Cuban military is recruiting and training squadron leaders for repression of imminent popular uprising
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1659876304_41426.html
Translated excerpt with translators commentary:
Roberto Álvarez Quiñones reports in Diario de Cuba that the island’s armed forces have begun a very unusual recruitment drive that promises to turn out “instant” lieutenants through a five-month training program.
Doubting that anyone could be trained to assume command of troops in such a short time — since most armies on earth take two to three years to do this — Álvarez Quiñones argues that this is really a program for training leaders of repression brigades.
It’s an aggressive campaign that reeks of panic, and nothing signals that panic more clearly than the fact that the recruits are being offered unusually high salaries, 30 percent higher than that of doctors, and the only educational prerequisite is a high school diploma.
The bottom line is that King Raul and his henchmen fear a popular rebellion is imminent, and they might all end up like Romania’s infamous Nicolae Ceausescu who was deposed by a popular uprising, tried for his crimes, and shot dead by a firing squad along with his wife on Christmas day, 1989 (see image above).
Wouldn’t that be a more fitting ending for the Castro dynasty than Fidel’s slow descent to a peaceful death, blessed by Papa Che?
Everything indicates that Raúl Castro and his main assistant, Miguel Díaz-Canel, are being stalked by the specter of Nicolae Ceausescu and are worried about the same fate as the executed Romanian communist dictator. This is what can be inferred from the order given to the Eastern Army to recruit high school graduates to turn them into lieutenants and captains in just five months.
The unusual military call has been broadcast in Las Tunas by the local radio station Radio Libertad and reported by the independent journalist Alberto Méndez. Young high school graduates up to 24 years of age are being recruited to train as commanding officers of infantry troops and armored forces, including tank squadrons. They are offered a monthly salary of 7,050 pesos ($293.75), or almost 2,000 pesos more than the salary of 5,060 pesos ($210) for a resident doctor.
To begin with, it is not possible to train a captain or lieutenant in the infantry or armored forces for professional military purposes in 140 days. The officers in command of troops and tanks in all parts of the world, and in Cuba itself, are graduates of military academies in courses lasting two to three years (never five months), or from universities that students already have access to. graduates as cadets in which they study Engineering degrees and other specialties applied to the military field.
One does not have to be very suspicious to conclude that the purpose of this lightning recruitment of young high school graduates is not to prepare them as regular lieutenants and captains, but rather as henchmen and cannon fodder in the streets to crush an eventual national rebellion.
But the most significant thing is that the unusual recruitment has begun in the eastern region of the Island, a historically “hot” land in social and political terms, where (in Palma Soriano) on July 11, 2021 they shouted “Assassin” in at Ramiro Valdés himself, the distinguished henchman of the dictatorship.
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The above is a good illustration on why yesterday’s actions by FJB have solidified Trump and Republican support in the former Cuban and former Venezuelan communities in South Florida. Substitute FJB’s henchmen in the above excerpt and it plays out the same. Tyrants running scared.
Put the 87,000 additional IRS agents in the above excerpt and it could apply to FJB.
Interesting conclusion. If Cuba is as far gone as the article suggests (in a good way), then the current leaders are going to have a hard time recruiting people who are loyal to the regime. The five-month "training" program will mostly be a five-month loyalty test, where the recruits will be required to demonstrate increasingly nasty acts against their disloyal fellow countrymen to demonstrate their loyalty.
The 20 Republican Senators Who Voted To Confirm Merrick Garland Owe America An Apology
Republicans who aren’t actively opposing Garland’s political weaponization of federal law enforcement are part of the problem.
Excerpt:
After Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice oversaw an FBI raid on the private home of former President Donald Trump, the 20 Republicans who joined Democrats to confirm Garland’s nomination as attorney general must emphatically condemn the nominee they once supported or voters should replace them in their primaries.
When Garland was confirmed in March 2021, only 30 of 50 Republican senators voted against it. The other 20 — Senators Blunt, Burr, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Inhofe, Johnson, Lankford, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Thune, and Tillis — all joined Democrats to approve Garland’s nomination.
Some of those 30, like Grassley and Johnson, have since strongly criticized Garland’s tenure as attorney general and had already condemned the raid by Tuesday morning, to their credit. But others have been conspicuously silent, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who praised Garland’s “long reputation as a straight-shooter and legal expert” at the time of his confirmation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Garland “would be a sound choice to be the next Attorney General. He is a man of great character, integrity, and tremendous competency in the law.”
....In accepting Biden’s nomination, Reuters reported, “Garland said he believes the department’s top priorities will be ‘ensuring racial equity’ and ‘meeting the evolving threat of violent extremism.’” That’s easy code for pushing leftist race politics and targeting conservatives whom Garland views as a political threat.
Those red flags and others contributed to opposition from senators like Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and others.
Cruz explained his “no” vote on Garland’s confirmation because Garland had “refused to make clear that he would stand against the politicization of the department, which we saw during the Obama-Biden years.” Scott called Garland a “radical” who might “politicize” the Department of Justice. In a scathing takedown of Garland’s positions, Cotton said that “when he did answer questions, he sounded more like a liberal ideologue who would embrace the radical agenda of the Democratic party’s far left base.”
“If confirmed,” Cotton added, “I’m afraid that he’ll enable extremists in the Justice Department to undermine our police, our Constitution, and our rule of law.”
Since his appointment, Garland has continued showing himself to be nothing but a partisan hack. One of his most stunning acts of corruption was the reliance on a letter from the National School Boards Association — since revealed to have been planted by the Biden Education Department — to sic the FBI on concerned parents showing up to school board meetings.
.....It’s obvious Merrick Garland is no “straight shooter,” and Republicans who aren’t actively opposing the political weaponization of his federal law enforcement agency are part of the problem. Voters should be watching how their elected representatives respond — or don’t — to his most recent and most outrageous abuse of power.
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The usual RINO critters supported and are silent relating to Garland.