A new intelligence assessment reported by Newsmax reveals that the U.S. military is increasingly alarmed about a growing drone threat emerging from Cuba — just 90 miles from the Florida coastline. Apparently while we've been arguing about pronouns and funding Ukraine's border, an actual threat has been quietly developing within spitting distance of Miami.

The Cuban Missile Crisis called. It wants its proximity anxiety back.

According to the report published May 17, the threat represents an entirely new vector of concern for homeland defense. We're not talking about some theoretical future problem that might materialize in a decade. We're talking about hostile drone capability 90 miles from American soil — close enough that a decent fishing boat could make the trip in a few hours.

Let that distance sink in. Ninety miles. That's shorter than most people's daily commute in Los Angeles. That's less than the distance from Washington, D.C. to Richmond. And somewhere across that tiny stretch of water, a hostile regime that has been aligned against American interests for over six decades is apparently developing drone capabilities that have the Pentagon losing sleep.

The U.S. military's concern centers on the fact that drones represent an asymmetric threat — cheap to produce, difficult to detect, and capable of reaching American territory from Cuba in minutes, not hours. We spent $877 billion on defense last year, and a communist island nation stuck in 1962 might have found the cheat code with a fleet of drones that cost less than a used Honda Civic.

Here's the part that should make every Floridian furious: how long has this been developing while nobody said a word? Cuba doesn't exactly have a thriving domestic tech industry. Which means someone is supplying them — and the list of suspects who'd love to park offensive capabilities 90 miles from Florida is short and terrifying. China. Russia. Iran. Take your pick.

The Biden administration spent four years doing absolutely nothing about Cuba except relaxing sanctions and sending good vibes. While they were busy restoring diplomatic niceties with a regime that jails journalists and tortures dissidents, apparently that regime was quietly building a drone program pointed at the United States.

We have military bases all over the world. We have carrier groups patrolling every ocean. We have Space Force watching satellites. But 90 miles south of Key West, a new threat vector has been growing — and the American public is just now finding out about it.

If this doesn't get the same level of urgency as the original Cuban Missile Crisis, something is deeply broken in our national security apparatus. Ninety miles. Your DoorDash driver covers more ground on a slow Tuesday.