Not to overstate the obvious, but…
Here, from Axios, is the funniest headline I have read this year, or perhaps ever:
Scoop: US suggests Cuba complicit in helping Russia fight Ukraine.
No, of course, when I say this is the funniest headline of the year, I am not referring to the usual news media illiteracy that has become so commonplace that we barely notice it anymore. For does not “helping Russia” inherently entail being “complicit”? Rather, I am referring to the uproarious idea that the Trump administration, so desperate to justify its latest distraction-by-destruction folly on the high seas, is actually daring to use as its lame argument for a new “regime change” (likely to be as fake as the previous two) the claim that Cuba has (as per Axios) “contributed up to 5,000 fighters for Russia’s war in Ukraine, while also providing ‘diplomatic and political support for Moscow,’ according to an official transmission from the State Department.”
I am sure I do not need to put too fine a point on this for the sentient reader, but seriously, may we all relish this wonderful knee-slapper from the office of Marco Rubio for a moment? There is no government on Earth — not one — that has done more to help Putin’s war effort in Ukraine, while openly and continuously “providing diplomatic and political support for Moscow” over the past fifteen months, than the Trump administration. And yet this very same group of traitors dares to accuse Cuba — weak, pathetic, failed little Cuba — of providing support for Russian aggression!
Is Cuba taking steps to undermine NATO on a daily basis? Issuing public pronouncements offering moral equivalency arguments about the Ukraine war? Regularly denouncing and belittling Ukraine’s president while consistently massaging the ego of Russia’s? Refusing to provide even previously-promised military aid to Ukraine, and then turning any grudging, partial assistance offered into a profiteering racket with the European Union as the middle men? Finding endless excuses to make special exemptions and exceptions to alleviate the burden of global sanctions, not to mention of Trump’s otherwise relentless global tariffs, on the regime of the U.S. president’s Russian idol and role model? Incessantly forcing Ukraine’s hand with demands that she sacrifice large swaths of territory, including territory that is not even currently occupied by the Russian invaders, as the price of any “peace deal”? Assigning envoys to repeatedly deal with their Russian friends and counterparts over the heads or behind the backs of the Ukrainian government?
All this hilarity, even aside from the fact that this new accusation against Cuba comes amid the obvious fact that North Korea, for example, has contributed far more fighters and diplomatic support to Putin’s war than anything Cuba has done or could possibly do, and yet the Trump administration is not issuing ominous warnings against Kim Jong Un’s vastly more dangerous and threatening regime. Not to mention Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian government, which until a few days ago was the only member of the EU and NATO to stand openly on the side of Russia against Ukraine — and which was rewarded for this position by receiving the most vocal electoral support that the Trump thugs have ever offered to any foreign leader. And not to mention China, of course, which trails behind only the Trump administration itself as a pro-Russian actor with superpower clout — and which, to be fair, is probably less committed to Putin’s victory than Trump is, since China is always protecting China’s global interests above anyone else’s, whereas the Trump administration has long since ceded America’s legitimate national interests in this arena to Putin’s illegitimate ones.
Laughing is all we have left, as far as the fight for the survival of America and the era of Western-led liberty is concerned. So we might as well enjoy such chances when they arise.
