MAN-MADE HORRORS ENTHUSIAST

Wikipedia says that Sahed-136 drones have an operational range of 2500 km, Mohajer-6 drones have an operational range of between 200 and 500 km. Also, that the latest Ababil-series drone (Ababil-5) has a range of 40km, but that's less relevant to my point here.

The Trump administration has been threatening Cuba, with several key administration figures such as Marco Rubio being particularly motivated for such for personal reasons. This is likely increasingly tempting for them as they likely want a Quick Victorious War to distract from the disaster that was thinking Iran would be a Quick Victorious War

Iran has shown that the US is suffering badly, at least under Trump and Kegbreath, from Last War Syndrome, not being at all prepared for drone warfare and needing multi-million dollar interceptor missiles to deal with swarms of $40k drones, and are down to a quarter of required interceptor stocks as a result, with replacements still being well off in the future (linked article suggests late this year for live fire tests of new cheaper inteceptors).

The distance from Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida (where Trump spends a large percent of his time, although I'm not finding any articles newer than this time last year for such) to the nearest spot on the Cuban Mainland is less than 450 km

CONCLUSION:

*insert image of a train going full speed ahead towards a bridge that is no longer there*

Louis sees Lestat as this primal force of nature who looks like a romance novel hero, can effortlessly control any room, is "preternaturally charming," impeccably turned out, no one can say no to him for long.

but we get in LESTAT'S head, and suddenly he has scars and a tangled mane of hair, people are constantly talking over him, he sweats, he's getting beat up and his clothes are getting destroyed in a non-sexy way, he's flailing around wildly with NO idea what he's doing, people (lestat included) think he's untalented and annoying.

And LOUIS, well. Louis clearly sees himself as uncanny, reserved, compelling but a little off-putting. He is other: cut-off from humanity, holding his emotions and relationships at arm's length.