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If this is an attack what’s the point of it. It’s not like it has any useful effects on anything either politically or militarily.
by christkv 5y ago
If this is an attack what’s the point of it. It’s not like it has any useful effects on anything either politically or militarily.
- 2bitencryption 5y ago> what's the point of it the point is probably how every US diplomat around the globe probably goes to sleep every night thinking "I hope I wake up tomorrow with without permanent brain damage"
- sigg3 5y agoAre there any documented cases of permanent brain damage from these "attacks"?
- iends 5y agoYes, that’s literally what the article is about.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoThe news stories alone accomplish that, no need to attack anyone/anyone else.
- phendrenad2 5y agoYou must not read the news much, stories don't stick around long. Something that happened last week might as well not exist.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoPeople don't need to watch Jaws every day to still be afraid of sharks.
- chrisseaton 5y agoNot sure if you're being sarcastic, but the new stories exist because of the attacks. If they didn't do the attack... there wouldn't be any news stories, would there?
- boomboomsubban 5y agoNo, the news stories exist because people have strange symptoms. Even with no attacks the stories could happen.
- chrisseaton 5y agoOk... now think this through. Imagine there were no strange symptoms, and so no stories, and you wanted to create the stories... what would you do to cause the symptoms? The attacks, right? Or are you suggesting a foreign power that wanted to cause fear would just hang around and wait and hope for symptoms to appear out of nowhere?
- boomboomsubban 5y agoPersonally I think that there has never been any foreign power involved in this. That said, there is the possibility that something happened in Havana and now some foreign power is reaping a long running additional "benefit" without ever attacking again.
- chrisseaton 5y agoCausing fear. People probably don't want to be posted to embassies in Havana these days.
- akvadrako 5y agoIf there is an attack and not just hypochondriacs, I would consider it a form of terrorism. The main point is to make your enemies afraid; the physical damage done is a means to an end.
- dctoedt 5y agoNot just terrorism - if it's by a state actor, it's an act of war, a casus belli.
- pengaru 5y ago> It’s not like it has any useful effects on anything either politically or militarily. You genuinely don't think creating paranoia for and generally antagonizing US diplomats is of any potential political or military value? If anything this creates additional stress, and demonstrates the US's total inability to defend itself from such things making it appear weak/incompetent/vulnerable to the entire world, to say the least. Surely you're joking or feigning ignorance here, right?
- totalZero 5y ago(among other things) It weakens recruiting for a diplomatic corps that has already seen its workforce whittled down under the leadership of Tillerson and Pompeo. Slower, lower-quality recruiting could reduce our ability to maintain influence in, and collect information from, key parts of the world. It's no secret that Cuba is an ideological beachhead used by our adversaries to hamper our foreign relations in Latin America.