Posted on 01/26/2015 11:16:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
The historic U.S.-Cuba talks are under way and they may have attracted a new addition to the Havana port.
The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov CCB-175 parked there Tuesday, laden with high-tech software, radar and 30-millimeter cannon and anti-aircraft guns, replacing a cruise ship that had been there the day before.
Normally, the surveillance ship travels up and down the American Eastern Seaboard in international waters, with its radars pointed in the direction of the United States.
On Tuesday, however, just as the Americans were due to arrive for big talks with Cuban officials—the first such high-level talks held in Cuba since the Carter administration—the ship with reportedly 200 sailors on board was moored. …
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Interesting
FBI cracks Russian Spy Ring: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30992174
I do believe Putin and the Castro brothers have flipped us the bird. Contempt is the most common feeling about Obama it seems, both domestically and internationally.
CC
When it comes to hate Russians do not care who is in the White House. They just hate America. Sadly in their ideology Russians nowadays are just a step away from jihadists and it is a sidestep not a step above.
30-millimeter qualifies as a cannon? Writer ignorance or what?
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