{"id":73857,"date":"2026-05-22T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/rubio-doubtful-of-diplomacy-with-cuba-as-trump-renews-threat-of-military-action\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:00:21","slug":"rubio-doubtful-of-diplomacy-with-cuba-as-trump-renews-threat-of-military-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/rubio-doubtful-of-diplomacy-with-cuba-as-trump-renews-threat-of-military-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio doubtful of diplomacy with Cuba as Trump renews threat of military action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state says president would like a negotiated agreement with Havana but likelihood \u2018is not high\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US president, Donald Trump, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Thursday again raised the spectre of military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the island\u2019s former leader, Ra\u00fal Castro.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said previous US presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that \u201cit looks like I\u2019ll be the one that does it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/22\/marco-rubio-doubtful-diplomacy-cuba-trump-renews-threat-military-action\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state says president would like a negotiated agreement with Havana but likelihood \u2018is not high\u2019 The US president, Donald Trump, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Thursday again raised the spectre of military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced &#8230; <a title=\"Rubio doubtful of diplomacy with Cuba as Trump renews threat of military action\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/rubio-doubtful-of-diplomacy-with-cuba-as-trump-renews-threat-of-military-action\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rubio doubtful of diplomacy with Cuba as Trump renews threat of military action\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}