Cuban Security Forces Kill Four Foreign Intruders

[Deadstick]

The Cubans claim to have shot four men onboard a speed boat that refused orders to stop and fired on the Cubans.

Cuba Says Its Forces Shot And Killed Four On U.S.-Registered Speedboat In Its Waters

Cuba’s Interior Ministry announced on February 25 that four men on a speedboat registered in the United States were shot...

www.southfront.press

 

[1srelluc]

I just finished reading about that.....Meh, they should not have strayed into Cuban waters.....Darwin is rewarded.

Sort of like the brit couple who thought it would be a real good idea to motorcycle across Iran and ended up in prison there.

The British couple, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, embarked on a world motorbike tour, crossing into Iran from Armenia on December 30. Despite government warnings against travel to Iran, they decided to proceed with their journey. Their social media posts revealed their enjoyment of their time in Iran, including visits to cities like Tabriz, Tehran, and Isfahan. However, their plans unraveled when they were detained in January, accused of gathering intelligence under the guise of tourism. The couple's actions and the subsequent charges have raised concerns about the risks associated with travel to Iran.
LBC+3

 

[Deadstick]

I just finished reading about that.....Meh, they should not have strayed into Cuban waters.....Darwin is rewarded.

Sort of like the brit couple who thought it would be a real good idea to motorcycle across Iran and ended up in prison there.

The British couple, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, embarked on a world motorbike tour, crossing into Iran from Armenia on December 30. Despite government warnings against travel to Iran, they decided to proceed with their journey. Their social media posts revealed their enjoyment of their time in Iran, including visits to cities like Tabriz, Tehran, and Isfahan. However, their plans unraveled when they were detained in January, accused of gathering intelligence under the guise of tourism. The couple's actions and the subsequent charges have raised concerns about the risks associated with travel to Iran.
LBC+3

They couldn't possibly be spies.

 

[JWBooth]

 

[1srelluc]

They couldn't possibly be spies.

Nah, can't be.

 

[JWBooth]

One version I’ve seen is a boat load of MAGAt retards with the notion of doing their own regime change/bay of pigs.
Another is CIA trying infiltrate subversives.
Yet another has the crew trying to slip in and smuggle folks out.

 

[Deadstick]

One version I’ve seen is a boat load of MAGAt retards with the notion of doing their own regime change/bay of pigs.
Another is CIA trying infiltrate subversives.
Yet another has the crew trying to slip in and smuggle folks out.

It's hard to say but are the CIA that stupid? probably.

 

[JWBooth]

It's hard to say but are the CIA that stupid? probably.

This stuff was all on twitter so it is all easily discounted. The US is the only country with any real restrictions on travel to and from Cuba so infiltration through Mexico, Canada, or any other Central or South American country would be relatively easy.
I did see a headline this morning that suggests the first scenario is the one closest to what was going on. Gonna read it a little later.

 

[Care4all]

It's hard to say but are the CIA that stupid? probably.

No! They just are not that stupid....has to be someone else....

 

[1srelluc]

It's hard to say but are the CIA that stupid? probably.

The general reaction is "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" so you had to bring in a US .gov agency into it.....Typical.

 

[Care4all]

Bet Cuba would not have annihilated them, if Trump hadn't opened up the door with his hundred plus boats off Venezuela that he blew up....

Capturing the boat and people and interrogating them would have given Cuba more info on them being spies, drug smugglers, people smugglers or just plain dumb....imo.

 

[Deadstick]

Bet Cuba would not have annihilated them, if Trump hadn't opened up the door with his hundred plus boats off Venezuela that he blew up....

Capturing the boat and people and interrogating them would have given Cuba more info on them being spies, drug smugglers, people smugglers or just plain dumb....imo.

They opened fire on the Cuban coast guard with automatic weapons.

 

[Deadstick]

The general reaction is "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" so you had to bring in a US .gov agency into it.....Typical.

Of course i brought them into it, you talk as if they don't operate that way, or could be a Bay of Pigs Tribute act.

 

[martybegan]

I just finished reading about that.....Meh, they should not have strayed into Cuban waters.....Darwin is rewarded.

