

Once Cuba is depopulated and its people deported... ananda Thursday #6

The oil blockade's affecting food production. Igel Friday #7

malaise

(295,733 posts)

1. Effin evil

Reply to Passages (Original post)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 09:18 PM

Thursday

That is all

Passages

(4,059 posts)

2. Yes, it is beyond immoral.

Reply to malaise (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 09:22 PM

Thursday

They enjoy it.

OhioBlue

(5,201 posts)

3. What we are doing to the Cuban people right now is awful

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Thu Mar 19, 2026, 09:25 PM

Thursday

I watched a segment on PBS last night and my heart hurt for them.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/cubas-economic-and-energy-crisis-worsens-as-trump-threatens-action

Passages

(4,059 posts)

4. For no logical reason.

Reply to OhioBlue (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 19, 2026, 09:26 PM

Thursday

Horrifying.

Solly Mack

(96,899 posts)

5. ...

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Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:34 PM

Thursday

ananda

(35,069 posts)

6. Once Cuba is depopulated and its people deported...

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Thu Mar 19, 2026, 11:43 PM

Thursday

to who knows where, then I suppose Jared
and the land predators will swoop in to make
it a billionaire haven.

Right.

Igel

(37,516 posts)

7. The oil blockade's affecting food production.

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Fri Mar 20, 2026, 01:12 PM

Friday

But it's just oil that's recently blockaded.

https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/16/aid-convoy-to-deliver-more-than-20-tonnes-of-food-and-medicine-to-cuba/ talks about an attempt to provide help; China's said that it'll ship 10,000s of tons of rice to Cuba.

(Note that the PRC was a great friend of Maduro, as was Putin and Khamenei, and the PRC really wants intel installations close to the US. Russia's also coming to the country's rescue with an oil tanker heading towards it. The PRC's also pissed over the pressure to shift contracts for industrially and strategically useful metals from it to, oh, the US.)

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