Russian warships will arrive in Havana next week, say Cuban officials citing 'friendly relations'

[Warpy]

6. NOt to quibble, but it's been 65 years

and all tjose anticommunist assholes who made such stupid decisions aren't safely dead yet. When they're not around to give interviews to the press on how we're all soft on the commies, maybe it will happen. I hope so.

They do have a tourist business, countries that are smarter than we are, like Canada and Mexico, established relations with them years ago. The tourist industry just isn't enough to make up for the loss of the sugar cane market when the USSR collapsed. Now Russia gets their sugar from sugar beets and Cuba was left with tourism and cigars and they really didn't have enough wealth to develop the former properly.