Russia Seeks Access to Bases in Eight Countries for Its Ships and Bombers This was posted on Feb. 28. 2014 -- not today, but its interesting nonetheless.
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Russia says it is negotiating with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Algeria, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Vietnam and Singapore about access to facilities that can be used by its navy and strategic bombers.
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Russia is not looking to establish bases in those locations, but to reach agreement to use facilities there when required.
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The countries are all strategically located – in three leftist-ruled countries close to the U.S.; towards either end of the Mediterranean; in the Indian Ocean south of the Gulf of Aden; and near some of the world’s most important shipping lanes in the Malacca Strait and South China Sea.
A Russian spy ship has slipped into Havana for an unannounced visit, a day after the country's defense minister announced plans to expand Russia's worldwide military presence.
A Russian spy ship has slipped into Havana for an unannounced visit, a day after the country's defense minister announced plans to expand Russia's worldwide military presence.
Here in Venezuela people are up in arms about it, we do not want a Russian military base here, we're NOT HERE FOR MORE MESS, WE'RE ELBOW DEEP IN MESS, LEAVE OUR WIGS ALONE, PLEASE
They be tryin' it tho, we need to destroy Maduro before all hell breaks loose and the US thinks it's cute to scalp us bald
