From our Bureau of Justified Suspicion with some assistance from our Bureau of Nearly Miraculous Coincidences
Castro, Inc.’s Ministry of Truth let the Cuban people know yesterday that their island was being visited by General Viktor Khrenin, Defense Minister of Belarus. As usual, the Ministry’s official press used a lot of words to say nothing of substance. Yeah, the minister is visiting “historical” sites and everyone involved in his visit is blabbering about “solidarity” between the two nations.
Sure. That’s it. Lots of vodka toasting, too, for sure. Salud, amigos! Droozyia! boodem zdarovy! (Friends! To our health!) . . . oh, and mojitos, too . . . and bring in some shapely cigar ladies.
Never mind the coincidence that Cuban troops are being trained in Belarus, or the coincidence that the two nations have been discussing the deployment of Belarusian missiles in Cuba, or the coincidence that a high Kremlin official has just called for the installation of Russian missiles in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Yeah, the Defense Minister is visiting Cuba so he can see “historical” sites, drink mojitos, and give bear hugs to his counterparts in Cuba’s armed forces. Sure.
Abridged and loosely translated from Diario de Cuba
According to the official Prensa Latina agency, the official reception of the soldier was carried out by his Cuban counterpart, Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, with whom he attended a protocol ceremony at the El Cacahual mausoleum, where the soldiers are buried. remains of the Cuban independence general Antonio Maceo and his assistant, Panchito Gómez Toro, among other Cuban combatants. There the Belarusian soldier placed a wreath.
According to that report, Khrenin said there that “the historical ties of friendship, collaboration and fraternity between the peoples of Cuba and Belarus constitute the basis of the relationship between both nations.”
During the ceremony, Khrenin thanked the hospitality that he has received since his arrival on the Island on Sunday, and stressed that, despite the geographical distance and cultural and historical particularities, both countries are very similar.
“We are united by the will to defend independence, social justice, collaboration on equal terms with other states and that we are not afraid of difficulties,” said the Kremlin’s close ally in the invasion of Ukraine, especially after Moscow deployed tactical nuclear missiles on Belarusian territory in 2023.
Representatives of the Armed Forces of both countries agreed in Havana on a “draft Military Cooperation Agreement and the Bilateral Activities Plan for 2024,” the official Belarusian agency Belta reported at the time.
From that meeting it emerged in Belarusian media that the Cuban regime would be interested in the supply of Belarusian weapons, including Polonez missile launchers, with a range of up to 300 kilometers.
The trip of the Belarusian Defense Minister takes on new light a few hours after Alexei Zhuravlev, vice president of the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, called for the deployment of nuclear weapons in Cuba, as well as in Nicaragua and Venezuela, to exert pressure on the United States. .
A visit like Khrenin’s confirms the strengthening of ties between the military and repressive apparatuses of Minsk, Moscow and Havana, in addition to those already existing with China, all governments with which the Cuban regime aligns itself, while seeking to ensure that the United States ease the sanctions of the embargo and exclude it from its list of government sponsors of terrorism.
Whole story HERE in Spanish
I’m sorry, but those baseball caps are just too cringeworthy. The UN needs to do something.
What a bunch of fat bastards.
Cuba and Belarus have a shared history going back hundreds of hours. It first began in the early part of the second decade of the 21st century. It has continued to this day.