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"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

On paper Guantanamo is 45 square miles, but most of that is water. They could run out of space really fast. It could get really ugly and that is before hurricane season.