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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hasn’t the US set the precedent that this is ok?

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was inside Cuban territorial waters, so it's pretty much always been this way.

Also, they fired on a police boat.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 3 months ago

I hope Cuba doesn't release them. Cause you know they will be immediately pardoned and made rich. Their dead friends forgotten. As they will be in a month or two. It'll be the typical press tour. Big companies with get a talk, these guys will be shown to be dumb as shit, they will migrate into FOX, then finally to own/blaze. They'll make a few million dollars and disappear into obscurity before oding like they should've done two days ago!

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 68 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Should have said there were definitely drugs on the boat.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Guaranteed everyone on board was zooted to the gills, thinking they could do Bay of Pigs on Impossible difficulty.

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

America fucking LOVES pushing and pushing and pushing a countries boundaries, taking more, seeing what they can get away with, how much they can take. Then, when the soverign nation reacts, as any other country would/should "THEYRE KILLING AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!!". The flag is false but the terrorism is now justified

True. Same technique Israel and Russia are using actually

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

good. they were probably muling drugs.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Definitely in their veins.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sorry, are we not blowing up civilian boats now?
~ Cuba

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

several incidents of this kind have been reported, including two in 2022. In one case, a speedboat coming from the United States fired on Cuban Border Guard forces near Villa Clara, injuring a Cuban officer.

The other incident took place in Bahía Honda, in western Cuba, when a vessel also coming from the United States collided with an Interior Ministry patrol boat, causing the U.S. craft to sink and killing several of its occupants.

Authorities on the island frequently report finding abandoned or seized speedboats along the northern coast (Ciego de Ávila, Villa Clara, Havana), commonly used to pick up potential migrants. They describe these operations as “territorial violations and human trafficking.”

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago
[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

No governments are fans of coyotes, FYI.

[–] Daggity@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

No surprise when Rubio is so set to kidnap their leaders like we just did to Maduro. Tensions and watching are going to be high.

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If people want to leave Cuba, the Cuban government ought to let them go. This should be a national policy.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 3 months ago

Cuba isn't North Korea. Most Cubans are just too poor to leave.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And then be "illegals" in the US and get deported back to Cuba by ice after spending a year is a detention camp and all the horror that entails?

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Every country should let their citizens leave and every country should welcome refugees.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Completely open borders? That's almost like...imagine there's no countries... 🎶

(Not making fun or disagreeing with you)

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm for completely open borders, but accepting refugees isn't the same as open borders.

It's something the right have tried to conflate, but accepting refugees is the bare minimum and separate from accepting economic migrants, student, buisness visas, etc.

I do think immigration policy should basically be passing a background check, but right now I'd be happy with doing the bare minimum as defined by the UN convention on refugees: https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/overview/1951-refugee-convention

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

In a perfect world, there would be no borders, yet here we are

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 3 months ago

Cubans are exempt from most of the deportation laws.