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1. The Pentagon has spent months positioning the troops and weapons needed for the U.S. to launch a military attack on Cuba — all it needs is a final go-ahead from President Trump. The president has floated an invasion of the island after economic and political pressure failed to topple the Communist government. But the Navy’s built-up presence in the region — the largest in the world outside the Middle East — would allow the U.S. to act immediately. These strategically placed assets set the table for military action, from a capture of Havana’s leadership much like the seizure of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, to a series of precision strikes. And they open the possibility that the U.S. throws itself into the third international conflict of the Trump administration. Cuba is “in a lot of trouble,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday at a full Cabinet meeting. “Having a failed state 90 miles from our shores is a threat to the national security of the United States.” (Source: politico.com)
2. Donald Trump has threatened to “blow up” Oman if it fails to “behave” in a casual aside during a cabinet meeting, as the US scrambles to reopen the strait of Hormuz. The US president made the threat after reports of talks between Iran and Oman about jointly charging a toll for ships passing through the crucial waterway, which has been all but closed since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran. “The strait is going to be open to everybody,” Trump declared on Tuesday. “Nobody’s going to control it. We’re going to watch over it. We’ll watch over it. But nobody’s going to control it. That’s part of the negotiation that we have.” (Source: theguardian.com)
3. American forces conducted what a U.S. official said on Wednesday were self-defense strikes in southern Iran for the second time in three days. The United States knocked down four one-way attack drones that the official said Iran had launched over the Strait of Hormuz, threatening U.S. forces in the region and what little commercial maritime traffic is going through the strait that Iran has effectively blockaded. The military then conducted airstrikes against a drone ground-control station in the port city of Bandar Abbas before Iran could fire a fifth drone, said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. The strikes were the latest of multiple attacks in recent days that have ratcheted up hostilities and threatened a fragile cease-fire, as officials in Washington and Tehran have not indicated that a peace deal was imminent. (Source: nytimes.com)
4. Kuwait said it was targeted with a missile and drone attack earlier today, another challenge to the shaky ceasefire in the Iran war following strikes by both Washington and Tehran. Kuwait’s military made the announcement, without providing further details on what had been targeted. Iran said hours later that it launched an attack in the region, but it did not say exactly what was targeted. Kuwait, a close ally of the U.S., repeatedly came under fire from Iran and Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq during the war. (Source: apnews.com)
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