John Samford, You did not get my point. My irony was about the recent Ukrainian president Yushchenko’s order to the Russian Black Sea fleet (which is renting the naval base in Sevastopol) to report to the Ukrainian authorities and to get permit each time when the fleet is going to leave the base. To obtain the permit, the fleet command, not later than in 72 hours must submit information about the purpose of the leave, the route, the armament and the crew(s) on the board(s). Russians are renting the base based on the Russia-Ukraine treaty effective till 2017. The treaty does not have such limitations. So, if Ukrainian fleet is going to enforce this order, there can be a few Ukrainian ship sunk by Russians. You may blah-blah about “Russian agressors” if it happened, but would it be right? Imagine Guantanamo. It is a port and some USA ships are there or visit that place regularly. How would it look if Cubans issued same kind of orders for the USA Navy?
Relations between Cuba and the USA have not been that nice like you present them. And certainly, not because the USA is a proponent of the peaceful co-existence with Cuba. The USA attacked Cuba in 1962 and it took the USSR involvement with middle range missiles, and the Cuban Missile Crisis to stop the USA from further attempts. To the USA honor, they have been keeping their promise not to attack Cuba given to the Soviets in 1963.
Possible attack on Ukraine by Russians? Everything is possible. But if Ukrainian authorities abandon their unfriendly anti-Russian rhetorics, if they respect the rights of their Russian speaking citizens to get education and information on their language, if they do not go to the NATO, and do not allow NATO forces on their territory, if they do not steal the gas Russia is pumping to the West Europe through their pipes, and if they pay their bills for gas, I do not see why they may be attacked.
