Cuba is ready for a potential attack from US amid oil blockade: deputy foreign minister
In response to Trump’s threat to take over the Caribbean island, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said: ‘We would be naive if we do not prepare’
Cuba is prepared for the unlikely possibility of a military engagement with the United States, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said over the weekend in response to US President Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Caribbean island nation.
“Our country has historically been ready to mobilise as a nation as a whole for military aggression … We don’t believe it is something that is probable but we would be naive if we do not prepare,” de Cossio told NBC’s Meet the Press in remarks broadcast on Sunday.
“We don’t see why it would have to occur and we find no justification whatsoever.”
De Cossio also said any suggestion of the nature, the structure, or members of the Cuban government being subject to negotiation in talks with the US is untrue.
He added a regime change is “absolutely” off the table in discussions with the United States.