Someone MIGHT Get Hurt!!
London's Daily Express, which has a truly massive Internet following, used the photo-graphic above to headline a major article reminiscent of the October-1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which remains the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear holocaust. The article referenced this week's visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prized warship, the Admiral Gorshkov-454, to Havana Harbor. The headline screamed: "HOW PUTIN'S MISSILES COULD REACH U. S. COAST IN 6 MINUTES FROM CUBA." Wow!! The Russian Admiral is indeed frightening. The Daily Express told London and the world these facts: "It is equipped for anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare missions -- with a potentially deadly superstar cruise missile as its primary weapon." Of course, the analogy with 1962 sells newspapers and Online ads but, truth be known, apart from little Cuba being thrust again into the equation, both the United States and Russia already had submarine missiles, airborne missiles and land missiles capable of mutual nuclear destruction or annihilation.
From a topical standpoint, the photo above might be more scary to the United States and its allies than Russia's ultra-modern warship Admiral Gorshkov docking in Havana this week. Yes, the Admiral's visit to Cuba sent a message to Trump's anti-Cuban war-mongers Rubio/Diaz-Balart/Claver-Carone/Bolton/Pompeo, but this photo reflects even more of a military threat to the USA from Russia. It shows President Putin meeting with his top military advisers. All five of these men are audacious and they believe they can match the United States missile-for-missile when it comes to nuclear weapons. Otherwise, Putin would not have changed the military dynamics in places like Syria and Venezuela. Did Putin this week show that he's ready to alter the military dynamic in Cuba too??? Maybe.
Meanwhile, Cuba's post-revolutionary President, Miguel Diaz-Canel...the island's former Education Minister...actually doesn't have much to say about whether the U. S. and Russia start a regional war...or World War III...over Cuba. This photo was taken this week -- June 26-2019 -- and shows President Diaz-Canel visiting a children's hospital in Camaguey in the heart of Cuba. Diaz-Canel often takes to Twitter to make points such as this: "In the U. S. Marco Rubio assumes Americans are either stupid or scared-to-death to challenge his Rubio-enriching lie that every penny the U. S. allows into Cuba goes into the pockets or offshore bank accounts of Cuban leaders. The U. S. doesn't come close to guaranteeing free college educations or free healthcare for its people but Cuba does that for every Cuban citizen. Americans are not stupid so I assume they are very afraid of Rubio and his pals...and so it seems are the major media sources in the United States."
This photo was also taken this week as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel moved across the island to ascertain if his desire to sharply increase food production on the island is beginning to show results. The Cuban leader, who has a strong presence on Cuban radio and television stations as well as on on Social Media internet forums, freely admits that Rubio's Trump-induced activation of Helms-Burton Title 3 has created food shortages on the island. Diaz-Canel is not interested in a war with the United States, even with Russia's support. In Camaguey this week, Diaz-Canel was heard to tell a farmer as summarized by a Camaguey journalist: "The Rubio and Diaz-Balart types have power to strangle us when there is a Republican president. We must survive that strangulation while also improving our own capacity to sustain ourselves while trying for more-and-more foreign investments from nations that will see the benefit of dealing with us. Our potential is enormous. Vietnam, now a U. S. trade partner, sees that...and hopefully other countries will too, apart from what is now the U. S. threats against nations and companies that want to trade fairly and freely with us. We all know that most U. S. farmers and companies want to have the freedom to deal with us, but the U. S. is not the free nation it says it is."
In other words, Cuba remains mystified why Rubio's lies can so easily intimidate Americans. Perhaps Rubio's biggest lie is that he is "HELPING" everyday Cubans and that everyday Cubans know that and like him. Anyone who has been to Cuba and mingled with EVERYDAY CUBANS knows that Cubans on the island massively and passionately hate Rubio and fully believe that he is willing to starve or annihilate them in order to further his lucrative Little Havana nests in Miami, both economically and politically.
Even the most powerful newspaper in Rubio's hometown, the Miami Herald, has assailed Rubio for his gutless sacrifice of innocent Cubans to further his own economic and political careers. The Miami Herald invited young Cuban mothers and entrepreneurs to write a scathing article {see above} in which they assailed Rubio for assaulting their children's welfare as they begged Rubio to at least meet with then...they also took their pleas to Washington...to hear their side of the story. Of course, Rubio has neither the guts nor the decency to do that.
And of course, even Democracy-lovers like me must admit that the USA's brand of Democracy obviously has a fatal flaw if the likes of a Havana-to-Little Havana Diaz-Balart family or a flyweight like Marco Rubio can hide behind it for 6+ decades and present the image above of the USA to the entire world. I would assume that every true Democracy-lover in America is ashamed of this exceedingly accurate worldwide Carlos LaTuff image. At least, they should be.
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