Ten Cuban-Americans tried to invade Cuba by boat and overthrow the government — the attempt collapsed within minutes, and the survivors still defend it.

• The plotters were recruited on TikTok by a Florida account posting AI-generated images of a post-communist Cuba.
• They left the Florida Keys in February on two boats loaded with weapons, planning to seize a police station, spark an uprising, and get the US military to step in.
• One boat broke down, the other ran aground, Cuban border guards spotted them, and a short gunfight left five dead and five in custody.
• The US government has said nothing about how armed men trained openly on a Florida farm and sailed off to attack another country without being stopped.
• The whole thing echoes the Bay of Pigs — the same bet that one attack would trigger a popular revolt, with no plan for what came after.

Outlook: With Washington silent and anti-Castro groups in Florida still flush with taxpayer-funded "pro-democracy" money that Marco Rubio protected from cuts, another amateur attempt is likely.