WW3: Vladimir Putin ‘to re-open’ Soviet military bases in CUBA sparking Cold War 2 fears

[rangerrebew]

WW3: Vladimir Putin ‘to re-open’ Soviet military bases in CUBA sparking Cold War 2 fears

VLADIMIR Putin is set to reactivate Soviet-era military intelligence bases in Cuba, almost 60 years after Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries seized power from the US-backed Fulgencio Batista on December 31, 1959.

By Tom Evans
PUBLISHED: 12:29, Mon, Dec 31, 2018
      


In the darkest days of the Cold War, Cuba was at the centre of tensions between the US and the Soviet Union, with the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis bringing the world closer to all-out nuclear war than ever before. Ever since, Cuba’s relationship with the US has been frosty at best and the legacy of the island’s close diplomatic ties with Moscow remains strong to this day. Now, the island’s bond with the Kremlin is as strong as ever and current Russian supremo Vladimir Putin appears hell-bent on strengthening it further.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canal met with Putin in Moscow in November, saying he wanted to give a “new impulse” to bilateral relations.

The two leaders discussed military cooperation, as well as matters on healthcare and tourism.

Meanwhile, Yuri Borisov, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, went on a much-publicised visit to Cuba that same month.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1065145/ww3-vladimir-putin-cuba-soviet-union-bases-cold-war-nuclear-donald-trump-spt

[thackney]

Not just Cuba:

Cold War 2? Russia sparks PANIC by plotting first Caribbean move since CUBA MISSILE CRISIS
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1060363/russia-news-caribbean-base-cold-war-cuban-missile-crisis
Dec 17, 2018

The Kremlin will be “deploying Tu-160 strategic aircraft” to Venezuela after seeking permission from the country’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro, according to state-sponsored news agency TASS. Russian experts selected the island of La Orchila, 125 miles northeast of Venezuela’s capital Caracas, as a possible military base in the Caribbean, TASS said. And now their plan can become reality if the cash-strapped country gives Moscow the permission to set up the base.

[Wingnut]

This is good news.  Very good news indeed.  Living in the shadow of a Soviet initiated mushroom cloud made for the best time growing up in the US.  MAD made America prosperous.  It is what we need today.

I welcome a second cold war.  The Snowflake's are gonna have to learn how to stop worrying and love the Bomb.  There are no safe spaces in nuclear war.

[Free Vulcan]

Russia sure seems to be throwing alot of money around lately. I didn't realize their financial position had improved so.