The Pentagon: Russia's ties with Latin America pose a "critical threat" to the US

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Moscow’s ties with three Latin American countries, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, could turn into a “critical threat” for the United States, reports RBC Statement by the head of the US Southern Command, Admiral Kurt Tidd.





The increasing role of Russia in the Western Hemisphere is of particular concern to us, given its intelligence and cyber capabilities, the desire to undermine international stability,
Tidd said at the Senate hearing.

He stressed that Russia is "a strategic rival who is actively seeking to destroy the US partnership with the countries of the region and undermine the influence of the United States there."

At the same time, in his opinion, Moscow’s close relations with three countries of the region - Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela - represent a special, “critical threat”.

Reliable relations with these three countries provide Russia with a regional platform aimed at objects and assets of the United States and its partners,
declared admiral.

In particular, he pointed out that these countries can be used by Moscow to obtain intelligence information.
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  1. +15
    16 February 2018 08: 36
    Belarus also has close ties with these countries. Especially with Venezuela.
    And do we threaten America?
    They would be better engaged in their own country, otherwise soon they will shoot each other in the USA themselves *.
    * - USA banned in Belarus
    1. +14
      16 February 2018 08: 41
      Quote: Thrall
      And do we threaten America?

      Naturally Colleague Yes America is threatened by the whole world. hi
      1. +14
        16 February 2018 08: 44
        Quote: vlad66
        America threatens the whole world

        What a hostile planet the Americans went to. We are evil, they will fly away from ussmile
        1. +7
          16 February 2018 08: 46
          I would have thrown myself off with money just to send them from the planet.
          1. +2
            16 February 2018 09: 48
            So we help them, we make engines, they still can’t make a ship standards in order to fly away.
        2. +1
          16 February 2018 09: 09
          There is another small country that is threatened by all neighbors without exception.
          The United States is much larger, but the one-on-one feeling that both there and in the United States and in this small country are all determined by the same.
          They work according to the same scheme - the maximum monstrous lie for any reason to blame the neighbor for all sins in order to obtain, as it were, the right to destroy him for self-defense. And save civilization, but how.
          Fascist Germany and Europe against the USSR are a prime example.
      2. +4
        16 February 2018 08: 58
        Quote: vlad66
        America is threatened by the whole world.

        Gaddafi threatened, Hussein ... Now Assad is threatening. And Cuba is threatening, with Venezuela, with their "advanced" technologies! Yes
        1. +8
          16 February 2018 09: 09
          Sanya hi even Antarctic penguins threaten laughing
          1. +5
            16 February 2018 09: 16
            The only hope ...
            1. +4
              16 February 2018 09: 21
              Quote: Logall
              The only hope ...

              and not only
          2. +2
            16 February 2018 09: 38
            Quote: pjastolov
            even Antarctic penguins threaten

            It is a pity, Maria Zakharova does not read our site and comments laughing
            1. +3
              16 February 2018 09: 42
              Quote: zhekazs
              It is a pity, Maria Zakharova does not read our site and comments

              Are you sure about this? laughing
      3. 0
        16 February 2018 09: 47
        Latin America is ripe for the construction of the Strait to them. Stalin on Russian technology. Only business and nothing personal. winked
      4. 0
        16 February 2018 10: 49
        Quote: vlad66
        America is threatened by the whole world.

        In light of the fact that America is very zealously guarding its national interests, especially at its borders, it is threatening. It is enough to recall how they once “put things in order” in Chile. Oh, if Russia as zealously guarded its vital space, and not squandered it under the head of such nits like Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
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        1. +2
          16 February 2018 08: 47
          just the same in this "stink" and the whole point. we can go further and, on a “rotational” basis (like NATO in eastern Europe), expand the presence of the CSTO.
    3. +1
      16 February 2018 08: 42
      that yes, the bald fox is right. the very threat to us is their base around us. so we would have to deploy a base in Cuba. even kill, I do not understand what prevents us from doing this?
      1. +1
        16 February 2018 08: 48
        But what's the point? medium-range missiles are prohibited by contract. short range barely barely hurt the uninhabited edge of Florida. it became impossible to collect intelligence after they introduced the encryption standard aes, and we didn’t get to intercept the communication of civil services, which is why Lourdes was shut down, it was as good as a goat's milk.
        1. +2
          16 February 2018 08: 56
          as for the missiles, so not single missiles, so to speak. encryption standards_ I wouldn’t be so categorical here. and in Cuba, chic airfields for reconnaissance of drones and aircraft flights along the Yankees. in the end the ocean is around, a couple, a trio of RTOs.
      2. +1
        16 February 2018 09: 50
        Give the submarine base in Cuba !!!
    4. +1
      16 February 2018 08: 43
      Well, the US presence in Europe we do not like the same, and they command there with might and main. And Germany is generally occupied by them there.
      1. +1
        16 February 2018 09: 38
        Quote: Evil543
        US presence in Europe we do not like the same
        Not only in Europe, but throughout the Eastern Hemisphere.
    5. 0
      16 February 2018 09: 20
      Quote: Thrall
      And do we threaten America?

