On May 21, Marco Rubio stood on the tarmac at the Miami Homestead Airport and told reporters Cuba “has been one of the leading sponsors of terrorism in the entire region.” The Secretary of State insisted Cuba is a threat to the national security of the United States, although he did not provide evidence to support the claim.

Rubio made his remarks on the same day the Justice Department unsealed a murder indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro and the United States Southern Command sent the USS Nimitz carrier strike group to the Caribbean.

The indictment concerns the Cuban shoot-down of a Brothers to the Rescue (Hermanos al Rescate) aircraft in 1996. Brothers to the Rescue is headed by José Basulto and a group of Cuban exiles. Basulto admitted in testimony he is an anti-Castro CIA operative.

CBS News reported on September 25 that the US Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel, and other support units within the next four months, according to an internal Army message.

Though the message makes no reference to Cuba, the request is for continued military planning aimed at Cuba, according to multiple U.S. officials who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Prior to the Army message, the US conducted reconnaissance operations on the seafloor and maritime approaches surrounding the Cuban island. “Separately, U.S. airpower components were placed on heightened readiness and directed to pre-stage personnel for potential deployment. Those plans, however, did not come to fruition,” according to CBS.

Cuba is “in a lot of trouble,” Rubio said in May. He warned the US is prepared to invade Cuba if and when Trump gives the order. The US Navy build-up at the time was the largest deployment outside of West Asia.

These strategically placed assets set the table for military action, from a capture of Havana’s leadership much like the seizure of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, to a series of precision strikes. And they open the possibility that the U.S. throws itself into the third international conflict of the Trump administration.

It is estimated the US would require more than 100,000 troops to conduct an invasion of Cuba and air and naval support would be essential for operational success. The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces maintain around 50,000 active soldiers and 39,000 reservists. It would not be difficult for the US military to deal with Cuba’s military. However, urban combat and insurgency in rural areas would create significant challenges.

Following Trump’s belligerent remarks earlier this year, Cuba’s Civil Defense released a multi-page guide titled The Family Guide for Protection Against Military Aggression.

The guide builds from Cuba’s defence doctrine, named War of All People, which it adopted after the fall of the Soviet Union, and envisions resisting foreign invasion by mobilising the entire civilian population through guerrilla warfare, local militias and civil defence networks.

The doctrine derives from the integration of Cuba’s nineteenth-century liberation campaigns and the ideological insights gained from experiences during the Cold War. This concept formed the official state policy during the early 1980s. It was shaped in response to the Reagan administration’s antagonistic posture and the acknowledgment that the Soviet Union would be unable or unwilling to ensure Cuba’s security in a confrontation with the United States.

“The core tenets of this doctrine assume that while a technologically superior adversary might achieve initial air and maritime dominance, it cannot successfully occupy or pacify a population that is universally armed and organized for perpetual resistance,” explains Ronin’s Grip Analytics.

Guerrilla combat operations would require an extended American military presence, thereby elevating the financial and logistical expenditures associated with intervention. Trump’s attack of Iran, for instance, has thus far cost approximately $44 billion dollars, or $1,099 per second. The president has indicated on numerous occasions he is not concerned about the cost of his war on average Americans, or the cost to future generations that will be expected to pay down the debt.

The conflict has created substantial financial pressures on American households, with estimates placing the cost at over $1,200 per household due to higher fuel prices, inflation, and military spending. Independent analyses suggest the total cost could exceed $2 trillion when accounting for military expenditures, fuel costs, and economic impacts.

In response to criticism, Trump said Americans who are worried about the cost of his war are fools. A poll conducted by YouGov in May revealed that 64 percent of Americans oppose the US going to war against Cuba, while 15 percent support it, and 21 percent are not sure.

Trump and his Cuban-American Secretary of State are either unaware or disagree that an invasion of Cuba would end badly for both Americans and Cubans, as past interventions have often led to negative consequences and instability. The costs of a ground invasion are considered enormous, making it the least attractive option for achieving political objectives in Cuba.

If Washington ultimately decides to use force, experts warn, any operation aimed at toppling the Cuban government would confront insurmountable military, political, and humanitarian risks, far worse than the administration’s rhetoric suggests. “A war in Cuba could trigger a migration crisis just 90 miles from Florida, create opportunities for other armed groups to exploit instability, and lead to a prolonged U.S. military occupation.”

In response to a question by journalist Marc Caputo, Trump said it is possible the United States may attempt to abduct the nonagenarian Raúl Castro. It remains to be seen, however, if Trump and Rubio can find a Cuban version of Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president, who cooperated with Trump and his Department of War to have Nicolás Maduro arrested on dubious “narcoterrorism” charges.

The abduction of Maduro violated international law by using military force against another state without UN Security Council authorization or a justifiable self-defense claim, according to multiple international law experts and the UN Charter’s Article 2(4).

