Cuba says US claims of threat are propaganda, hypocrisy

The United States' assertion that Cuba poses a national security threat is a "gross propagandistic maneuver" designed to justify renewed interventionism, according to an article in Granma. The piece dismisses claims by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart that Russian ships, including a nuclear submarine, docking in Cuban ports constitute a threat.

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The presence of ships from a friendly nation in sovereign ports is not a threat to anyone. It is a normal practice of international relations.

"The presence of ships from a friendly nation in sovereign ports is not a threat to anyone. It is a normal practice of international relations," the article states, drawing parallels to US ships docking in Rota, Spain, or Yokosuka, Japan. It highlights Cuba's lack of foreign military bases, unlike the US's extensive global network, and its non-threatening posture towards neighbors. Instead, the article argues, Cuba has been the victim of invasions, assassination attempts, and a long-standing economic blockade.

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The threat real comes from the north, not from the south.

The narrative of Cuba as a threat is deemed "grotesque" given the US's own extensive military presence worldwide. The article suggests the true motive behind Washington's designation is political and electoral, aiming to consolidate a radicalized base in Florida and justify decades of failed "punishment" policies. This tactic, it claims, echoes the justification for the Iraq War based on "weapons of mass destruction," now recycled with "Russian spy ships" in Cuba.

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The selective naming by Washington that Cuba constitutes a threat is even more grotesque when one remembers that the United States maintains more than 800 military bases around the planet.