The state department under Rex Tillerson is expelling 16 Cuban diplomats in retaliation for supposed attacks on American personnel in Cuba, although few believe the Cubans are behind the attacks. The Cubans have nothing to gain and much to lose by such attacks, and Cuban authorities have been cooperating with the FBI.
Are these attacks real? One main theory is that someone has assaulted Americans from a distance with sonic waves, something scientists say is not physically possible. In this administration, science is part of a liberal conspiracy called fact-based reality, and it doesn’t count.
Is some other kind of attack going on? I have no idea, but we seem sure that the Cubans are not attacking. Their crime is a failure to defend our diplomats against an attack we can’t define. Also Republican hacks in Washington hope to reject Cuba. (Many Republican business leaders see Cuba as an interesting market.)
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