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-prepares-invasion-cuba/5941883

Another is that wars are fought to ‘defend’ one or more nation-states (or other political group) against what people are told is a threat to some vital aspect of their national security, invariably including the lives of members of their own population.

A third widely-held belief is that politicians and officers directing the war strategy for your country (or group) are interested in minimizing casualties among your own population.

But as I explained briefly in a recent article – see ‘Resisting the New World Order: Your Technocratic Slave Camp’ – these and other common beliefs about wars (and many other subjects not considered here), including the political and legal infrastructure in which they are supposed to be contained, are simply delusions promoted by Elite-owned and controlled media and social media to consolidate your existing prejudices – nationalism being a key one in this context – distract you from any genuinely critical analysis that might make you question the dominant (that is, Elite) narratives and overwhelm you with an unending stream of trivia.

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But if wars are not meant to be won, why are they fought at all?

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1. a restructuring of world order in which any particular war is just one step in a wider, longer term program to establish Elite (now technocratic) control over the Earth, its (remaining) human population and all of its resources,

2. significant (and ultimately substantial) human depopulation (with combatants and civilians on both sides of a war, as well as third party populations, being equally expendable), and

3. greater Elite profits.

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For centuries then, one primary element in the formula for achieving these three outcomes of war has been through Elite control of governments; this is largely achieved through ensuring government indebtedness to the Elite through its ownership and control of the banking system.

And the most effective way to maintain and expand this government indebtedness is to ensure that war is perpetual. Among others, this point has been made by G. Edward Griffin in his classic work The Creature from Jekyll Island in which he carefully explained the five points of what he called ‘The Rothschild Formula’ wherein nations are ongoingly entrapped in a perpetual cycle of paying for war through debt, noting also that ‘it may be necessary to finance both sides of the conflict’. Thus, while always proclaiming the virtues of peace, ‘the unspoken objective is perpetual war’. See The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve 5^th ed. pp. 217-234.

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Historical Analysis of the Global Elite: Ransacking the World Economy Until ‘You’ll Own Nothing.’

In this way, the maximum number of people (soldiers and civilians) are killed (whether by weapons or by the ‘spin-off’ impacts of them, including the starvation of third-party populations), the remainder are put under more direct (and, more recently, technocratic) control and profits are maximized through weapons sales, improved access to key resources (particularly land, energy and minerals) and rebuilding destroyed infrastructure that, these days, is increasingly technocratized during rebuilding. On the latter point, see ‘Like Halliburton in Iraq, BlackRock to Rake in a Trillion Rebuilding the Destruction They Financed in Ukraine’.

War for Technocracy

But times have changed. And while none of the fundamental objectives of war has changed, the manner in which these objectives are achieved has evolved as technological advances create new possibilities for killing and control, some of them more obscure than others. In essence, these include new ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, reconnaissance) capacities, new weapons systems and new targets.

And while many of these technologies may be ‘battle-tested’ on a military battlefield (such as Ukraine or Iran) or during a genocide such as that being conducted against the Palestinians – see, for example, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World – they are ultimately intended (and already deployed in many contexts) for use against the vast bulk of the human population; that is, us.

Beyond the killing of many of us, control of the remainder is the intention.

According to Peter Thiel, one of the founders of Palantir, the technology company building significant elements of the technocracy:

The initial founding vision was that we were going to use technology to change the whole world and basically overturn the monetary system of the world… We could never win an election on getting certain things because we were in such a small minority, but maybe you could unilateral[ly] change the world without having to constantly convince people

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See ‘Peter Thiel: The Billionaire Buying the End of Democracy’.

Among others, when analyst Iain Davis studied the ideology behind the Elite plan his conclusion was simple: ‘This vice-like behavioural control of populations is at the heart of Praxian ideology.’ See ‘The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1’.

To reiterate then: In this context, control means that the Elite plans to kill off many of us and impose technocratic rule on the remaining human population, most of whom will be transhumanized. For a fine, detailed elaboration of the Elite plan, see Patrick Wood’s The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism.

And Wood’s ‘Technocracy News & Trends’ is the authoritative source keeping track of developments in relation to technocracy and transhumanism.

ISTAR & other Technological Capacities

Many advances in ISTAR capacities have been made possible by the deployment of 5G (and soon 6G), and while there is no doubt that this substantially enhances the military capacity to perform many intelligence, surveillance and other functions – for one discussion, see ‘How the 5G network could benefit the military’ – it is also the case that this technology is being used to vastly expand Elite control over the human population generally.

