A Russian Naval Task Force will be visiting Cuba this month.\u00a0 During the Cold War, Russian long-range bombers and naval vessels routinely visited Cuba, but since those times, the visits have been few.<\/p>\n
The naval task force is rather modest<\/a>, a frigate (a small-er ocean-going surface warship), a nuclear submarine, a tanker, and a large tug.\u00a0 Cuban officials said the ships are not armed with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n The frigate and submarine combined can carry up to 80 Zircon hypersonic missiles between them, which at the Zircon\u2019s maximum known range of 620 miles could hit a U.S. target in less than eight minutes.\u00a0 They could simultaneously devastate the two major U.S. Navy East Coast bases of Norfolk and Mayport with no notice.<\/p>\n\n The Russian Force is being trivialized by the Biden Team.\u00a0 The Russian Naval Force was, \u201cnotable but not concerning\u201d<\/a> according to two, Biden Officials.\u00a0 The officials also said that the deployment was possibly a message from Russian President Vladimir Putin who stated that Moscow may take \u201casymmetrical steps\u201d elsewhere in the world in response to President Biden\u2019s decision to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike inside Russia.<\/p>\n Concurrent to the Russian deployment to Cuba, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be conducting the largest naval exercise ever in the Baltics, right off the Russian city of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n Forgotten over the Russian naval task force is last year\u2019s announcement that China was opening a spy base<\/a> in Cuba and establishing an enduring military training presence<\/a>.\u00a0 When China has established overseas bases like Djibouti in Africa, they have placed missiles to protect their facilities.<\/p>\n The agreement from the Cuban Missile Crisis<\/a> was that Russia would remove offensive missile in Cuba in return for an American promise not to invade Cuba.\u00a0 China was not part of this agreement and times have changed.<\/p>\n The meaning of the term \u201coffensive\u201d has become a bit blurred when discussing missiles.\u00a0 Chinese S-300\/S-400 missiles may already be in Cuba to protect their spy base and military training presence.<\/p>\n The challenge with the S-300\/S-400 missiles is that although titled as air defense missiles, they are capable of being used as surface-to-surface missiles like the old American Nike Missile System<\/a> a capability not well known, even by American forces.\u00a0 A disturbing bonus feature of the S-400 is that it is nuclear capable<\/a> in the Russian version, which is the same version the Chinese have.<\/p>\n\n The American Intelligence Community (IC), despite their immense capabilities, do not have the resources to collect AND analyze all information from all sources on all topics.\u00a0 Intelligence Community Directive 204<\/a> establishes the priority of collection and analysis \u2013 and establishes a cut line of what will be analyzed and actioned.\u00a0 If a topic is below the cut line \u2013 that means intelligence may be collected, but no one is analyzing and actioning what is collected.\u00a0 Using an Intelligence Community expression, I have \u201clow confidence\u201d that the IC has placed Chinese presence in Cuba above the cut line.\u00a0 I also have \u201clow confidence\u201d that the average IC analyst understands that the Chinese S-400 is capable of striking ground (and air) targets up to Orlando and may be nuclear capable like its Russian counterpart.<\/p>\n The Biden Team seems un-interested in countering Chinese and Russian adventurism in the Americas.\u00a0 Department of Homeland Security Mayorkas has been to the migrant camps in Panama and done nothing about the Chinese Special Operators proliferating the Southern Border invasion.\u00a0 General Laura Richardson<\/a> of Southern Command in Miami has been clear about the Chinese threat but has been ignored and under-resourced.<\/p>\n\n Russia and China both support the aggression of Venezuela against next door Guyana, especially the prized offshore oil fields off Guyana.\u00a0 The Russian Naval Force and the possible Chinese missile presence in Cuba could be a powerful covering force to any Venezuelan move on Guyana.<\/p>\n The Biden Team has assured media<\/a> that six U.S. Navy ships are shadowing the Russian Naval Task force including three Arleigh Burke Destroyers.\u00a0 This means these are six ships from the stressed and undersized U.S. Navy that have been pulled from other missions to cover this pop-up contingency.<\/p>\n Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, is the singular person under President Biden making these complex national security decisions that have possible grave consequences.<\/p>\n His only real-life experience was running the \u201cRussia Russia Russia\u201d election interference operation for Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 The Biden Team has been dismissive of Chinese influence operations in the Americas, ignored General Richardson\u2019s clear statements of concern, and seems un-interested in asserting the Monroe Doctrine.\u00a0 But Jake Sullivan has no problem with green-lighting Ukraine\u2019s use of American missiles to strike into Russia.<\/p>\n\n It is of low likelihood that the IC is paying attention to the Chinese presence in Cuba and if they did possibly notice the placement of S-300\/400 missiles in Cuba, likely deemed them defensive even though these missiles can barrage ground targets in Florida up to Orlando.<\/p>\n The fact that the Russian S-400 system is nuclear capable, and that China is not a signatory to any nuclear weapons treaty (other than the Space Treaty) is likely not known by the typical IC analyst busy spying on the Trump campaign.\u00a0 Blinken promised to bring the adults into the room, he was right \u2013 they will there with #47 in January.<\/p>\n The post EXCLUSIVE: Are We Already in the Middle of a Second Cuban Missile Crisis?<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Russian Naval Task Force will be visiting Cuba this month.\u00a0 During the Cold War, Russian long-range 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\u201cLow confidence\u201d the Intelligence Community is even tracking this issue<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
Chinese and Russian Spies and Military running roughshod over the Monroe Doctrine<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n
None of this would be or will be happening under President Trump<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n