The US authorities will act decisively if the Russian Federation takes steps to deploy its forces in Latin America. National Security Assistant Jake Sullivan said this at a briefing at the White House.
The fact is that before that, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov, in an interview with RTVI, answering the question whether Russia is considering the possibility of deploying military infrastructure in Venezuela or Cuba, did not confirm anything and rule it out too, reports TASS.
In the end, Sullivan said: “If Russia moves in this direction, we will react decisively.”
In the early 1960s, after the US deployed its missiles in Turkey, the Soviet Union responded by deploying its own – in Cuba, and not only missiles. The so-called Caribbean Crisis began.
From the late 60s to 2002, a Soviet (later Russian) electronic intelligence center operated in Cuba. The Center played a key role in obtaining intelligence information during the Cold War.
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