Trump hurls ominous threat toward neighboring country: 'Before it is too late'

President Donald Trump issued an ominous threat Sunday to Cuba, warning that if they don’t “make a deal” favorable to the United States – and soon – it will be “too late” for the Caribbean nation.

“Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘Security Services’ for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last weeks U.S.A. attack, and Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years. Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will. THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”

Trump’s threat comes in the wake of the U.S. attack and takeover of Venezuela, and amid growing cheers from Republicans for the Cuban government to be toppled.

While increasing in intensity the past few weeks, calls from American lawmakers and leaders for the toppling of the Cuban government are not new, with the United States having sought to cripple the Caribbean nation since 1959 after Cuban revolutionaries ousted the Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed dictator who transformed the Caribbean nation into what experts have called a “virtual slave state at the behest of American companies.

The United States has attempted to assassinate Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro countless times, and has maintained a decades-long embargo on the nation in the hopes of toppling its government. To date, however, all efforts to enact regime change in Cuba have failed.