Foreign-tied radical groups have a playbook to swarm American military bases and ICE facilities on U.S. soil, and the State Department just confirmed it exists. Ordinary Americans should ask why networks answering to a hostile communist government are allowed to organize, fund, and publish targeting guides for federal installations inside this country — and why it took a 99-page report to get anyone in Washington to notice.

According to a State Department report published Monday, the National Network on Cuba — an umbrella organization that includes the Democratic Socialists of America, Communist Party USA, CODEPINK, and more than 50 other groups — released a "National Rapid Response Plan" last month. The plan calls for "coordinated nationwide actions" outside U.S. military bases, recruitment offices, federal buildings, ICE facilities, and even "sports arenas during high-visibility events" within 24 hours of any "imminent threat" or actual U.S. attack on Cuba. The stated goal: make it "politically and materially costly for the U.S. government to wage war on Cuba."

A State Department official told the New York Post that both domestic law enforcement and counterterrorism agencies "are looking carefully" at what the official called a "very serious and distinct threat," noting that some NNOC member groups "have been involved in violent action in the past."

The report also highlights that a frequent Havana "collaborator," the Black Alliance for Peace, has circulated a "target guide" of 1,335 military or law enforcement facilities across the country. That is not activism. That is reconnaissance.

The timing is not accidental. President Trump has suggested the U.S. military "may stop by" Cuba after dealing with Iran, where the U.S. has now conducted nine consecutive nights of strikes targeting Iran's military infrastructure and its ability to choke off the Strait of Hormuz, as Breitbart reported. The Iran conflict has already spread, with Iranian strikes hitting Syria, Jordan, and Kuwait overnight.

Cuba's influence network, the State Department found, "continues to maintain ties to powerful leftist nonprofits, anti-ICE collectives, socialist groups, and Marxist militant organizations across the United States." The official added that Cuba's hand runs through "leftist nonprofits in New York, anti-ISIS protests, DSA socialist groups … all of the college campus uprisings we've seen in recent years."

The pipeline is decades old. Organizations like Cuba's Venceremos Brigade spent over half a century bringing radical Americans to the island for "political education" in communist revolution. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was among those who took the trip, repeatedly visiting Cuba as a Venceremos organizer in southern California. After Castro's death in 2016, Bass issued a statement sending condolences and remarking on the "great loss to the people of Cuba."

Follow the money: the Treasury Department and Department of Justice are now targeting the funding streams for some of these groups, including CODEPINK. That is a start. But the broader question remains unanswered — why did it take a potential military confrontation with Havana for the federal government to publicly acknowledge a network that has been operating in plain sight for decades, publishing target lists and organizing against border enforcement on American soil?

The Post framed the story as a "bombshell." The real scandal is that it isn't — it is the logical end of bipartisan neglect.