Are we looking at a new Cuban Missile Crisis?

[Douglas Caddy]

Cold War Coming Back? Russia ‘Assessing’ Military Base in Cuba as U.S. Set to Leave Nuclear Missile Deal

https://www.newsweek.com/cold-war-russia-military-base-cuba-us-1195433

[Chuck Schwartz]

"On Nov. 17, 1962, after the crisis had passed, an Air Force plan showed the extent of attack aircraft available to attack Cuba. Gen. Curtis LeMay, the Air Force chief of staff, had argued for a U.S. attack on the missile bases. His post-crisis plan showed there were 1,456 aircraft and 355 missiles, including 80 Polaris missiles on nuclear submarines, available to strike Cuba.

 

Those aircraft, the memo showed, were available "for selective attack in graduated increments from two to twelve hours, according to the application of force desired."  This came from a recently released file .

[Douglas Caddy]

The significance of the possibility of Russia putting missiles in Cuba is supremely important.

Putin and Trump talk by telephone regularly. We do not know what they talk about. My guess is that they worked out a strategic scenario that the U.S. would announce it was repudiating the treaty that inhibited the manufacture of nuclear weapons and missiles and thus start a new arms race. Trump did so announce this recently. In return as part of the scenario worked out clandestinely between the two leaders Putin would vociferously protest the U.S. repudiating the arms limitation treaty. He did this as part of their mutually agreed smoke and mirrors. Now Putin can make his next move, which is to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, which is 90 miles offshore from the U.S. His public excuse will be that the U.S. is starting a new arms race and that the U.S. for decades has encircled Russia with military bases that contain nuclear missiles.

Trump is in no position to protest Russia putting missiles in Cuba. He is no JFK. Instead he is a traitor who is being blackmailed by Putin and whose idea of geopolitics is to do whatever will bring more money into his pocket. Did not Lenin say: give the capitalists more rope and they will hang themselves? Trump's world is that of endless greed.

A modern Russian missile fired from Cuba would take 60 seconds to reach Washington and 90 seconds to reach New York City. One fired from a Russian nuclear submarine would take even less time.

Obama took steps to ease the tensions with Cuba and to bring Cuba into the international community. Trump under orders from Putin has taken actions to undo Obama's strategy.

Putin is escalating his geopolitical strategy against the U.S.  because Trump's continuation of occupying the White House is threatened by Special Counsel Mueller's upcoming  indictments.

 

Edited November 4, 2018 by Douglas Caddy

[Cory Santos]

Apparently things with China are getting hot now.  

[Steve Thomas]

"This Troika of Tyranny, this triangle of terror stretching from Havana to Caracas to Managua, is the cause of immense human suffering, the impetus of enormous regional instability and the genesis of a sordid cradle of communism in the Western Hemisphere,” Bolton said. “The United States looks forward to watching each corner of the triangle fall.”

 

National Security Advisor, John Bolton Thursday, November 2, 2018.

 

Steve Thomas