A message?

For four days, an American nuclear submarine visited the United States military base, in Cuba, Guantanamo Bay. The Chancellor of the island, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, released an official statement: “ The submarine’s presence there (at the base) raises the question of what military acts the United States is doing in the most peaceful regions of the world.” Parrilla also noted in his official statement that the United States was trying to send a message with the submarine’s presence in Guantanamo. Parrilla, like others in the Cuban government, said that the base was illegal.

The Cuban regime talks of peace and illegal actions, but over the years, the Castro regime has supported the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuban soil, sent incursions into South American and African countries, supported the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, and now, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As for the “illegal” Guantanamo base, a quick dive into Cuba’s history shows otherwise. The Cuban senate and president signed the convention to establish an American military enclave in 1903. In addition, the Cuban authorities have not tried to appeal to the United Nations or International Criminal Court to try to remove the base.

Given the Cuban government’s open support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it can be inferred the kind message the US was trying to send.