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The State Department has released a report that labels Cuba as the \u201cideological capital\u201d of left-wing politics in a document seemingly imitating Cold War politics published amid the Trump administration\u2019s fascistic crackdown on the left.<\/p>\n

The 99-page report is entitled \u201cCuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.\u201d It argues that, since the rise of Fidel Castro and left-wing revolutionary thought in the Caribbean country in the 1950s and \u201860s, the country\u2019s brand of left-wing politics \u201cnow enjoys something approaching ideological hegemony both within and beyond the West.\u201d Though Cuba itself is a \u201cfailed state,\u201d the report says, its political project has still spread to the point of threatening \u201cWestern civilization itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ultimate goal for the small island state is \u201cconquering the neighboring United States,\u201d the report asserts. \u201cSince 1959, Cuba has been \u2014 and without fundamental, radical reforms, will always be \u2014 less a nation-state than an all-encompassing intelligence and subversion operation, focused around its existential revolution against the United States,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n

In reality, the report comes as the U.S. is seemingly preparing for an invasion of or assault on Cuba. For months, President Donald Trump has threatened that Cuba is \u201cnext\u201d on the U.S. military\u2019s hitlist. And CBS<\/em> reported last week that Pentagon officials have been preparing a \u201crange of options\u201d including an air assault of the country \u2014 which is already on the brink after the Trump administration\u2019s months-long total oil blockade has caused wave after wave of nationwide blackouts.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the report hits on two of the Trump administration\u2019s goals: the vilification of Cuba ahead of potential military action against the country, as well as the creation of a myth of an organized and violent left that is prepared to destroy the U.S., as administration officials kickstarted last week.<\/p>\n

The sprawling document names numerous American left-wing groups, some of which have not been active or prominent in decades, as \u201cfront groups and fellow travelers\u201d of Cuba. <\/p>\n

This includes groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), National Lawyers Guild, Code Pink, and Cuba solidarity groups The Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples and the National Network on Cuba. The document also ties racial solidarity movements with Cuba, flimsily insinuating that Cuba is the driving force behind much of the Black Lives Matter movement and pro-immigrant, anti-ICE movements.<\/p>\n

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The report cites \u201cexamples\u201d that are often just symbolic declarations of support for the Cuban people, taking them to improbable logical extremes. <\/p>\n

DSA, for instance, isn\u2019t under any control of the Cuban government, the report says. Yet, it is still a major part of the \u201cCuban influence operation,\u201d the State Department claims, solely because its members espouse left-wing ideals and have expressed solidarity with the population of Cuba amid the U.S.\u2019s sanctions regime on the country.<\/p>\n

State Department officials also call out individual Americans who have expressed opposition to the U.S.\u2019s policies on Cuba or otherwise participated in the Cuba solidarity movement, including prominent figures like Hasan Piker, Zohran Mamdani, Chris Smalls, Irsa Hirsi, and Amy Goodman.<\/p>\n

The report does not discuss the U.S.\u2019s decades of meddling and suppression of Cuba\u2019s government. In that context, the report only brings up left-wing groups\u2019 condemnation of the failed Bay of Pigs operation and the sanctions regime as supposed proof that they are controlled by Cuba \u2014 rather than motivated by credible human rights concerns such as those raised by the United Nations. <\/p>\n

The document is reminiscent of Cold War-era assessments and propaganda against the Soviet Union and other countries vilified by the U.S. at the time, even quoting Cold War-era reports on the supposed threat of \u201cCommunist subversion\u201d \u2014 a key difference being that the Soviet Union was actually taking substantial action to back political movements in other countries.<\/p>\n

At the time, President Harry S. Truman reoriented U.S. foreign policy toward combating the growing influence of the Soviet Union and China, and spoke of the need for the U.S. to combat such \u201caggression.\u201d This spiraled into decades of proxy wars ranging across the world, from Cuba to Afghanistan to Korea to Vietnam, as well as the McCarthyist campaign to silence and imprison left-wing dissidents at home.<\/p>\n

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