A recent tongue slip by Raul Castro indicates the road ahead to a New Cold War.
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“In the international arena, we agree with the current policy of strength and political intelligence that the Soviet Union — I mean Russia — is carrying out,” Castro said.
Yes, Russia is only a euphemism for the Soviet Union and Raul Castro knows that very well when he tries to elaborate the policies of his recent host, the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
And what does that mean? It means a lot!
From the aspect of Cuba itself, collaboration with its long forgotten ally could mean an economic boost. Putin promised great investments in the infrastructure in this country and erased almost all the debts of Cuba to the Soviet Union.
For Russia, a reinstalled presence in Cuba could be leverage in political games with the West. Having Russians just a hundred miles from the USA ’s coast is not something the great planners from Washington had in their predictions over the past decade. This could ease up much of the pressure that Russian’s are sustaining in Ukraine or Syria. Maybe it doesn’t have the same excitement as the original Cuban crisis from 1962, but some spirits of the darkest days of the Cold War could rise. And that’s exactly what will be happening with US foreign policy in the near future.
The twin brothers of global politics are finally reunited and the fun can get started.
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Russians are on the very border, just a few miles from sovereign American soil. Is there any better scenario for a tired propaganda machine? No need any more for fabricated proof about chemical or nuclear weapons in some third rate countries. Russia has it all. Nukes in such large number, enough to destroy the planet a couple of hundred times. Biological and chemical agents produced in such sophisticated manners that at this time nobody should even question about the sincerity of proof. Russia has everything that the USA has. The twin brothers of global politics are finally reunited and the fun can get started.
So we can wait for another Cold War and this time we won’t even see an ideological clash between East and West. Oh no, this time it is a capitalism vs. capitalism and “democracy” against “democracy”. Billionaire corporations will fight and work together at the same time, for the love of the country of course.
And what for the ordinary men? Probably nothing. Apart from propaganda in media, the New Cold War may be the best thing that ever happened to humanity. Super powers are so super that it makes them scared to fight each other, because they know the outcome: Certain death.
All the best from the USA and Russia will be in the growth-plan, it is a dream come true after so many years of unilateral world dominance.
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Constant tension in vocabulary, sporadic interventions and mass panic in media is to be expected from the New Cold War. On the good side we will see a great competition in science, industrialization, space race, sports, etc. All the best from the USA and Russia will be in the growth-plan, it is a dream come true after so many years of unilateral world dominance. Years of great instability, local and regional conflicts waged without proper mediations of greater power, because there is an absence of objective intermediacy and constant failure of diplomacy when instead of finding solutions in policy, conflicts are ended in the best US interest. Now it will be in the best US-RUS interest and that’s a little bit better.
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The Great Cuban Crisis is one of the dark memoirs from the Cold War era, along with the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. But we are talking of 40 years of relative world pace and the biggest industrial production and technological advancement in the history of mankind. So if by chance we don’t end up in another Cold War, please let’s fake it for everyone’s sake.
The President of the Caribbean Island, Raul Castro is right when instead of Russia he says the Soviet Union, because these days that’s what Russia is. And that’s the best news for Washington.
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