Renewed Tensions: A Modern-Day Cuban Missile Crisis?
financialexpress.comRussia sending its fleet including nuclear powered submarine has achieved desired results as far as it has been able to create panic in US media as well as the population at large. The Russian fleet docked at Havana port is around 350 kms from the popular Miami Beach (Florida). So much so that US Southern Command has to rush its submarine USS Helena to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to inspire confidence in the US public.
Here is what a War Correspondent Thinks:
Sharing his views with FinancialExpress.com, Neeraj Rajput a senior war correspondent says: “This is actually a tit for tat by Russian President Vladimir Putin against the US which has been waging war on Russian borders for more than two years.”
According to Rajput who has covered the Russia-Ukraine war, “the major development took place when US President Joe Biden was in Italy to attend the strategically important G7 Summit where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also attending. Also, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin was visiting Brussels for NATO Defence Ministers meet. Both G7 and NATO meets are primarily aimed against Russia.”
FinancialExpress.com has reported previously the focus of the G7 Summit was climate change, Africa and Artificial Intelligence and the Middle East. However, “the moment Ukraine President Zelensky attended the meeting, the agenda was hijacked by anti-Russian narratives. So, we saw G7 countries giving their approval for a US$ 50-billion loan for Ukraine which has been earmarked from the various Russian accounts and assets seized by western countries.”
And, at the summit, “Biden inked a security agreement with Zelensky which can guarantee training of Ukrainian troops for 10 long years besides supplying weapons and financial aid. The only
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