Trump's Cuba Question: Invasion, Blockade, or Bluff

Iran Herald · June 14, 2026 Politics

Pressure on the Cuban government has been building almost by the week, and the latest sign of it came on 10 June, when US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a visit to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay to warn Havana against acquiring weapons capable of reaching the base or the American mainland. Doing so, he told reporters, would invite a confrontation the island "could not stand", according to Al Jazeera.

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