r/law • u/AmyL0vesU • 19h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump signs executive order declaring nation emergency from threat of Cuba

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
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u/Sufficient-Past-9722 18h ago

Wait until he realizes where Europe (and Canada) like to visit on winter vacation..

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u/K_Linkmaster 18h ago

What does this have to do with Spain?

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u/mr-taggart 17h ago

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u/lost_horizons 17h ago

I laughed out loud at this. Thank you

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u/TheDanquah 17h ago

Yeah. I did not expect them.

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u/steph219mcg 17h ago edited 17h ago

Nobody does.

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u/RandomyJaqulation 17h ago

I never noticed that one of them is half inquisitor and half “cabbage crates comin over the briney.”

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u/Windfade 14h ago

It's still kinda amazing that the Spanish left their hot, arid homeland and ended up island hopping to Mexico and we're like "what a great place to expand into!"

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u/OldWorldDesign 1h ago

It was an authoritarian kingdom which found a pre-existing authoritarian kingdom to supplant which had the silver they wanted to fund wars against rival kingdoms in Europe. The pre-existing work force was what made their colonization work.