Cuba military

Thanks for the link.

MG it does not look so good..

Fighter/Ground Attack:
34 Mig29/Mig-29UB *Fulcrum
20 Mikoyan MiG 23BN Flogger-F
18 Mikoyan MiG 23Ms* Flogger-E
30 Mig-21F-13 Fishbed-C
35 Mig-21PFM* Fishbed-F
35 Mig-21MF Fishbed-J
80 Mig-21bis* Fishbed-N
20 Mig-19 Farmer B
18 Mig-17F Fresco-C
 
Unless Cuba posses some Nuclear Weapon from the old USSR days then They realy pose no threats to America, if America wanted to they could take the Cuban Military out with little problem.
 
um...apparently the threat they pose against the US is bringing in illegal goods against any embargos that we have going.

I think the US is being a little childish about the whole thing. We initially went into Havana to turn it into the next Las Vegas. When it happened the US business men got a bit carried away by protituting pre-teens to American politics and traveller (JFK made a few trips to Havana). They didn't take into account any of the locals when it came to building casinos or hotels, and the country was going down the drain.

When Castro came into power he kicked every US business man out and said anything you have here is now Cuban property. The US got pissed off because they wanted money for all the crap they left there. So until Cuba pays that off, the US won't lift any type of embargo they have. The likelyhood of that "debt" being paid off isn't looking so good.
 
Castro didn't nationalize U.S. business intrests until U.S. Oil companies in Cuba refused to refine Soviet crude oil for the Cuban Goverment.
 
egoz said:
We initially went into Havana to turn it into the next Las Vegas. When it happened the US business men got a bit carried away by protituting pre-teens to American politics and travelleres (JFK made a few trips to Havana).
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Redneck said:
egoz said:
We initially went into Havana to turn it into the next Las Vegas. When it happened the US business men got a bit carried away by protituting pre-teens to American politics and travelleres (JFK made a few trips to Havana).
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Do not make any more accusations without providing sources.
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There were several casinos that were jointly owned by certain American Gentlemen with connections to Certain "FAMILIES" and Senor Batista. But the majority of the interests were Sugar and Fruit companies.
 
I was referring more to the implication that there was institutionalized child prostitution by American businessmen.
 
There is a book on the the entire US Government involment in Cuba from Meyer Lansky's point of view, it's called "Little Man." It discusses all kinds of stuff that the US kept under wraps because they knew and understood it would have been looked badly upon by the international community. It will cover the child prostitution thing, along with a few other topics I'm sure you won't find elsewhere.
 
Here is an updated cuban military website. Theres alot of information.

http://www.geocities.com/urrib2000/





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M41 captured by cuban army.
 
The threat isn't so much direct action against the US, but against it's allies, especially in the modern era we just entered.... the war against terrorism. Cuba just a couple years back was able to project it's military into Africa as well as South America. Will it every establish wold communism.... not in this century... I doubt if Fidel even gives a damn about that stuff anymore. But he can still do a potential amount of damage via support operations as well as training for certain factions.

But this is for now mere potential but not so far flund with the current leadership downthere in cigarland. What the US and Cuba needs more than anything else is a Just Cause for peace, Fidel has tried it through economic insentive to American bussinessmen, but American's seem a bit apprehensive givin his history. Best if he does and someone with a better track record takes over.

A much more important question.... Is Cuba ready for a lift of the embargos and American tourism, cultural, and ideological views?
 
Well I doubt we mind the ban. They're the ones loosing out on the economic side of things. But I don't see them just giving in so easily because there is so much hostility between the two nations. That actually goes for both sides.
 
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