MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Cuba launches “Bastion-2009” preparing for “future US attack”
Half a century after a failed US-supported invasion of Cuba, the country announced it is holding a military exercise to boost preparedness against any future US attack. The official newspaper Granma said that the “Bastion-2009” exercises will “raise the deterrent capacity to prevent a military confrontation, under the principle that there is no better way to win a war than by avoiding it.” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe USA does not have any intention at all, to engage in combat with Cuba.
Nov 27th, 2009 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I believe Cuba is in isolation stage and to get somehow a desperate attention, especially within Latin American countries, brings up dysfunctional ideas about war.
To the contrary, some south american leaders, are spending over 38 billions USD in weapons and military war equipment in the last five months. However, those countries are currently sufferirng from lack of drink water, absence of nutrition food, shortest of power and poor education system.
So, the question is : why food on a family table is being replaced by bullets.
Kirk Nelson, from New York, USA
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