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Russian combat aircraft could return to Cuba
Rian.ru ^ | July 21, 2008

Posted on 07/21/2008 5:48:03 AM PDT by yankeedame

Russian combat aircraft could return to Cuba

21/07/2008 11:13 MOSCOW, July 21, 2008

(RIA Novosti) - Russian combat aircraft could return to Cuba in a bid to counter U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Central Europe, a Russian daily reported on Monday.

Moscow has strongly opposed the possible deployment by the U.S. of 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and an accompanying radar in the Czech Republic as a threat to its national security. Washington says the defenses are needed to deter a possible strike from Iran, or other "rogue" states.

"While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba," a high-placed military aviation source told the Izvestia newspaper.

Russia's Tu-160 (Blackjack) and Tu-95 (Bear) strategic bombers are both capable of reaching Cuba.

However, while the source admitted that the possibility of Russian bombers being stationed in Cuba was for now just a hypothetical possibility, he also noted that the rumors had not appeared from out of thin air.

At the same time, Leonid Ivashov, the former head of the Russian Defense Ministry's department for international cooperation, and currently president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, told Izvestia that Cuba could be used as a refueling stopover for Russian aircraft rather than as a permanent base.

In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis saw a tense standoff between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. when Soviet missiles were stationed in Cuba. As the world held its breath, President John F. Kennedy opted to launch a blockade of Cuba rather than invade, as some American military commanders wanted. The crisis was resolved after 12 days when the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, backed down and ordered the missiles removed.


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: coldwar2; cuba; geopolitics; missiledefense; outpostsoftyranny
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1 posted on 07/21/2008 5:48:03 AM PDT by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

Must be an old, albeit accurate, photo...no flag pin.


2 posted on 07/21/2008 5:52:12 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: yankeedame

Dear Russia,

The Cold War is over. You lost.

Love, Uncle Sam


3 posted on 07/21/2008 5:52:52 AM PDT by gridlock (Al Gore wants YOU to live like the Flintstones while HE lives like the Jetsons. .. FREE LAZAMATAZ!)
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To: yankeedame

Did Raul say it was OK for Russia to do this?


4 posted on 07/21/2008 5:54:25 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: yankeedame

Let ‘em do it and bomb Miami and see what happens...


5 posted on 07/21/2008 5:56:30 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: yankeedame
Repeat after me boys and girls....

The Russians are our *friends*! The Russians are....

6 posted on 07/21/2008 6:13:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The problem with the rat race is,even if you win you're still a rat.)
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To: gridlock
The Cold War is over. You lost.

Then why the need for missiles on her border?

7 posted on 07/21/2008 6:19:11 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: yankeedame

Tyndall AFB in Florida is where F-22 pilots are trained (325th Fighter Wing, IIRC). Just sayin’...


8 posted on 07/21/2008 6:23:47 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: yankeedame

i’ve never understood the russian objections to a missile shield.

are they saying,

we have the right to kill you?

a missile shield is defensive, not offensive.


9 posted on 07/21/2008 6:36:58 AM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: yankeedame

“our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba”

And the first pilot to fly one to Florida will receive a Million dollar reward.


10 posted on 07/21/2008 6:40:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: yankeedame

The MEssiah will allow it.


11 posted on 07/21/2008 6:40:45 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: OrioleFan

And Obama wanted to look like JFK. I guess he will fail on this one.


12 posted on 07/21/2008 6:42:43 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: ken21

“are they saying,
we have the right to kill you?”

In a word, yes. They also don’t want the missile shield in place because that would render the missile tech they are selling to Iran et al. in the ME useless, which would hurt arms sales. That is the real issue...


13 posted on 07/21/2008 6:43:33 AM PDT by piytar
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To: piytar

that’s the way i see it.

it’s comparable to the democrat push to get guns from civilians.

their judges and courts let criminals and gangs, protected by racial political correctness,

run riot over the cities,

killing innocents.

and then the democrats are offended that some people want guns to protect themselves.


14 posted on 07/21/2008 6:48:44 AM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

That’s OK. I think they should bomb Virginia first, then we’ll see what happens. ; )


15 posted on 07/21/2008 6:50:02 AM PDT by FreeManWhoCan (An American in Miami)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Then why the need for missiles on her border?

They still have nukes, silly. It doesn't mean they are going to win the Cold War, though. I would classify them more as a "Rogue Nation" kind of threat, these days. When we say "Rogue Nation", we are usually talking about Iran or the Norks, but the same reasoning applies to the Russkies.

16 posted on 07/21/2008 7:14:36 AM PDT by gridlock (Al Gore wants YOU to live like the Flintstones while HE lives like the Jetsons. .. FREE LAZAMATAZ!)
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To: gridlock
They still have nukes, silly.

So do we. So I guess to be on the safe side they need to put their own missile defense in Cuba?

17 posted on 07/21/2008 8:41:15 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
So do we. So I guess to be on the safe side they need to put their own missile defense in Cuba?

If they think it would be to their advantage, they should. But we don't aim our missiles over the Southern pole, so that would not be a logical location.

If they want to invest in a anti-missile system for one of their northern islands, that might make some sense, assuming they think we are liable to nuke them. It is hard to think of a scenario where that would come about, but it's their money...

18 posted on 07/21/2008 8:50:30 AM PDT by gridlock (Al Gore wants YOU to live like the Flintstones while HE lives like the Jetsons. .. FREE LAZAMATAZ!)
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To: Non-Sequitur
To be on the safe side we should invade and occupy Cuba to prevent the Soviets from reestablishing their foothold.

Death to the Castro brothers!

Death to KGB Putin and his Chekist regime!

19 posted on 07/21/2008 12:14:45 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe (Cuba Libre!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
To be on the safe side we should invade and occupy Cuba to prevent the Soviets from reestablishing their foothold.

Two wars at a time please.

20 posted on 07/21/2008 12:16:08 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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