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Cold War Coming Back? Russia ‘Assessing’ Military Base in Cuba [TR]
Newsweek ^ | 10/31/18 | Tom O'Connor

Posted on 11/01/2018 12:54:09 PM PDT by McGruff

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To: gathersnomoss
Mobius Strip:


21 posted on 11/01/2018 1:33:48 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: McGruff

Having a strong military is expensive.

Does Russian have the money to actually be a threat? Didn’t their single Air Craft Carrier sink while in dry dock?

Even maintaining Nuclear weapons is an expensive proposition. Just “building” a nuclear bomb is not the end of it. They need constant maintenance. Expensive.

Setting up a base in Cuba, why? To threaten the US? Well they would get one shot and then be wiped out. Does Cuba really want to go down that road again. President Trump has had a habit of ending treaties that are bad for the US. At the end of the last Cuba Missile crisis part of the deal was to leave Cuba alone. If the Russian moved back in and started building bases then that puts the end of any treaty.

And so it goes.

The old Soviet Union collapse because it could not spend as much on defense as the US. Does a smaller Russia have a better economy then the entire Soviet Empire. If so, go for it. See you at the check out stand when the bill comes due.

As usual this is just my simple opinion and as always I may be wrong or misinformed


22 posted on 11/01/2018 1:40:38 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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Heh. Cuba under the microscope on one side, Russia’s fake weapons and bases around Moscow on the other side,... Looks like fun in the near future. Anyone interested in Siberian real estate?


23 posted on 11/01/2018 1:44:14 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: CIB-173RDABN

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46030113
The dry dock sank and a crane fell on it.

Placing bets whether Kuznetsov could even be towed to Bangladesh for scrapping...


24 posted on 11/01/2018 1:44:51 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: McGruff

Trump should let Vlady know in no uncertain terms; absolutely not!


25 posted on 11/01/2018 1:45:54 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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Hi.

Newsweak is a bunch of hate Trump snowflakes.

They have no idea.

Watched the Hunt for Red October last night.

“Yuri, don’t tell me you lost ANOTHER ONE.”

5.56mm


26 posted on 11/01/2018 1:49:48 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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I once read that a threat is not what an enemy wants to do but what they are capable of doing. The Russian’s capabilities have be lowered over the years,


27 posted on 11/01/2018 1:50:55 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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JFK’s incompetence continues to haunt to this day


28 posted on 11/01/2018 1:52:26 PM PDT by uncbob
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>>>How does Newsweek print a single side, one page magazine?<<<

I think it would be an improvement.


29 posted on 11/01/2018 2:03:51 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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” ... a new arms race is on, he says, and Russia must not give up.”

So, Gorby, how did the last arms race with the US turn out for you?


30 posted on 11/01/2018 2:19:18 PM PDT by riverdawg
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