Raul Castro

My god, does the crazy shit from the fat oaf and his advisors never end?

Now charges are being brought against Raul Castro based on Cuba shooting down two planes illegally in their airspace more than thirty years ago.

The deceased were anti-Castro 'freedom fighters" who were doing recon to help the myriad "boat people" then fleeing, as well as dropping propaganda leaflets in Cuba.

Cuba had warned such incursions would result in being shot down: "Hello, Mcfly?"

Sounds to me like Castro did nothing wrong, and the fat oaf is using this both to distract from his numerous failures and to somehow justify military action against Cuba.

Absolutely stunning in its abject idiocy but hey, that's MAGA...

I have zero knowledge of this event. Is this summary accurate? A military plane was violating cuban airspace and refusing to follow directive to cease and leave?

If this is true, Cuba was within their right to take defensive action. I will have to read more into it, but if your summary is even partially right, my analysis leans in favor of Cuba already.

What happened in 1996?

At about 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, 1996, the three Brothers to the Rescue planes took off from an airport in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Over international waters, outside of Cuban airspace, two of the three unarmed Cessna planes were shot down by the Cuban MiG pilots without any warning, U.S. prosecutors said. The MiG pilots then began following the third plane, which escaped being destroyed, authorities said.

A Cuban official, however, insisted at a United Nations Security Council meeting in late February 1996 that the two planes were violating Cuban airspace when they were shot down and one of the civilian pilots had ignored warnings to not enter that airspace, according to Security Council records. The official also alleged the U.S. took no effective measures to prevent such airspace violations by U.S. pilots, despite warnings from Cuba.

Brothers to the Rescue dates back to 1980, during the unexpected emigration of 125,000 Cubans to the United States. It aimed to help the Cuban refugees in the Florida straits by dropping supplies from small planes and alerting the U.S. Coast Guard during the monthslong crisis.

Interesting. This is a story I honestly don't know much about.

Doing some additional reading, it seems very disputed if the three brothers planes were in cuban airspace or over international waters. The leader of the three brothers was a paid CIA operative. I don't know. Messy. What I do know is it is odd to bring this criminally up now. Makes zero sense.

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Interesting. This is a story I honestly don't know much about.

Doing some additional reading, it seems very disputed if the three brothers planes were in cuban airspace or over international waters. The leader of the three brothers was a paid CIA operative. I don't know. Messy. What I do know is it is odd to bring this criminally up now. Makes zero sense.

Makes sense to Donny and Marco. They want to be the ones to end the current Cuba.

so, we have a choice, to believe the US version or the Cuban one, so Mr. V starts off by giving the Cuban one full credit with no mention of the other one ... until someone forces him to. Of course his self-identity is "I love me the Troll" and such a person is just going to go one way. We'll leave this there, after all it's just established fact that he is a troll, why beat it to death

But for the sake of argument, let's buy the Cuban version. It's OK to just shoot down unarmed planes? 'Did nothing wrong', says Mr. V... Cowardice, said Madeleine Albright at the time.

If we go back to the Korean air liner shot down over sensitive Soviet airspace, would we find Mr V applauded that too? Perhaps, if there was some audience there he could outrage