Cuba threatens the US with a "bloodbath" following the new sanctions from the Donald Trump administration.

The regime of Cuba intensified its verbal confrontation with the United States this Sunday by warning that any military intervention on the island would provoke a ''bloodbath''. The threat was pronounced by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla amid growing diplomatic tensions and U.S. intelligence reports about the acquisition of Russian and Iranian military drones by the communist government.

The official's statements came after Axios published information based on U.S. intelligence sources claiming that Havana purchased more than 300 military drones and is evaluating possible scenarios for use against U.S. targets in the Caribbean. Among the concerns mentioned by Washington officials are potential threats to the Guantanamo naval base, U.S. military vessels, and even areas close to Florida.

''Cuba is a peaceful country, but if it is attacked militarily, it will exercise its right to self-defense to the last consequences,'' Rodríguez stated during an interview. He then added that any offensive from Washington would result in ''a bloodbath,'' in one of the most aggressive warnings issued by the Cuban regime in recent years.

The international reaction was swift. Several critical sectors of Castroism interpreted the statements as a new demonstration of the belligerent rhetoric of a regime facing a deep internal crisis that constantly uses confrontation with the United States to divert attention from the economic and social problems plaguing the island.

According to the published information, U.S. officials find the growing military link between Cuba, Russia, and Iran particularly alarming. The possibility of war drone technology being located less than 150 kilometers from U.S. territory raised alarms in Washington.

''When we think about that kind of technology so close, and about malign actors including Iranians, Russians, terrorist groups, and cartels, it is unsettling,'' declared a U.S. official quoted anonymously. ''It is a growing threat,'' he added.

Concerns are further heightened by the presence of Iranian military advisors in Havana and the intelligence cooperation that the Cuban regime has maintained for years with strategic adversaries of the West. Security experts argue that Cuba seeks to re-establish itself as a geopolitical platform for hostile actors against the United States in the Western Hemisphere.

The Cuban Foreign Minister responded by accusing Washington of trying to justify a potential military escalation. He also questioned the presence of the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, one of the regime's historical demands.

''The only foreign military presence in Cuba is the unwanted Guantanamo naval base that the United States usurps from our territory,'' Rodríguez stated.

The statements came just days after the visit to Havana by the CIA director, John Ratcliffe. The head of the U.S. intelligence agency personally conveyed a warning to the Cuban dictatorship and made it clear that the United States would not allow the island to function as a platform for hostile operations driven by Russia or Iran.

''Director Ratcliffe made it clear that Cuba can no longer serve as a platform for adversaries to advance hostile agendas in our hemisphere,'' indicated an intelligence official quoted by the U.S. media.

Meanwhile, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío denounced what he described as a campaign to justify aggression against the island. ''The United States is the aggressor country. Cuba, the attacked country,'' he wrote on social media.

However, critics of the regime argue that the victimization discourse is part of a political strategy used for decades by Castroism to justify internal militarization and political control over the population. Cuba is currently experiencing one of the worst economic crises in its recent history, marked by massive blackouts, fuel shortages, inflation, food scarcity, and record migration.

The administration of Donald Trump is also evaluating new sanctions against Cuban officials and legal measures related to the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996, an episode attributed to the regime of Raúl Castro.

Amid this scenario, the tyranny of Miguel Díaz-Canel faces increasing pressure both inside and outside the island. While the regime hardens its rhetoric against Washington, opposition sectors denounce that the dictatorship continues to deepen military alliances with authoritarian governments while the Cuban population faces economic deterioration, lack of freedoms, and an increasingly severe humanitarian crisis.