Sort of like the brit couple who thought it would be a real good idea to motorcycle across Iran and ended up in prison there.

The British couple, Craig and Lindsay Foreman, embarked on a world motorbike tour, crossing into Iran from Armenia on December 30. Despite government warnings against travel to Iran, they decided to proceed with their journey. Their social media posts revealed their enjoyment of their time in Iran, including visits to cities like Tabriz, Tehran, and Isfahan. However, their plans unraveled when they were detained in January, accused of gathering intelligence under the guise of tourism. The couple's actions and the subsequent charges have raised concerns about the risks associated with travel to Iran.
LBC+3

I think they are Cuban Expats who got over excited about what is happening to Cuba's economy and thought the time had come to begin an insurgence against the Commies.

I would advise them to let the current strategy of economic strangulation proceed. It may take more time, but the Castroites are on the way out.

 

[JoeB131]

I would advise them to let the current strategy of economic strangulation proceed. It may take more time, but the Castroites are on the way out.

They've been saying that longer than I've been alive.

And I'm old.

If they really, really wanted to get rid of the Communist regime, they should drop sanctions and allow free travel.

Once the Castroites realize they can't blame the country's shortcomings on America and the Cubans go visit their relatives in Flordia, and see how nice they have it (despite living in Florida) the push for change would be impossible to ignore.

Does anyone find it odd that the two countries that still embrace outright communism - North Korea and Cuba - are the ones the West has put so much emphasis on isolating?

 

[martybegan]

They've been saying that longer than I've been alive.

And I'm old.

If they really, really wanted to get rid of the Communist regime, they should drop sanctions and allow free travel.

Once the Castroites realize they can't blame the country's shortcomings on America and the Cubans go visit their relatives in Flordia, and see how nice they have it (despite living in Florida) the push for change would be impossible to ignore.

Does anyone find it odd that the two countries that still embrace outright communism - North Korea and Cuba - are the ones the West has put so much emphasis on isolating?

The thing is the people usually helping them are in less of a condition to help. They picked the wrong side in 1959, and now they will have to pay the piper for it.

When has a Communist country allowed people to leave and go visit other places unless they were die hard party members?

 

[JoeB131]

The thing is the people usually helping them are in less of a condition to help. They picked the wrong side in 1959, and now they will have to pay the piper for it.

When has a Communist country allowed people to leave and go visit other places unless they were die hard party members?

I'm trying to find something without a paywall, but 1.3 million Chinese visited the US last year.

statista.com/statistics/1047804/inbound-travel-from-the-china-to-the-us/?srsltid=AfmBOop2rtdcFni91WvY6jjGMa0ktKQ0eoEnt0vpOYe-aTGnl6UwiNk7

Still, nowhere near the high numbers of 3.1 Million in 2017.

 

[martybegan]

I'm trying to find something without a paywall, but 1.3 million Chinese visited the US last year.

statista.com/statistics/1047804/inbound-travel-from-the-china-to-the-us/?srsltid=AfmBOop2rtdcFni91WvY6jjGMa0ktKQ0eoEnt0vpOYe-aTGnl6UwiNk7

Still, nowhere near the high numbers of 3.1 Million in 2017.

China is a unique situation, and that only happened after they went Capitalist/Communist.

Cuba and NK would see a brain drain similar to what the East Germans saw and were compelled to build the Berlin wall.

 

[JoeB131]

China is a unique situation, and that only happened after they went Capitalist/Communist.

Cuba and NK would see a brain drain similar to what the East Germans saw and were compelled to build the Berlin wall.

But that's the thing. China and the West opened relations after Deng Xiaoping. As a result, they became a more open society.

Cuba, on the other hand, we are still punishing for picking a form of government we don't like.

 

[martybegan]

But that's the thing. China and the West opened relations after Deng Xiaoping. As a result, they became a more open society.

Cuba, on the other hand, we are still punishing for picking a form of government we don't like.

Actually for stealing our resources and choosing the losing side.

They can fix it by having open elections, nice and easy.