Cubans have a long history of fighting alongside the Russians in Africa- Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan. Generally, their forces comported themselves well- from the Russian perspective this makes a lot of sense. If the conflict drags on, wouldn’t surprise me to see actual expeditionary forces from other Russia aligned countries- if they aren’t already embedded to gain combat experience and as USA/NATO forces already are.
Ironically...America does the same.
“ Several Cubans have signed year-long contracts and were sent to the war zone”
Several huh?
It shows how bad the Cuban paradise is, when their own people beg to become cannon fodder for Russia, just to receive measly Russian citizenship? They actually prefer to go into a war zone instead of remaining in Cuba.
Michael Moore and Sean Penn are always telling us how the USA needs to be more like Cuba.
The way the woke US military is going, they may have to do something similar in a few years to get enough volunteers. Most of the “migrants” at the so- called US border are young, able bodied men anyway.
Che supposedly said to Fidel: “We are wasting our time on this one flyspeck on the continent” (meaning now that they conquered Cuba they should get on with the world takeover for Communism). Fidel didn’t agree.