It doesn't make sense from an Intelligence o Intelligence Gathering point of view. They have cheaper and better ways (like... actual people?), so I don't think that this wasn't some kind of (Cuban) intelligence equipment malfunction. Plus, from the reports it seems that the presumed attacks were taking place on diplomatic personnel residences and hotel rooms. In that environment the attackers do not have much control: what if there's an asset there? what if there's a child?
But what really makes me to think that this was not a Cuban operation or attack, is that Canadian personnel were also reported to be affected. That's a big huge no-no.
Since this whole thing was interesting for me, I have asked several people on their opinions. People from all walks of life and political leanings. Most of them just told me that they did not think it was Cuban behind the attacks, if there were attacks at all. The more cautious just waved off with "We need more information." Not one person, no matter where they stand, thinks we actually did this.
(Sorry for my English.)
could've been any government's agency that had infiltrated cuba.
While the above is pretty far fetched, floor is open for conspiracy theories...
* old cold-war boogeyman
* claims of attacks that leave no physical evidence
* only reported by government officials
If the tables were turned here and the Cubans or Russians were accusing us of a sonic attack we’d be screaming that it’s a disinformation campaign.
I think more likely the state department would just deny it and move on.
I do not follow Cuban politics (and not much Russian), but Russia nowadays are always accusing USA of some evil -- watch the official 1st channel or read gov't radio transcript: planning an overthrow of their government (via supporting this or that NGO), destabilizing an economy, financing a war and killing Russian citizens (Ukraine, Syria), etc. etc.
Much of this is for internal consumption, and generally the reaction in the US from those who can read it and care to is "meh, business as usual". Trying to influence minds, for sure; but this is par for the course for politics.
Our official sources are happy to demur, as they have around claims of sonic attacks - we are still “investigating” and “analyzing data”. We officially keep the claims at arms length.
We’ve figured out that a public-private partnership makes better agitprop.
And yet, there are bad guys. Churchill was a bastard, and no kind of “good guy” yet Hitler and the Nazis were the bad guys. C‘est la vie. Stalin was one of the bad guys, and so was Slobodan Milosovic, and so is Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Pol Pot, etc. Good guy is a tough category to fill, but history is full of inexcusable monsters and we should be careful with our moral relativism.
But I agree with your main point. There is real evil out there and we have a moral prerogative to stop/fight/kill those people.
The USA is hardly spotless, but they have a good reputation of standing up to real evil in the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/mystery-of-son...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uzbekistan-incident-raises-susp...
If this was infact a weapon of sorts, it could of been any foreign government which simply decided Cuba was a good testing grounds.
They have walked back liberalization before. After the collapse of the USSR, which had sent enormous amounts of money to support the Castro regime, Cuba entered a serious economic crisis. Castro instituted a period of market reforms, and there was widespread hope for political opening. But as soon as the economic situation improved sufficiently to keep buying off enough people to run the oppressive apparatus, it was all rolled back.
Please don’t confuse the interests of the Cuban people with the interests of the Cuban regime. The latter cares about one thing only: stay in power.