{"id":195188,"date":"2008-07-24T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/24\/cuba-playing-russian-bomber-rumor-close-to-the-vest\/"},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T22:34:00","slug":"cuba-playing-russian-bomber-rumor-close-to-the-vest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/24\/cuba-playing-russian-bomber-rumor-close-to-the-vest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Playing Russian Bomber Rumor Close to the Vest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel Castro wrote an online column saying that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSN2346531520080724\">Raul did very well keeping a dignified silence<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both Russia and Cuba have everything to gain from ambiguity, and so I think that they will continue to be ambiguous.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s part of Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s idea behind the hole &#8220;talk softly&#8221; foreign relations.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that the rumor is not about a permanent base, just a refueling base, but that would still give NORAD fits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fidel Castro wrote an online column saying that, &#8220;Raul did very well keeping a dignified silence.&#8221; Both Russia and Cuba have everything to gain from ambiguity, and so I think that they will continue to be ambiguous. That&#8217;s part of Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s idea behind the hole &#8220;talk softly&#8221; foreign relations. I would note that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1068,1006,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-latin-america","category-military","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}