From our Bureau of Twenty-First Century Neocolonialism with some assistance from our Bureau of Shopping Trips for Cannon Fodder
Without any fanfare or detailed news coverage, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin slipped into Cuba, ostensibly to discuss the “intensification of military contacts” between the two Russian colonies. Chances are that Khrenin has been sent to Castrogonia by Czar Vlad the Invader through his Belarusian puppet Aleksandr Lukashenko in search of more young Cubans to use as cannon fodder in Ukraine. Or, if it’s for some other reason, you can be sure this visit will somehow make life worse for Cubans. Such are the joys of neocolonialism.
Loosely translated from Diario de Cuba
Viktor Khrenin, Minister of Defense of Belarus, traveled discreetly and without a public agenda to Cuba on Saturday, in what would constitute the first known visit of the top military official of the Alexander Lukashenko regime to the Island.
Khrenin, who has held the position since January 20, 2020 and has been one of the architects of Minsk’s new military doctrine, which includes indirectly participating in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the deployment of weapons in its territory. tactical nuclear weapons from Moscow, would make an official visit to Havana, as reported on Saturday on its official Telegram channel by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.
“The Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin, has left for an official visit to the Republic of Cuba,” says the brief statement, without offering other details or indicating the agenda of the visit.
If you want to find reports about it in the Cuban media, the result is even more enigmatic: the official profiles do not inform about the trip or its purposes. The Prensa Latina agency, which last July reported on Khrenin’s trip to Tehran to talk about “bilateral military cooperation” with Iran, has not reported on it.
The above contrasts with the enormous attention that the visit to Belarus of the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Cuba, Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, received in June 2023, who was in that country after making a trip that It also led to Vietnam and Russia. In Minsk, the Cuban soldier sealed Havana’s military alliance with the Lukashenko regime.
According to Belarusian media reports, during his stay in Belarus, the Cuban general met, along with several officials from his Ministry, with Khrenin. According to this information, the governments of Belarus and Cuba are interested in intensifying military contacts.
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The trip out of Cuba via Belarus and the Ukrainian war is probably safer than crossing the Mexican border into the USA. Sign up, go to war, grow a pair and return to fix Cuba.