Duration - 1:50
[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]
The U.S. government is looking for another excuse to attack and invade Cuba. Recently, Axios published a report claiming Cuba had acquired hundreds of drones and is weighing attacks on Florida, Guantánamo, and U.S. warships.
Within hours, Florida politicians Mario Díaz-Balart and Carlos Giménez were calling for military action. Major media outlets amplified the story. Buried at the bottom of the same Axios report: U.S. officials themselves say Cuba is not an imminent threat and is not planning attacks against the United States. That detail didn't make the headlines.
This is a pattern with a history. A fear narrative is constructed, amplified through media, and used to justify aggression. The script doesn't change much.
Here's what the script leaves out: Cuba has never attacked the United States. Not before 1959, not after. What Cuba has endured is decades of economic warfare, sabotage, terrorism, and assassination attempts, and threats from Washington.