# Trump's New Target: Cuba **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 30, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207 "2026-01-30T18:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/61 "2026-03-20T15:23:18Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > So nice when Russia shows the world that they’re more humanitarian than the USA. Get used to it. Like it or not, we are the new “evil empire”; attacking independent nations unprovoked, threatening several others, attacking ships at sea, pirating oil, etc. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/62 "2026-03-20T16:58:11Z")
> [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](#): > > if the US attempts to block or attack a Russian flagged tanker… One might wonder if, in that case, the Cuban regime might ask for Russia to install some sort of weaponry, maybe even nuclear-equipped rockets. Unprecedented, I know, but… ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/63 "2026-03-20T18:07:10Z")
How does the work? The United States can’t seem to decide whether we’re friends with Russia or enemies. Are we going to blockade the oil after lifting sanctions allowing Russia to make money off it’s sale? It’s so confusing. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/64 "2026-03-21T03:33:51Z")
Answer: It doesn’t work. Abandon all attempts to apply logic; it’s futile. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/65 "2026-03-21T17:09:58Z")
and threatening our erst-while ally (in Trump’s view) Canada for shipping oil to Cuba ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/66 "2026-03-21T18:25:43Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > So nice when Russia shows the world that they’re more humanitarian than the USA. Hardly. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/67 "2026-03-21T19:04:23Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > How does the work? The United States can’t seem to decide whether we’re friends with Russia or enemies. Are we going to blockade the oil after lifting sanctions allowing Russia to make money off it’s sale? It’s so confusing. Trump doesn’t know what his plan is until Putin tells him. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/68 "2026-03-22T22:13:39Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > How does the work? The United States can’t seem to decide whether we’re friends with Russia or enemies. Are we going to blockade the oil after lifting sanctions allowing Russia to make money off it’s sale? It’s so confusing. The way it works is that Trump admires Putin, while Putin has nothing but contempt for Trump. It’s like an abusive relationship. If either Trump or the violence-loving Hegseth interferes with that Russian oil tanker, then heaven help us all. This is not the Kennedy era – what we now have in charge of US policy and its military are incompetent misfits and neo-fascists all too eager to go to war. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/69 "2026-05-03T18:11:25Z")
Good grief. This hobby horse again. > **[Trump: After Iran we’ll take over Cuba](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-imposes-sanctions-cuba-194644118.html)** > > Donald Trump has warned that American forces could “almost immediately” take over Cuba on the way back from Iran. > [@](#): > > He added: “Cuba’s got problems. We’ll finish one first, I like to finish a job [first]. What we’ll do on the way back from Iran, we’ll have one of our big, maybe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier – the biggest in the world – we’ll have that come in, stop about 100 yards offshore, and they’ll say, ‘Thank you very much. We give up.’” First of all - really? You’re done with Iran? Huh. Secondly - the USS Gerald Ford is actually the largest aircraft carrier in the world. Thirdly - “‘Thank you very much. We give up. (with tears in our eyes)’”. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/70 "2026-05-03T18:55:59Z")
and the sheer hypocrisy of Trump protesting Cuban “involvement” with Iran, while ignoring his buddy Putin **actively** helping Iran kill our troops by providing intelligence to them ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/71 "2026-05-20T01:50:39Z")
I wonder if this pending indictment of Raul Castro means the Navy SEALs are heading to Havana soon: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/raul-castro-indictment-trump-cuba-9.7205353](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/raul-castro-indictment-trump-cuba-9.7205353) Venezuela was a pushover but I don’t think Cuba will be as easy as Trump thinks it is, especially since they know exactly what to expect. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207/72 "2026-05-20T12:08:09Z")
They didn’t try regime change in Venezuela. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-new-target-cuba/1027207.md?page=3)