Trump Comments On Cuba Following Maduro Raid
President Donald Trump’s stunning remarks aboard Air Force One have added a new and volatile dimension to the geopolitical fallout following the U.S. operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. With his characteristic bluntness, Trump declared late Sunday that “Cuba is ready to fall,” asserting that the island regime’s lifeline — its strategic and economic dependence on Venezuela — has been decisively severed.
The implications of this moment are enormous.
Maduro’s takedown, executed in a high-risk U.S. operation that reportedly left dozens of Cuban operatives dead, has reverberated across Latin America. Havana, long accused of pulling the strings behind Maduro’s rule, is now left dangerously exposed.
According to U.S. intelligence, it wasn’t Venezuelan security services who protected Maduro — it was Cubans, embedded deeply within the very core of Caracas’s government, managing internal intelligence and ensuring the dictator’s personal safety.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s confirmation of this Cuban presence was stark: “He had Cuban bodyguards.” That simple fact reframes the crisis. The U.S. operation didn’t just hit Venezuela — it struck directly at the Cuban regime’s global network of influence.
Trump’s messaging is both strategic and symbolic. When asked if military action was on the table for Cuba, his response was chilling in its certainty: “I think it’s just going to fall.” No bravado. No escalation. Just a blunt assessment that the dominos are already collapsing.
His confidence, rooted in a cold calculus of regional destabilization, signals a turning point in American foreign policy — and a dramatic reassertion of U.S. hemispheric power under the Monroe Doctrine.
Cuba, for its part, has confirmed the loss of 32 military and police officers — a rare admission from a regime that thrives on secrecy and control. National mourning has been declared, but the deeper sense is one of political vulnerability. A cornerstone of the anti-American alliance in the Americas has just been shaken to its foundation.
Trump didn’t stop there. He leveled harsh accusations at Colombia, accusing its leadership of enabling cocaine production and trafficking into the U.S., and warned of imminent action against narco-networks. In a flashback to his earlier foreign policy provocations, he even revived his interest in Greenland — this time not as a real estate curiosity, but as a strategic bulwark against Russian and Chinese incursions in the Arctic.
If Maduro’s fall was the first move, Trump has now made it clear — the game is far from over.