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The Cuban government statement gave few details, but said all the dead were members of the Cuban armed forces and intelligence agencies.

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Cuba said on Sunday that 32 of its citizens had been killed in the U.S. attacks in Venezuela, including military or intelligence personnel -- a rare public signal of Cuba's importance to Venezuela and the Maduro government.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Jan 5, 2026 at 5:55 AM

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... The Cuban government said on Sunday that 32 of its citizens were killed during the U.S. raid on Venezuela ...

Pres Trump seems to think such causalities are OK because Cuba may be the next military target.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:23 PM | Reply

"The Cuban government statement gave few details, but said all the dead were members of the Cuban armed forces and intelligence agencies."

I'll bet. Such as why were they in Venezuela in our way.

Now, maybe there is a good reason for it. I'm not accusing Cuba of anything shady.

#2 | Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

"Such as why were they in Venezuela in our way."

Did you ask that when Marines blew up in Lebanon?

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:37 PM | Reply

@#2 ... Such as why were they in Venezuela in our way. ...

Why is the fact that Cubans are in Venezuela seem to be an problem for your current trolling alias?


... in our way ...

Now the US seems to have a say of how Cubans behave when they visit other countries?


Wow.


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:38 PM | Reply

"Your current trolling alias?"

Why announce yourself as the actual trolling alias with that tripe?

Grow up, bulletin board boy.

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

-Now the US seems to have a say of how Cubans behave when they visit other countries?

Of course not.

But Cuban military personnel? Something tells me we're gonna find out if we don't know already why they were there.

Oh, and find out if it's true

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:42 PM | Reply


Did you ask that when Marines blew up in Lebanon?
#3 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

idk where they supporting a prison for political opponents, with UN-documented crimes against humanity like beatings, electric shocks, and isolation.

If you know what this building is, you'd have no issue with what needed to be done, if you don't, you should shut the ---- up.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-04 11:35 PM | Reply

Beverly loves him some dead brown people

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 11:40 PM | Reply

@#6,7

So it is OK, in your trolling aliases' view, that the United States can randomly kill citizens of other countries?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:44 PM | Reply

So we just leveled the barracks with airstrikes, to secure the site for extraction of the high value targets.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 11:52 PM | Reply

... FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans ...

Also ...

Cuba is left reeling in the aftermath of the Venezuela strike
www.cnn.com

... For months as the US military prepared to strike Venezuela, many Cubans have asked me a simple, if disconcerting, question: "Are we next?"

Following the devastating attacks on Venezuelan military bases and surgical apprehension of leader Nicols Maduro by US Special Forces, Cuba seems very much in the Trump administration's sights.

Maduro's capture is a seismic reversal of fortune for Cuba's communist-run government, which for decades has relied on massive aid packages from its oil-rich South American ally for the island's very survival.

At a protest Saturday in front of the US Embassy in Havana, a defiant Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel promised not to let the Cuba-Venezuela alliance go down without a fight.

"For Venezuela, of course for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own life, but at a heavy cost," Diaz-Canel proclaimed.

But if anything, the Cubans I have spoken with since the strikes seemed shocked by how easy it seemed for the US military to snatch Maduro without any loss of US personnel. ...


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:07 AM | Reply

*** President Nicolas Maduro's Dance Moves Were Last Straw for Dotard Trumpf ***

"Mr Maduro's regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some of the Trumpf junta that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff. So the White House decided to follow through on its military threats."

Link: x.com

The Trumof junta was going after Nicolas Maduro no matter what. The vast array of military power deployed to the AOR, SOUTHCM CDR Adm Holsey's abrupt retirement, massive CIA/NSA/DIA/NRO surveillance of Maduro, and Delta Team rehearsals in mock ups are evidence of that.

USSOCOM told Dummkopf Trumpf when they were going in, based on weather, much like in 1944 when the field commanders told Ike the best time to land on Normandy (Operation Overlord AKA D-Day).

Maduro's dancing got Trumpf's panty hose in a bundle and hobgoblin Stephen Miller probably shrieked "Der Fuhrer vill not be mocked by this brown skin!"

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-05 12:28 AM | Reply

Trump is like an egg-sucking dog. Now that he's learned how good the taste of murder is, he will never stop.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-05 05:55 AM | Reply

At Mar-a-Lago last June, Dummkopf Trumpf watched US munitions explode on the Houthis in utter fascination, calling them "animals" and "savages."

The USIC knew that Nicolas Maduro's bodyguards included Cubans and when Trumpf must have been advised of that fact and the possible repercussions, he didn't care.

There are reportedly 200 Russian military advisors in Venezuela. None of them were reported killed or wounded.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-05 06:58 AM | Reply

There are reportedly 200 Russian military advisors in Venezuela. None of them were reported killed or wounded.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

And the Maduro government is intact and in power. I'm wondering what's really changed.

No American oil company is going to Venezuela any time soon. What a stupid god-damned idea.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-05 07:47 AM | Reply

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com
Tom Emmer: "Donald Trump is the president of peace and what he's doing is stabilizing the region"

bsky.app

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-05 08:01 AM | Reply

And the Maduro government is intact and in power. I'm wondering what's really changed.
No American oil company is going to Venezuela any time soon. What a stupid god-damned idea.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-05 07:47 AM | Reply | Flag

Weeks before JFK's assassination, CIA orchestrated the overthrow of unpopular Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem on 2 Nov 1963.

The ARVN installed their CIA-backed generals and continued the same brutal policies.

With Venezuela, the USG removed Maduro but the government is still intact, as you said.

What was the Trumpf junta thinking with their plan, that things would fall neatly into place for them after arresting Maduro?

This overthrow scheme was concocted by Empty Suit Marco Rubio, so here we are.


#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-05 09:16 AM | Reply

I am beginning to think that FIFA does not understand what a Peace Prize means.

#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-05 11:45 AM | Reply

They just wanted to make sure the Fat Idiot didn't deport Messi

#19 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-05 11:51 AM | Reply

One,

According to AI, the building is government and security offices but was originally intended to be a mall.

What is your point of asking?

#20 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-05 07:26 PM | Reply

---- off dumbass

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-05 09:08 PM | Reply

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