Posted on 07/05/2023 4:13:10 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Madrid-based Prisoners Defenders, an NGO focused on Cuban human rights, reported that the Cuban and Russian governments signed an agreement in which Cuba would send soldiers to join the war in Ukraine. Such a development raises many important questions.
The Wagner Group’s dramatic failed mutiny displayed something the Kremlin knew long ago: the group, including its leader, Yevgeny Prighozin, has become a problem for Russia, particularly on the Ukrainian front.
The group had little military training and served as cannon fodder in the war. Thousands of its fighters fell in battle. Wagner was convenient to Russia, as many of its recruits were criminals recruited out of Russian prisons. In other words, they were soldiers whose lives were expendable. Moreover, using these Wagnerites in lieu of formal soldiers helped prevent a crisis of internal legitimacy in Russia.
Likewise, Wagner has played an essential role in various parts of the world, where its operations are tied to the Russian military and intelligence community. The group has provided security services, paramilitary assistance, and launched disinformation campaigns for regimes and political organizations in Sudan, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Mali, Libya, and particularly Syria.
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It is again this background that we can understand Russia's recruitment of Cuban soldiers.
According to Prisoners Defenders, Russia would pay every soldier $2,000 monthly, but the Cuban government would take 75 to 95 percent of such income. The report also claims that these soldiers have no choice but to join Russian troops. Otherwise, they would be subjected to retaliation and punishment.
This is not the first time Cuban soldiers have been deployed abroad in such a manner; they have been involved in wars in Angola, Ethiopia, Congo, Algeria, Iraq, and Syria. In Africa alone, Cuba is estimated to have lost 5,000 soldiers.
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Putin and the Russian military are stronger after the Wagner episode. Hey, the US has its cannon fodder, the Ukes, why can’t the Russians have theirs? You administration operatives should be concerned about where the administration cannon fodder will come from once they have bled the youth of Ukraine dry.
And Cuba like Russia has a birth rate of ~1.5.
(break even =2)
That’s idiotic, the term cannon fodder doesn’t apply to people defending their own country from foreign invasion.
People naturally fight for their country in such circumstances, and not for politicians.
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https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d1574242-c620-4424-b36d-a7c5051b3e7f
Thinking of desertion?
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/fcf0a7e3-5e7b-4e71-97de-4289f383d9a7
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/8fe6a05c-5baf-42db-8d24-e86030f9a925
The settlement was negotiated and initialed during the Erdogan talks before DC pulled the rug out from under peace. Those contested areas are no more Uke than Russian. If you don’t know that you are completely ignorant of the history of the area. Yes, absolutely DC globalist cannon fodder. This is all about NATO subverting the Minsk Agreements and attacking the Russians. Without the DC oligarchs forcing their stooge, Zelensky, to use his army to do NATO’s dirty work, the Uke dying would have ended a year ago. That’s what hundreds and hundreds of billions in weaponry and graft will buy a corrupt hegemonic organization.
An old lie.
“old lie” so says the chief media masters shoveler here on FR. You’ve got nerve if nothing else.
Join up and eat.
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