In essence, because the plan is to imprison those left alive as slaves in a technocratic ‘smart city’, the deployment of 5G is enabling a combination of technologies that allow comprehensive (not just mass) surveillance, digitization of our identity and money, as well as robotization of the workforce, policing and the military; geofencing to confine us within the few kilometres between our allocated sleeping quarters and workplace; measures to restructure the global economy in favour of the mega-corporations and consolidation of ownership and control of agricultural land as well as the production, distribution and even nature of the world’s food supply (which will have you eating synthesized, food-like substances that are largely devoid of nutrition). It also includes the power to control the narrative by using government and corporate media and social media to promote Elite propaganda while censoring the truth.

How will this be achieved? Obviously, mainly using technology: Using computers, drones, smart phones, GPS devices, smart TVs and other household devices, social media, smart meters, surveillance cameras, facial recognition software, online banking, license plate readers and driverless cars, you will live under constant surveillance and be readily controlled whether in your sleeping quarters, car or out in the community. And you will be photographed many times each day. Your DNA will not be your own, your internet access will be monitored and controlled; and like everything, your access will depend on your compliance with elite directives.

Combined with economic measures, particularly including changes to banking, a financial transaction control grid is being created: cash is being eliminated and we will be forced to use digital payments using programmable Central Bank Digital Currencies.

As mentioned, all of these technologies are largely dependent on 5G for optimal functioning. When combined, they will be able to digitize our identity and connect it with our bank, health, legal and other records to create a social credit score that will determine what we can and cannot do and where we can do it.

In short, we will be locked in a technological prison, whether it is our sleeping quarters, our car or our local community, in a ‘smart city’. Physical prisons will no longer matter because everywhere will be the prison.

But even if the control over your life that you will lose doesn’t concern you, this article will explain another reason to resist 5G: ‘Deadly Rainbow: Will 5g Precipitate The Extinction Of All Life On Earth?’

New Weapons Systems

Given the highly militarized world in which we live, substantial research and development budgets ensure the routine production of new and, usually, superior weapons systems. While all of these, when they become public, are usually ‘justified’ by the usual propaganda – they are ‘imperative for national defense’ – the reality is that they can and will be used against civilians.

Remember the atomic weapons dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Out of the hundreds of thousands killed or injured in those blasts, how many were soldiers? Was the fire-bombing of Dresden during World War II intended to kill combatants?

Nothing has changed since World War II and international treaties that supposedly protect civilians in wartime are meaningless.

The Elite still has you in its sights.

Here’s a sample of new (or old but well concealed) weapons systems:

Image: Tux, the mascot of Linux, created by Larry Ewing (CC0)

1. Computer systems make possible cyber attacks on ‘enemy’ command, control and communications facilities thus disrupting civilian or military operations. See ‘Britain is “at war every day” due to constant cyber attacks, Chief of the Defence Staff says’.

But it is not just Britain that is ‘at war’: so are you. And unless you are using a Linux program to run your computer (and Graphene OS for your phone) and boycotting all corporate software programs (including in relation to email, social media, internet searching, video watching and communications), to defend your online privacy, you are simply surrendering all of the data the Elite needs to enslave or kill you some time in the next few years.

2. Advances in the use of satellite-based technologies are rapidly expanding the capacity for widespread lethality.

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3. Geoengineering weapons (such as directed energy weapons) can be used to destroy a civilian target as the Twin Towers were on 9/11 in 2001 – see Where Did the Towers Go? Evidence of Directed Free-Energy Technology on 9/11 and 9/11 Enemies: Foreign and Domestic – and in Maui in 2023 to conceal a purpose in accord with Elite design. See ‘Telltale Evidence That Lahaina Was Destroyed By Directed Energy Weapons’.

But there is a range of geoengineering weapons available and these are being deployed regularly, particularly in recent years, against civilian populations and infrastructure, consistent with the Elite plan. See, for example, Geoengineered Transhumanism: How the Environment Has Been Weaponized by Chemicals, Electromagnetism & Nanotechnology for Synthetic Biology, Global WAR-NING: Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity and ‘Whoever Is In Charge Of Geoengineering Operations Needs To Be Prosecuted For Crimes Against Humanity And Our Biosphere’.

4. New weapons of devastating speed and/or destructive power are being deployed at least one of which can destroy entire countries. For just two of his analyses of weapons systems, see Drago Bosnic’s articles ‘Why Russia finally confirmed – RS-28 “Sarmat” has unlimited range?’ and ‘Kiev regime still trying to denigrate “Zircon”, claims it’s “ballistic” missile’.

Of course, whether a nuclear weapon or a weapon such as the RS-28 Sarmat is used, as with all of the weapons mentioned here, clearly there can be no distinction between combatants and civilians, even if this issue is ever considered, which is unlikely.

5. There is a new range of AI-based weaponry, including ‘autonomous’ weaponry, enabling an entire generation of weapons systems perhaps, most notably ‘AI digital kill chains’. These were discussed by Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp in 2023. Watch ‘CEO Alex Karp discusses how Palantir is making AI digital kill chains operational across the globe’.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/fighting-world-war-iii-you-target/5934421