Posted on 01/20/2015 2:47:01 PM PST by Nachum
Havana (AFP) - A Russian intelligence warship docked in Havana on Tuesday, a day before the start of historic US-Cuba talks aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations.
There was nothing stealthy about the arrival of the Viktor Leonov CCB-175, which was moored to a pier in Old Havana where cruise ships often dock. But the visit was not officially announced by Cuban authorities.
US officials in Washington played down the presence of the Russian vessel, saying it was perfectly legal and not at all out of the ordinary.
"It's not unprecedented. It's not unusual. It's not alarming," a defense official told AFP.
The Vishnya or Meridian-class intelligence ship, which has a crew of around 200, went into service in the Black Sea in 1988 before it was transferred seven years later to the northern fleet, according to Russian media.
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Why the need to spy? Just ask the dumb son-of-a-bitch... I’m sure he’ll tell you everything you want to know.
It stopped in Cuba last year, too.
Now, Czar Vlad is using a Cold War ship in his effort to start a new one.
Much ado about nothing...
While the timing might be suspect, this is a regular stop for this ship, and has been for many years. google the pics.
“”a day before the start of historic US-Cuba talks aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations.””
I didn’t know we were sending some of our talented bureaucrats from DC there! Well, good for us. They’ve proven themselves in so many different diplomatic endeavors since they came to town with Barney. Barf!
Russian listening to ‘top-secret’ talks between the Democrats and the Cubans:
“Commandant, our people said exactly what we told them to!”
Russian commander:
“Excellent! And how did the Cubans respond?”
Doubt that we are? Our President and most of Congress are Communist.
The Chinese maintain an advanced electronic base in the center of the Havana province to intercept all electronic communications in U.S. and is equipped for eventual cyber attacks to U.S.
Putin is reopening the spy base in the outskirts of Havana that was closed after the dismembering of the Soviet Union.
Six months before the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attack to New York and Washington, Fidel Castro, speaking at Tehran University in Iran on May 10, 2001, vowed that “the imperialist king will finally fall”, that their cooperation would put the U.S. down its knees. The hatred of the Castro brothers against U.S. has not mellowed after 56 years in power.
After Obama surrender to the communist regime the American base in Cuba, Castro might give the Guantanamo base to Iran to consolidate and strengthen the Cuban ties to the Islamic terrorist network, an alliance that started since the very beginning of taken power in Cuba the communist revolution.
Odumbo was just made a fool again by the Cubanos.
This is what Obama wants, it’s the American people who trusted this guy who are the fools.
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