Putin gives Obama ‘middle finger,’ strikes deal to reactivate spy base in Cuba

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Washington Times:

New sanctions imposed upon Russia aren’t deterring Vladimir Putin from reactivating an old Soviet-era spy base in Cuba that has been closed since January 27, 2002.

 

A deal has been struck between Russia and Cuba to open a signals intelligence facility in in Lourdes, just south of Havana. The base is just 155 miles off the U.S. coast.

 

“Lourdes gave the Soviet Union eyes in the whole of the western hemisphere … For Russia, which is fighting for its lawful rights and place in the international community, it would be no less valuable than for the USSR,” Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the former head of the nation’s foreign intelligence service, told the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Guardian reported Wednesday.

 

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Good job. This administration is taking us all the way back to Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis.