Which one?
Is there a difference?
Posted on 10/14/2015 2:07:01 PM PDT by twister881
Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S.
Cuban paramilitary and special forces units are on the ground in Syria, citing evidence from intelligence reports. Cuban troops may have been training in Russia and may have arrived in Syria on Russian planes.
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Which one?
Is there a difference?
Fatwa issued against Cuban general....Alahwahoo Wackbar!
I think Cuba is going to be in for a rude awakening with ISIS. This isn’t Angola at all.
When the Saudis flooded the oil market earlier this year, it hurt Russia directly and Cuba indirectly because Venezuela, the nation propping Cuba up, was hurt by the Saudi deflation of oil prices.
Payback to the Saudis who back Assad’s enemies????
Sure their arrival in Syria is not lost on Israel this time around....
Except that Israel is also cooperating with Russia against the jihadis. Wouldn’t be the first time Israel linked up with less-than-savory allies in order to fight a common foe.
The media has been abuzz today at the prospect of Russian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe.
The story has riled the US enough that a US general has been wheeled out to tell the world’s press that any Russian attempt to build another nuclear base in Cuba would cross US “red line”.
The story broke earlier this week, when Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted an un-named source from within the Russian military. He told the Russian daily:
“While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba.”
The quote hasn’t been independently confirmed, but the Russian Defense Ministry added fuel to the fire when they refused to comment on the story.
The prospect of Russian nuclear forces being stationed in Cuba - which is, after all, only 90 miles from the US coast - would bring back some rather unpleasant memories for the US of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev launched an audacious and foolhardy bid to station nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island.
http://web.archive.org/web/20081222025753/http://www.siberianlight.net/2008/07/23/russian-nuclear-bombers-cuba/
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Russia to help Cuba modernize weaponry, train military
September 18, 2009
HAVANA, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Modernization of the Soviet-made military equipment and training of Cuban military personnel will be the focus of Russian-Cuban military cooperation in the near future, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Friday. Gen. Nikolai Makarov arrived on a working visit to Cuba on Monday, met with Cuban President Raul Castro and the country's military leadership, and visited a number of military installations.
"During the Soviet era we delivered a large number of military equipment to Cuba, and after all these years most of this weaponry has become obsolete and needs repairs," Makarov said.
"We inspected the condition of this equipment, and outlined the measures to be taken to maintain the defense capability of this country...I think a lot of work needs to be done in this respect, and I hope we will be able to accomplish this task," the general said.
Makarov said the Cuban request for assistance with training of military personnel will also be fully satisfied.
Although the Cuban leadership has repeatedly said it has no intention of resuming military cooperation with Russia after the surprise closure of the Russian electronic listening post in Lourdes in 2001, bilateral military ties seem to have been improving following the visit of Russian Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin to Cuba in July last year.
A group of Russian warships, led by the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer visited Cuba in December last year during a Caribbean tour.
yeah but there’s 654.2 of them vs. Putin’s 4.
yes.
just five big rats.
obummer
the muslim traitor jarrett
the muslim traitor huma
hitlery
skerry
i know not all are in govt at the moment, but they are part of the bigger picture
Dear Bashar: You’re welcome. We now own you, if we hadn’t before.
I was wondering where our humint was coming from. However, with greater contact with Cuba we might get better info from this end as well.
yeah, one is the devil where the other is just some actor...
So long as this country continues its decline as a world power... yes.
Angola 1975 Redux!
All that’s needed now is the North Koreans and we’ll have all the despots in the mix.
As someone said in “Gone With the Wind”, ‘there’s always tomorrow’.
Actually it’s, “For tomorrow is another day!”
When I was a journalist in Cambodia and SVN during the war, I was told on several occasions that North Korean radio communications were picked up by the So. Korean ROK troops.
Also, Cubans possibly flew some MIGS in NVN as well as served as torturers and interrogators in the Hanoi Hilton (Mike Benge testified about his before Congress in the 1990’s but it was ignored by the Clinton Administration).
You might even find a few Red Chinese “observers”, they are great “observers” (just as the Tibetanese and So. Koreans and Indians).
“Hail, Hail, the gangs all here, what the hell does Putin care”.
One advantage to our opening up to Cuba is that there will be a lot more tourists and “tourists” running around the island, and talking with the people, not all of whom are that fond of brothers Castro. It is also convenient that for better or for worse, there are a lot of Spanish speakers in this country to make those visits. I might even make a trip and have been learning Spanish since the 10th grade in high school.
One advantage to finishing the job in Cuba would have been, 50 years of no Castro brothers.
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