By: Andrea Shea King
The Radio Patriot
In my World Net Daily column Surfin Safari this week and last, I wrote that it was 47 years ago this month our nation was threatened with nuclear war with the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles being installed in Cuba. We know it as The Cuban Missile Crisis. President John Kennedy spent a tense 13 days negotiating with then Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to remove the nukes. Khrushchev thought he could get away with it because he perceived JFK to be weak against Communism when our president buckled with the Bay of Pigs disaster earlier in his Administration.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Last week, I told you about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Forty-seven years ago, the world breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to dismantle all Russian missiles based in Cuba and ship them back to the Soviet Union.
The announcement was made in a public message to President John F Kennedy broadcast on Moscow Radio. In response, President Kennedy said the decision to remove the Cuban missiles was an “important contribution to peace”. He also promised the U.S. would not invade Cuba and would eventually lift the U.S. naval blockade imposed on the island and remove the Jupiter missiles based in Turkey.
And the Cold War continued.
Today we find that history is repeating itself. Are the Russians smelling weakness in our “president”? From World Net Daily:
Russia is offering to modernize Cuba’s deteriorating weapons systems – installed when the former Soviet Union was expanding worldwide – and it also wants to reactivate a sensitive electronic eavesdropping station on the nearby island at Lourdes, use Cuba as a base to refuel its bombers and a port to replenish supplies on its warships, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
These developments emerged following the visit to Cuba in late September by Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the Russian General Staff. Makarov met with Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana.
Cuba’s Soviet-made military equipment has been falling apart. After an assessment, the Russian military has decided to undertake a comprehensive modernization. In addition, the Cuban army also will receive Russian military training.
There’s more.
The question now is: what will our current “president” do about it?
Care to guess? After all, he loves being compared with JFK…
