AP: Russia threatens troops in Cuba, Venezuela if tensions mount re: Ukraine.

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[PortTack]

1. Pootie has got nothing else

[Red Mountain]

2. Go ahead

We can handle it.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Yep. Not sure Russia can, though.

How many troops would he have to pull out of Afghanistan, now that we're no longer there, distracting the Taliban and others for them and China? He has his hands full there, as it is. He'd have to pull troops out of Kazakhstan, too. I assume Biden will call his bluff again.

[former9thward]

10. Where is the evidence Russia has troops in Afghanistan?

[GoCubsGo]

11. No troops there, at the moment.

They're in all of the various "stans" that border it, though. They don't want Afghanistan becoming a base for attacks on them and their Central Asian territories by extremist groups like ISIS and the Taliban. Our presence kept those groups occupied, an out of their hair. They don't any longer, much to Russia's chagrin. It's just a matter time before they send in troops, as they tries to reinsert their tentacles further into the region. Right after we pulled out of Afghanistan, they were alreadyholding high-profile military exercises on the border in Tajikistan.

[former9thward]

15. I don't believe they have anything to fear from Afghanistan.

That was not the reason they originally went in there. The Taliban have enough to do trying to create a stable nation without trying to attack Russia. Whatever happens in Ukraine, Afghanistan will have little to do with it. They have plenty of troops for Cuba if they decide to do that.

[GoCubsGo]

17. Time will tell. nt

[Budi]

3. Putin makes his move with a warring & weakened US

Putin set the division & chaos in the US in motion, now for the sabre rattling & threats to expand his dominance.

He needs to be stopped.
Biden has stated he will crush RU's already fragile economy. Perhaps these latest threats are Putin's last gasp before his country's economy disintegrates

[Grasswire2]

5. yep

The buck for our troubles stops there at Putin's desk.

[Bobstandard]

4. Both countries could use the money

I bet Russian soldiers are fighting each other for a chance to go to Cuba.

And for the record, we should normalize relations with Cuba. We’ve screwed them over long enough

[sarisataka]

6. Um, ok

Someone tell him Red Dawn was a movie

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Oh good grief. It's not the 1950s/1960s. Grow up and get a pair, will you, mr. putin?

[The Magistrate]

8. The Logistics Of That Ought To Be Interesting, Sir

It's not a threat, it's a noise.

[pecosbob]

12. Bluster...if he moves an armored division into Western Ukraine wake me up

[EX500rider]

13. Oh NO! Russian troops on a island or a country 2,500 miles from the US border!

What would we do?!?! lol

[Azathoth]

14. I think we need to give up on Ukraine joining NATO

There's no downside in this for Putin. The only thing he really cares about is preventing an enormous NATO country located right on Russia's border. "Heightened tensions" with the US don't bother him, either strategically or politically, and I doubt he cares whether Russia gets control of Ukraine outright, or just vandalizes and amputates parts of it till it becomes an international basketcase.

[Hekate]

16. Vlad really longs for the good old days, doesn't he? nt