by Jacob G. Hornberger

May 27, 2026

There is a principle in the law that one must have “standing” before bringing a legal action against someone else. If the person lacks standing, his case is disallowed.

In the build-up to one of its patented regime-change operations, the U.S. government, especially the national-security branch of the government, has accused Cuba’s government of being a supporter of terrorism.

That’s rich, especially given that the U.S. government has long been — and continues to be — one of the biggest supporters of terrorism against Cuba. Given such, the U.S. government clearly lacks moral standing to complain about any supposed support of terrorism by the Cuban government.

Let’s recall some of the U.S. national-security establishment’s acts of terrorism against Cuba.

1. The CIA’s invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. There is no question but that the U.S. government was the aggressor against Cuba with respect to that invasion. Cuba had never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. During the CIA’s invasion, not only were CIA invaders killed or captured, there were also Cuban soldiers who were killed. The U.S. government had no legal or moral authority to kill those Cuban citizens.

What was the CIA’s rationale for its unprovoked act of aggression against Cuba? It maintained that Cuba’s communist-socialist regime constituted a threat to U.S. “national security.” That, of course, was a ridiculous rationale but it formed the core element in the U.S. Cold War racket, when U.S. officials were claiming breathlessly that the Reds were everywhere and coming to get us. Of course, it was all just a way to justify the conversion of the U.S. government to a national-security state with omnipotent, totalitarian-like powers, including the dark-side power of assassination.

2. The CIA conspired with the Mafia, one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations, to assassinate — that is, murder — Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Again, Cuba had never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. The CIA had no legal or moral authority to murder an official of a foreign government.

In fact, the U.S. government just indicted former Cuban leader Raul Castro for murder arising out of the 1996 shoot-down of a plane in which anti-Castro Cuban exiles were killed. He’s 94 years old. Given such, what would be wrong with investigating whether any of the CIA officials involved in the conspiracy with the Mafia to murder Fidel Castro are still alive and, if so, indicting them as well?

3. Operation Northwoods, the top-secret proposal by the Pentagon to engage in a false-flag operation that would kill American citizens under the fraudulent guise of Cubans attacking the United States. The purpose of the proposal would have been to give President Kennedy a false and fraudulent excuse for launching a full-scale military attack and invasion of Cuba in order to achieve regime change.

4. Operation Mongoose, a secret Pentagon and CIA plan to commit acts of terrorism against Cuban enterprises.

5. The CIA bombings of Cuban hotels and killing innocent people in the process.

6. The terrorist bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner by a “former” CIA operative named Luis Posada Carriles, killing everyone aboard, including the members of Cuba’s fencing team.

7. A decades-old, ongoing Cold War and post-Cold War economic embargo that has targeted the Cuban civilian population with death by starvation and illness as a way to achieve regime change.

8. A current oil blockade on Cuba that targets the Cuban civilian population with death by starvation and illness as a way to achieve regime change.

The Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, all three of whom have been obsessed with Cuba for more than 60 years, justify their acts of terrorism by saying that Cuba’s communist regime still poses a great threat to U.S. “national security,” notwithstanding the fact that Cuba, an extremely impoverished and hollowed-out Third World Country, has never invaded and tried to conquer the United States or even threatened to do so.

Moreover, let’s not forget that the U.S. has long had normal relations with North Vietnam, which killed more than 56,000 American citizens who the Pentagon and the CIA sacrificed in the Vietnam War under the false and fake rubric that it was better to stop the Reds over there before they came to get us over here.

Additionally, it’s worth pointing out that the U.S. government is now partnering with a socialist-communist, narco-terrorist regime in Venezuela.

In the long, sordid history of U.S. aggression toward Cuba, there is one thing that is indisputable: The U.S. government lacks moral standing to accuse Cuba of being a supporter of terrorism.