Military Expert: Drones and Spy Bases in Cuba Are U.S.-Created Pretexts
May 27, 2026
The U.S. government is manufacturing a pretext to attack Cuba, affirmed Hal Klepak, professor emeritus of Latin American and other strategic studies in military history at the Royal Military College of Canada.
“The issue of Cuba being a threat can only be seen as a pretext to prepare U.S. opinion, or at the very least, the MAGA base, for accepting an intervention” said Klepak. “The idea that the Cubans would choose this moment to attack the United States is an absurd assertion.”
According to Klepak, Cuba’s military has a defensive posture and would not attack the United States.
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"The idea that the Cubans would choose this moment to attack the United States, it's an absurd assertion," said Hal Klepak, military historian and former NATO analyst.
"The only attack we can imagine is a counterattack to one launched by the United States against Cuba," he said.
"The defense posture of Cuba in the War of All the People, this is an exclusively defensive posture. It's not aimed at conquest," Klepak added.
"The issue of Cuba being a threat in general, and of course, the idea of Chinese or Russian or whoever's spy bases, even Iran's, and close cooperation with those countries against the United States and against U.S. interests, they are and can only be seen as pretexts for two purposes," the military historian said.
"One: to prepare United States' opinion, which is not necessarily in favor, at least the MAGA base, could be prepared for accepting such an intervention and living with it," he continued.
"The other one is the sort of thing we've been seeing in the last 16, 17 months, in more than one region of the world. And that is to up the ante in such a way, with such threats of military action against Cuba, that the Cuban government will see it as a situation where it must yield, where it must give way and surrender to United States demands," Klepak concluded.
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