How can the U.S. object with us raising hell in the Caucasus?
"Russia, Cuba rekindle partnership; Cold War allies avoid talk of military link" by Michael Schwirtz, The New York Times | January 31, 2009
MOSCOW - The presidents of Russia and Cuba signed a strategic partnership and several other documents yesterday aimed at rekindling their faded Cold War alliance, pledging to expand cooperation in agriculture, manufacturing, science, and tourism but studiously avoiding a public discussion of military ties.
It had been nearly a quarter century since a Cuban leader had set foot on Russian soil, and President Raul Castro's visit to Moscow this week had little of the pomp and propaganda of the Cold War days, when he and his brother, Fidel, were greeted with parades on Red Square and Soviet leaders affectionately referred to Cuba as the "Island of Freedom."
But a decade and a half after a crumbling Soviet Union hastily withdrew financial and ideological backing from Cuba, Russia is seeking to expand economic ties with the island and possibly forge stronger military relations in an echo, as yet still faint, of an alliance that lasted some 30 years.
It is part of a larger Russian push into Latin America to secure new markets, and also to swipe at the United States for what Moscow considers Washington's meddling in Russia's historic sphere of influence, particularly in the former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia....
Of course, the U.S. IS MEDDLING THERE, but the AmeriKan paper leaves you with the opposite conclusion. The Russians charge it, buuuuuutttt.....
Russian officials promised the delivery of 25,000 tons of grain and a $20 million loan for the development of Cuba's construction, energy, and agriculture sectors....
I am GLAD people are being FED!
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Like Venezuela, which played host last fall to two Russian strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons, Cuba has also had Russian military visitors recently. In December, a contingent of Russia's North Sea Fleet docked in Havana after exercises with Venezuela's navy.
You SEE, readers?
Neither Medvedev nor Castro spoke publicly about military cooperation, perhaps out of a desire to avoid antagonizing the new administration of President Barack Obama, analysts said.
Since Obama's election, both Russia and Cuba appear to have called a unilateral truce with Washington, and the volume of anti-American sentiment, which had reached deafening pitch in, has been toned down.
We will not listen; we never do.
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