      You, fellow countrymen, are associated with Russia, respectively, it is understood that you are our accomplices in threatening American "national" interests "...
    6. 0
      24 February 2018 22: 28
      US ties with Europe pose a critical threat to Russia. I am generally silent about Ukraine and Poland.
  2. +1
    16 February 2018 08: 41
    And their Vasya-Vasya with the Baltic dying does not bother us? What a blast!
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 08: 50
      among the Bolsheviks, not die, but die
      proud and slow baltic extinctions.
      there is the UAE, but there is a PV.
  3. 0
    16 February 2018 08: 41
    And the United States, that there are partners, I thought only vassals.
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 09: 20
      And vassals think they are partners. laughing
  4. +4
    16 February 2018 08: 41
    The increasing role of Russia in the Western Hemisphere is of particular concern to us, given its intelligence and cyber capabilities, the desire to undermine international stability,
    what do you do in geyrop and asia? this is normal? laughing
    1. +3
      16 February 2018 08: 48
      Volodya hi They can - they are the same "exceptional". wassat
      1. +2
        16 February 2018 09: 10
        Quote: bouncyhunter
        they are "exceptional"

        so I suggest - with the help of yellow stone to exclude them good
        1. +2
          16 February 2018 09: 15
          The idea is not new, which does not preclude its correctness! drinks
          1. +2
            16 February 2018 09: 25
            you can still do something illogical - and they will exclude themselves
            1. +2
              16 February 2018 09: 34
              Well, yes - the declarations are just in the spirit of Matrasia. fool lol
              1. +2
                16 February 2018 09: 35
                here I suggest - they need their processor to freeze laughing
                1. +2
                  16 February 2018 09: 37
                  Again they shed: "Russian hackers." Well, we don’t get used to it. soldier
                  1. +2
                    16 February 2018 09: 46
                    Quote: bouncyhunter
                    "Russian hackers"

                    sometimes you need to read the tablets, then they won’t hack
                    1. +1
                      16 February 2018 10: 43
                      Quote: pjastolov
                      sometimes you need to read the tablets, then they won’t hack


                      They read, and therefore sat down.
                      They have such a life (it is written in small letters)
  5. +2
    16 February 2018 08: 46
    could become a “critical threat” to the United States

    These states are strange - nobody has scared them yet, but they are already scared request
    1. +4
      16 February 2018 08: 52
      Volodya, salute! hi Heaped in advance in the port, so that later not to be late. lol
      But seriously, these tricks are encircling Russia from all sides and consider this the norm, while they themselves scream about the friendship of Russia with some countries not far from Matrasia. So for the sake of decency they would be silent in a rag - to us their "exclusivity" is deeply violet and speckled. Yes
      1. +3
        16 February 2018 09: 15
        Quote: bouncyhunter
        us their "exclusivity" deeply

        not really like that, Pasha hi
        1. +2
          16 February 2018 09: 18
          I have long considered Matrasia the fourth Reich. And about the vulnerability of enemy armored vehicles: MIKHAN has already laid out visual aids on the topic more than once. wink
          1. +2
            16 February 2018 09: 26
            and I’m even studying the javelin instruction laughing drinks
            1. +2
              16 February 2018 09: 32
              Quote: pjastolov
              I even study javelin instructions

              Trophy? wink lol
              1. +2
                16 February 2018 09: 34
                Quote: bouncyhunter
                Trophy?

