The arrival at the port of Havana of the Russian military ship Perekov, scheduled for this Tuesdayhides other interests beyond sending humanitarian aid, warns Cuba Siglo 21. According to a dossier Made public this Monday by the organization, based in Madrid, and signed by former Cuban general Rafael del Pino, exiled in the United States, the visit of the ship, with 500 cadets on board, is a first step in a new strategy to test to washington.
Its objective would be, says the document entitled Cuba 2023: Sacrifice ourselves for Putin?, “to establish a constant flow of trips to Cuba by air and naval vessels with conventional and nuclear strike capacity that will serve Putin to obtain concessions in a theatrical political blackmail game in which you assume the role of ‘irrational actor'”.
The NGO considers that the probability of this hypothesis coming true “grows in direct proportion to Putin’s military defeats in Ukraine”
For this, Cuba Siglo 21 supports in a statement, “it is not necessary the massive mobilization of resources of 1962, but the continuous presence in Cuba of at least one ship with the capacity to launch a limited nuclear attack, but that causes intolerable damage”.
The NGO considers that the probability of this hypothesis coming true “grows in direct proportion to Putin’s military defeats in Ukraine.”
The Cuban “oligarchs” of the Business Administration Group (Gaesa), assures Del Pino in his dossier“seek to accelerate –in the current context of their alliance with Putin– the strengthening of the Radio Electronic Exploration Brigade (BERE) of the Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM)” of the Armed Forces “through the improvement of their equipment and the collaboration of Russian and Chinese advisers”.
In exchange, Havana would allow the presence of Russian ships in its waters, with humanitarian and economic excuses. “The Kremlin might be tempted to play the role of an irrational bin Laden sitting at the gates of the United States wearing a suicide vest filled with nuclear explosives. The vest is not enough to take out his opponent, but it is enough to inflict significant damage if not They grant you what you request”, exposes Del Pino as a metaphor.
This is a strategy, documents the former general, which is reminiscent of the one suggested in 1982 by Raúl Castro, then Minister of the Armed Forces, to Yuri Andropov. “We think that perhaps visits from some Soviet naval detachments, like the one that is in Cuba right now, will help us,” Castro wrote to the then Soviet president in the face of a possible aggression by the United States.
The letter, attached by the NGO, continues: “If possible, we carry out a joint maneuver. We do not publish it, but the enemy finds out. More frequently. In short, their ships travel all over the world, including Cuba. No We violate no international law or principle, no international norm, and I think that visits by high-level military delegations help to do that, like the one made by comrade Orgavok, chief of the General Staff, or, even more important, like the one that could be carried out by the comrade and friend, Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union DF Ustinov. This type of visit, I think, would have a great political and security connotation for our country”.
A previous report, published last March, warned of the dangers of a possible military alliance between the Island and Russia.
Andropov’s response is also included in the report: “Comrade Raúl Castro, I will start with the most unpleasant and most important part of a communication that both you and we must always keep in mind. We cannot fight in Cuba. Simply because you they are 12,000 kilometers from us […] Go there to get our faces kicked? No!”.
Along the same lines as a previous report, published last March, in which it warned of the dangers of a possible military alliance between the Island and RussiaDel Pino points out that “there is an invariable pattern of behavior: Moscow uses Cuba as a bargaining chip to put pressure on the United States in favor of its own interests, and then abandons it if it runs into an intransigent position from Washington.”
For this reason, it asks the US “to decisively and energetically prevent Cuba’s military and intelligence alliance with Russia and China from becoming more dangerous and intolerable.”
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