Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the country is preparing for the “possibility of military aggression.”
“Our military is always prepared and, in fact it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” he said. “We would be naive, looking at what’s happening around the world, if we did not do that.”
“We truly hope that there’s no military action and, frankly, we see no reason – we see no justification for military action against Cuba,” he added. “Cuba is a peaceful country. We’re not an enemy of the United States, we don’t pose any threat to the United States. In fact, we said it openly, we would like to have a friendly and respectful relationship with the United States.”
The comments follow Cuba’s communist leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, vowing to resist U.S. pressure on the country, declaring that it will be met with “impregnable resistance” if it tries to threaten Cuba.
“The US publicly threatens #Cuba, almost daily, with overthrowing the constitutional order by force. And it uses an outrageous pretext: the harsh limitations of the weakened economy that they have attacked and sought to isolate for more than six decades,” he wrote on X. “They intend and announce plans to seize the country, its resources, its properties, and even the very economy they seek to strangle to make us surrender.”
“Only in this way can the fierce economic war be explained, which is applied as collective punishment against the entire people. In the face of the worst scenario, #Cuba is accompanied by a certainty: any external aggressor will clash with an impregnable resistance.”
