Cuba warns of 'bloodbath' if US attacks; Washington adds sanctions

HAVANA — Cuba's leader warned Monday of a "bloodbath" in the event of an American attack, while the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Cuba's main intelligence agency and top leaders as tensions spiked between the arch-foes. President Miguel Diaz-Canel stressed Cuba's right to defend itself a day after U.S. news site Axios reported that Havana had obtained over 300 military drones from Russia and Iran and is mulling using them against U.S. targets. The report, which quoted U.S. intelligence officials, came amid growing speculation that the United States is weighing military action to topple Cuba's communist government. Axios quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that Havana was considering drone strikes on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba, on U.S. military vessels and possibly even Florida. Writing on X, Diaz-Canel repeated that Cuba "poses no threat" to the United States or any other country and warned that a U.S. attack would "trigger a bloodbath with incalculable consequences." He did not directly address Cuba's alleged stockpiling of attack drones but said the island had "the

Original source: Korea Times