{"id":94138,"date":"2026-05-21T06:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/will-trump-strike-cuba-crypto-prediction-market-raises-odds-to-almost-50-as-uss-nimitz-deployed-in-the-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:18:02","slug":"will-trump-strike-cuba-crypto-prediction-market-raises-odds-to-almost-50-as-uss-nimitz-deployed-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=94138","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump Strike Cuba? Crypto Prediction Market Raises Odds To Almost 50% As USS Nimitz Deployed In The Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency punters pushed odds of the U.S. launching a military campaign against Cuba to nearly 50% amid rising tensions with the island nation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aerial Strike Likely?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Polygon <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"POL\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/POL-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">POL<\/a>)-based <strong>Polymarket<\/strong> assigned <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/us-strike-on-cuba-by\">49%<\/a>\u00a0probability to the U.S. initiating a drone, missile, or air strike on Cuba before the year-end, up from 15% over the month and 5% over the week.<\/p>\n<p>The market has attracted significant attention, with $4.34 million already wagered on the outcome as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>Actions limited to artillery fire, small arms engagements, ground incursions, naval shelling or cyberattacks will not qualify for resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, bettors are pricing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/will-the-us-invade-cuba-in-2026\">25%<\/a> chance that the U.S. will launch a military offensive to seize control of any part of Cuban territory before Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bz-read-next-block\"><\/div>\n<p>     data-variant=&#8221;card&#8221;<br \/>\n     &#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency punters pushed odds of the U.S. launching a military campaign against Cuba to nearly 50% amid rising tensions with the island nation. Aerial Strike Likely? Polygon (CRYPTO: POL)-based Polymarket assigned 49%\u00a0probability to the U.S. initiating a drone, missile, or air strike on Cuba before the year-end, up from 15% over the month and 5% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-94138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}