Russia seeking closer ties to Cuba


	Russia seeking closer ties to Cuba

tommy2balmy

8-22-2008 3:56 PM

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us, russia, cuba, us-russian relations

tommy2balmy says:

I agree with the qoute by the former CIA analyst

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2d531ce4-b8df-41fc-bbf6-fb1e61c9ec5e/54B18E03-E81F-4615-9476-C0F4CA9D057E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/FA4EB362-8757-4D32-85AD-884F0305CCDD" alt="A man walks past a billboard with pictures of retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana August 12, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2"><P>
 The ghost of Cuba-Russia relations past was raised last 
month by a news report that Russia might use Cuba as a 
refueling base for its nuclear-capable bombers. The Russian 
Defense Ministry later denied the report.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2">The security council, which guides <SPAN id="lw_1219426483_12" class="yshortcuts">Russian national 
security</SPAN> policy, said in a following statement the two 
countries planned "consistent work to restore traditional 
relations in all areas of cooperation."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2">But analysts said Russia was a lot more likely to get 
increased trade with Cuba than it was military cooperation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2">"It's impossible to imagine that anyone in the Cuban 
leadership would want to put their country in the bull's eye of 
another superpower showdown reminiscent of the missile crisis," 
said Brian Latell, a former CIA analyst</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/wl_nm/cuba_russia_dc_2">"The military talk seems to be bluster on Moscow's part," 
Peters said. "Cuba has nothing to gain from a military 
relationship, which would be high-risk and out of character 
with the steady renovation of diplomatic relationships" under 
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