Byproduct.
Everyone knows that Russia has traditionally wanted warm water ports and to extend their influence into the Middle East in a major way, stopping that now may not be possible.
If that were true, why does Russia not have a warm water port in Cuba?
What would you recommend as the U.S. response?
See post #43.
I did see your #43 (please see my #53 lol)
I understand your approach here and under a different administration, and a president that acts in OUR national interest, that approach would certainly be valid.
On the whole warm water port issue, I believe it is the desire for a *Mediterranean* port that they have been seeking. Using Cuba’s facilities might be nice for vacationing Russian Navy personnel, but so far as force projection, even Moscow knows that the Caribbean is an American lake.