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Originally Posted by 89whiteandnerdy
I don't think the US has much to worry about...I think this country will implode socially and politically before anybody has the balls to nuke us.
Cuba is its own country, and Russia is its own country. We can't tell them what they can and can't do unless it directly threatens or jeopardizes the safety of US citizens. I say instead of running everyone else's lives for them, we merely keep tabs on the military presence in Cuba and ensure our ability to defend our borders (Interceptors? Ground-to-air missiles?).
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Nobody in Russia will nuke anyone - we are not Americans, we don't have the doctrine of preventive nuke strike. The US will be nuked by some terrorist one day, by one of those guys whom the US trained for the terrorist war against Russia and China, and who showed impressive abilities to act independently.
The situation with airfields in Cuba is simple. There is such thing as the strategic nuclear balance, the basis of MAD concept. The rockets on the eastern border of Poland and radar station in Czech Republic upheavel this balance, because the US refused to set the AMD station in Azerbaidjan, which could lead to the safe co-operation of Russia and the US and created the knot of global united US-Euro_Russian system of anti-missle defense. The US have chosen to threaten Russia and now everyone can see that danger from Iran was the trick. Rockets in Poland will be offencive, Polish pro-US anti-EU marionette government openly declared this system gonna be anti-Russian.
Whatever truth is, Russia must compensate the upheavel of the nuclear balance. The airfields in Cuba are nothing else but small counterweight on the opposite cup of scales. If AMD rockets in Poland are really intended to intercept Iranian ICBM, there is no reason for the US to get worried. The anti-missile project rearranges the architecture of balance, but leaves it's core the same as ten years ago.
As for the Monroe Doctrine, I found it good enough with one remark - the desires and appetites must correlate with reality. The attempts not to let anyone into the Western hemisphere are ridiculous. The american bases protect the American interests in the former Soviet republics, despite all former Soviet doctrines. Therefore it must not be surprise, if Russian and Chinese bases will protect interests of those countries somethere despite old Monroe who created his doctrine when Europe collapsed and weakened in continental wars, Americans didn't put their nose to Ukraine and Caucasus and China was colony of the West. This doctrine worked somehow in time of Bipolar World and Cold War stand-off. But now it all is in the past.