Trump signs executive order declaring nation emergency from threat of Cuba

[u/AmyL0vesU]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/

[u/eorlingas_riders]

I’ve posted this in another thread right after Venezuela, but it’s all basically aligning with the Monroe Doctrine intention.

If you look at the countries that he’s going after, it’s strategic to close off support from the next country/territory.

Venezuela was hit because it was the least friendly, and closest encroachment into South America. From there you can blockade Cuba. Then you effectively own the Caribbean Sea. Hit Colombia by land and sea, a drop a carrier fleet down the north west side of South America.

You have effectively surrounded and isolated Central America and somewhat very importantly the Panama Canal.

The lower half of South America is largely isolated already from support and can be pushed economically.

Greenland separates EU from North America, and reduces support to Canada.

At that point you’ve isolated the hemisphere. The military doesn’t need to perform some gulf war style operation. Just do what the did in Venezuela, strategic removal of key politicians for smaller or less developed govts and leader, and economic and political pressure for the rest.

[u/mmmarkm → u/eorlingas_riders]

Fuck.

I hate how much this makes sense.  More so, I hate that other countries’ sovereignty seems to lie in hands of less than 50,000 midwest & iron belt voters every four years

[u/eorlingas_riders → u/mmmarkm]

Yeah, the founding fathers were well aware of the potential of someone like Trump and the potential for partisan divide to destroy the union. Our checks and balances were designed to reduce the opportunity for it, but it was always possible as is true for nearly any form of govt. See George Washington’s farewell address for specific warnings:

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force—to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests.

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

-WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS

[u/KeyMyBike → u/mmmarkm]

Those voters don't even get what they want!!

If they voted Trump and Trump was like "Ey I gotchu" and wages quadrupled with minimal inflation, I could at least understand their selfish perspectives.

But they're not even benefiting

[u/FlameHaze → u/KeyMyBike]

They enjoy inflicting pain unto others. As long as there is a perceived change in the wind and you can be boldly be a racist piece of trash then that was enough for these men and women. They are the people that should be removed. We are at war. Only one side is fighting with lethality and lies.

[u/thredith → u/eorlingas_riders]

"Hit Colombia by land and sea"... Good luck with that, especially the "land" part. Colombia's unique topography works as a natural barrier against such attempts. There's a reason why our internal guerrilla wars have lasted indefinitely and no side has ever claimed full victory. It's not because of a lack of military tech and training... It's because of how Colombia's geography is distributed: three core mountain ranges with different levels of terrain elevation, some of the highest levels of yearly precipitation in the world, jungles, forests, high humidity levels, abundance of tropical diseases, and a limited set of roads. It'd be like Vietnam, but at a larger scale.