Jeb Bush, whose political career vanished during debates with Donald Trump in 2015-2016, is now warning that Iran has stationed a fleet of Kamikaze drones in Cuba. This development comes on the heels of a warning from Israel that Iran has hatched new plots to assassinate President Trump.
Another interesting twist to all this is that yesterday, when Trump was scheduled to depart Turkey after the NATO Summit, the Secret Service had him fly home in the old Air Force One. The new Qatari-gifted Trumpcraft was deemed too penetrable to foreign attacks when compared to its predecessor. Was this decision borne of the news out of Israel?
The fleet of drones in Cuba could well serve both nations’ interests. Iran, of course, has lost its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, due to Trump-sanctioned air bombardment. And Cuba is currently suffering not only an ongoing nationwide blackout, but also severe deprivation, because of Trump’s ordered sanctioning of gasoline supplies to the island nation.
At an event called United Against Nuclear Iran, Bush said Cuba has 300 Shahed drones, which can be loaded with up to 110 pounds of explosives and fly 1,500 miles. Cuba, of course, is just 90 miles from Florida, where Trump has a home.
“I think it’s important to recognize that Iran has consistently been working with Cuba, Venezuela before the departure of Maduro from the regime, creating instability not just in Cuba, but certainly in the region,” Bush said. In assessing the threat posed by these drones, he said, “Most loss of life of the US military than any single weapon that exists over the last 15 years.”
These suicide drones could also be stationed as a weapon to be used against any military advance Trump might make on the Caribbean nation. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has vowed “impregnable resistance” against the U.S., and this might be what he was referring to.
