On Februrary 20 of 2024 Warring Powers Look to Cuba!
Today -- on February 20th, 2024 -- the image above was from a statewide televised Newscast in Cuba. It shows that a large delegation of Russian officials -- led by Russia's longtime Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov -- is in Havana today meeting with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel. It is not coincidental that Russia is currently engaged in a long and bloody WAR with Ukraine while Cuba now admits in February of 2024 that the island is facing "the greatest economic crisis in this 62nd year of the Blockade." Of course, the United States is a key player in the Russia-Ukraine War, strongly opposing Russia, and also the key player in the economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba that the U. S. began way back in February of 1962. Thus, for those reasons, the image of the Lavrov delegation in Havana today during a crucial point in the Russia-Ukraine War is an image that direly concerns the United States and will garner interest from the rest of the world too. It was in 1962, three years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution shocked the U. S. and the world, that the Cuban Missile Crisis -- pitting the Soviet Union {Russia} against the United States remains to this day "the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear holocaust." Well...today --February 20th, 2024 -- the U. S. and Russia remain the world's two most powerful nuclear superpowers, although otherwise Russia does not compare to the economic or military might of the United States. And therefore the word "nuclear" is why the image above is huge.
Above is the massive headline and photo today -- January 20th, 2024 -- in the Miami Herald as it explains the high-level meeting going on in Havana between Russia and Cuba. The Miami Herald's Nora Gamez Torres, a fierce anti-Cuba journalist, lumps Cuba's president as a supporter of Russia's raging war with Ukraine and this week's death in Russia of dissident leader Navalny -- two events that the U. S. and almost the entire world blame and damn Russia for. Today's Miami Herald headline comes at a time when Russia seeks help in its war and Cuba seeks help with its drastic economic problems, so there is sort of a nexus.
As you can see as illustrated by the above map, Cuba is a only a tiny speck on the overall international spectrum but its geograpical location is extremely huge -- just a few miles south of the United States but thousands of miles from major challenges that the United States faces from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc. And so, as small as Cuba is, it is very important to both the United States and to international challenges that the United States faces.
Meanwhile today -- on February 20th in 2024 -- CUBA remains the largest and arguably the most beautiful nation in the Caribbean Sea, which is comprised of the USA's southeastern neighbors that include U. S. Territories such as Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands. But since the 1950s, back when Batista was the island's dictator, Little Cuba and the Superpower United States have been in David & Goliath-like disagreements -- especially since Janaury of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution ousted Batista and since February of 1962 when the U. S. began its economic Embargo/Blockade of CUBA.
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