Hours after the United States’ surprise weekend strike against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other senior figures, and just weeks after a covert operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R.S.C, teased that U.S. military operations are not over.
During last night’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” Graham, a vocal and outspoken supporter of U.S. military strikes against Iran, predicted that the communist dictatorship in the island nation of Cuba could be the next military operation
“All I can say is President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do,” he said.
“I’m a big admirer of Ronald Reagan, but I’m here to tell you that Donald Trump, in my opinion, is the gold standard for Republicans, maybe any president, when it comes to foreign policy. Maduro, everybody talked about him. Well, Donald Trump has got him in jail. Cuba is next. They are going to fall. This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered.”
Graham continued, “The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism, is about to collapse. The captain of the ship, the Ayatollah, is stone-cold dead. All those people around him who helped him perpetuate this terrorism — they’re on the run, or they’re dead. Finish the job. We’ve lost three Americans. God bless those Americans who sacrifice for their country. They died in a noble cause.”
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President Trump told reporters in early January while aboard Air Force One that the Cuban regime is “ready to fall” as fallout from Maduro’s capture.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose parents left Cuba for the U.S. during the reign of dictator Fulgencio Batista, said that the Cuban regime should “be concerned” in the wake of Maduro’s capture.
“It’s very similar [to Venezuela] in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba, but we want to also help the people who are forced out of Cuba and living in this country,” Rubio noted shortly after Maduro’s January capture.
Cuba, a close ally of Venezuela, is heavily reliant on oil imports from the South American nation and was of course was a hot button issue during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.
Cuba has been ruled by a communist dictatorship for more than six decades, beginning with former leader Fidel Castro.
Non-partisan watchdog Human Rights Watch said that as of 2024, the Cuban government “continues to repress and punish virtually all forms of dissent and public criticism” amid a severe economic crisis.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel succeeded Raúl Castro as the country’s leader in 2021. Months later, the largest anti-government demonstrations in nearly three decades occurred, amid food and medicine shortages during the pandemic.