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A report out of Pravda quotes President Vladimir Putin as saying that Russia has
moved strategic nuclear missiles to Cuba in response to the United States’
continuing efforts to encircle Russia in Eastern Europe.
The
article, written by Lyuba Lulko, explains how Russia is reviving its military
operations in Vietnam, Cuba and the Seychelles.
In
October 2001, President Vladimir Putin announced that the Lourdes
radio-electronic center on the island had been shut down as a “gift” to
President George W. Bush on the basis of promises given by Bush that the U.S.
missile defense system would never be deployed in Eastern Europe.
However,
with the missile defense system under the auspices of NATO now reaching
“interim operational capability” in Europe at the end of May, that promise has
been shattered.
“The
Russian Federation has fulfilled all terms of the agreement. And even more. I
shut down not only the Cuban Lourdes but also Kamran in Vietnam. I shut them
down because I gave my word of honor. I, like a man, has kept my word. What
have the Americans done? The Americans are not responsible for their own words.
It is no secret that in recent years, the U.S. created a buffer zone around
Russia, involving in this process not only the countries of Central Europe, but
also the Baltic states, Ukraine and the Caucasus. The only response to this
could be an asymmetric expansion of the Russian military presence abroad,
particularly in Cuba,” the report quotes Putin as saying.
“With
the full consent of the Cuban leadership, on May 11 of this year, our country
has not only resumed work in the electronic center of Lourdes, but also placed
the latest mobile strategic nuclear missiles “Oak” on the island. They did not
want to do it the amicable way, now let them deal with this,” added Putin.
According
to the report, Cuba, which was angered by the original decision to shut down
the radio-electronic center, has agreed to allow Russia to locate the missiles
on Cuban territory because of its fears over new U.S. military bases in
Colombia.
Whether
the quotes attributed to Putin are accurate or not remains to be seen. They
appear nowhere outside of the original Pravda piece.
Once
the primary mouthpiece of the Soviet Communist Party, Pravda’s influence has
now declined rapidly. The online version is managed by former journalists who
worked for the original newspaper but other than that the two versions are
separate entities.
Speculation
that Russia was re-building its nuclear infrastructure in preparation for a
potential future conflict came with the news that 5,000 new nuclear bomb shelters
were being constructed in Moscow to be completed by the end of 2012.
Officials
justified the move by saying they wanted the entire population of Moscow to be
able to reach a nuclear bomb shelter within minutes. China has also built huge
underground bomb shelters, outpacing the United States whose bomb shelters from
the cold war era still remain as they were at the time or have been
decommissioned.
The
prospect of Russia moving nuclear missiles to Cuba obviously harks back to the
1962 Cuban missile crisis, which marked the closest moment that the world came
to World War III and a potential nuclear holocaust.
Given
the gravity of Putin’s alleged statements, don’t expect to wait too long for
Russian authorities to deny the quotes featured in the Pravda report.
(infowars)
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