With a Russian Destroyer in Havana, Pootie Poot has his T’s crossed...
Two points:
1) What can a single destroyer in Cuba do? What I’d really be worried about is if he parked a couple of Typhoons off the East or West Coasts.
2) That ‘Budapest Memorandum’...yes, they should have given over all their nukes. What if they didn’t? What if they managed to sneak a few away for ‘insurance’? Would it it have been possible to flim-flam the nations doing the observing of the transfer? I say...you bet.
“With a Russian Destroyer in Havana, Pootie Poot has his T’s crossed...”
That ship isn’t a destroyer. It is Russia’s version of the Pueblo and the Liberty.
The ship in Havana didn’t look like a destroyer to me but more like an auxiliary with a Shilka mount forward and an impressive array of aerials.
One well-aimed nuclear-tipped cruise missile up its stern would end that presence.