I can’t tell you what’s been making some US diplomats feel sick while abroad (or even if there is one underlying cause for the clusters of illnesses, as opposed to unrelated outbreaks and incidents). What I can tell you is that the narrative that the US government is trying to push in the media about it is batshit insane.
Their argument is: the Cuban government has secretly developed highly-advanced sonic weaponry, and also successfully managed to use them on US diplomats in the middle of a thaw in which they were trying to improve relations. For this to be true:
Cuba would have to have one of the most advanced militaries in the world (they do not)
The Cuban military would have to be experienced in utilizing hypersonic weapons without detection (zero evidence of them doing anything even kinda like this before)
The Cuban government would have to be objectively stupid: immediately after successfully opening negotiations with the US after decades of trying, their plan is to secretly attack the US with some James Bond bullshit (no living creature is this stupid)
There is not one single part of this narrative that makes the least amount of sense. The alternative hypothesis I’ve seen them shopping to some media outlets is that it was actually Russian diplomats in Cuba secretly doing the attacks on US diplomats in order to disrupt US-Cuban negotiations, but that would be a historically risky move to accomplish what is at most a minor geopolitical balancing priority of the Russian government. It’s one thing to poison a dissident, it’s another thing entirely to set up military infrastructure in a foreign country and secretly fire noise weapons at US government officials.
I don’t know what the truth is, but I’m fully confident that it isn’t the story they’re giving us
My favorite thing about Havana Syndrome is the people who said it felt like they were shot with an energy beam. Yeah man I definitely also could recognize that feeling
I mean, have you ever had someone shine a powerful light on you and your skin got hot where it hit? That was, in fact, the feeling of being hit with an energy beam.
(Also it might not technically count but think of the stream of water coming out of a jet underwater in a pool. That’s a thing you can feel!)