                feel and send you a scan? laughing
                1. +2
                  16 February 2018 09: 35
                  If there are at least two trophies, it’s better in kind, but the scan will do for a start. Yes
                  1. +2
                    16 February 2018 09: 47
                    give out nima
                    Quote: bouncyhunter
                    If there are at least two trophies, it’s better in kind, but the scan will do for a start. Yes
                    I'll throw off the scan
      2. +1
        16 February 2018 09: 52
        Hello Pasha!
        these ushlopki encircle Russia from all sides

        Double standards have already become the norm in the states. They - it is possible for us - it is impossible! Looks like physics was badly taught: action is equal to counteraction wink
        1. +2
          16 February 2018 12: 28
          They do not teach physics: they believe that it does not help to cut grandmas. fool wink
          1. +1
            16 February 2018 14: 31
            Pasha, you know that ignorance of physics does not exempt from the laws of physics wink
            1. +2
              16 February 2018 19: 23
              Quote: pvv113
              ignorance of physics does not exempt from the laws of physics

              Ignorance of ballistics also does not save from a bullet in the forehead. belay
              1. +1
                17 February 2018 01: 59
                So we have reached a consensus wink
  6. +6
    16 February 2018 08: 47
    The southern command felt offended by the financing and decided to push. in general - give me money, otherwise this is also a Russian threat .. winked
  7. +1
    16 February 2018 08: 48
    "Russia's growing role in the Western Hemisphere is of particular concern to us, given its intelligence and cyber capabilities, and its desire to undermine international stability." --- That the dream was gone and appetite! You will now sit in a frying pan. You are in Ukraine, and we are closer to you in America.. tongue
  8. +1
    16 February 2018 08: 50
    We have not yet delivered tactical weapons to our friends.
    Let them feel in our shoes .... I'm afraid their heart can’t stand it.
  9. +5
    16 February 2018 08: 55
    And if you change some words? A very interesting story will turn out. “The US’s growing role in the Eastern Hemisphere is of particular concern to us, given its intelligence and cyber capabilities, and its desire to undermine international stability. ... Reliable relations with these three countries (Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia) provide the USA with a regional platform aimed at the objects and assets of RUSSIA and their partners. Lavrov declared in the State Duma. "
    1. 0
      16 February 2018 09: 53
      Quote: soldat-tv
      And if you change some words?

      Witty good
      But blame each other.
  10. +1
    16 February 2018 09: 14
    Poor States! Everything is dangerous for you in your sore imagination, although the main danger to the whole world is you.
  11. 0
    16 February 2018 09: 23
    critical threat the very existence of the USA
  12. +1
    16 February 2018 09: 40
    efforts to undermine international stability
    It is no longer even surprising that the admiral of the country, which is only engaged in this, speaks of undermining international stability. That means more connections are good, strong and mutually beneficial in Latin America to spite the adversary.
  13. 0
    16 February 2018 09: 45
    oh well what a pity that I can not express everything that the soul asks !!!! they are worried. Or maybe get out of the Baltic states, Poland, Ukraine. And then we will think about why we need Latin America.
  14. 0
    16 February 2018 09: 54
    The day before yesterday they were threatened by children, yesterday new missiles, and today communications!)
    Every day, a new threat!))

    The military budget needs to be raised somehow)
  15. 0
    16 February 2018 10: 57
    Yes, for you, our children in kindergarten will soon be a threat.
  16. 0
    16 February 2018 11: 12
    Not “international stability,” but the Phashington hegemony.
  17. +1
    16 February 2018 11: 46
    If to quote every American moron in uniform, there will not be enough sites, blogs and social networks.
  18. 0
    16 February 2018 12: 11
    that these countries can be used by Moscow to obtain intelligence

    Why so small? You can live up to our missiles.
  19. 0
    16 February 2018 16: 05
    and why only "for intelligence"? But what about the base of the Navy, airfields and missiles? sixty thousand mtrs? the admiral lacked imagination, or is it even scary to say such a thing?
  20. 0
    16 February 2018 20: 44
    Topol fields with 10k to sell to North Korea with goals already achieved, can calm
  21. 0
    17 February 2018 02: 26
    Stupid ... Cuba, the "island of Freedom", well, yes, Florida and so on are close, but times are not the same as those under the Corn. Nicaragua ... Even closer, but there were no bananas of theirs in our stores, and never will be. Venezuela - 4000% of inflation, heavy sulfur heavy oil, which (by and large) is needed only for great need ... No, by golly, they are stupid!
    In particular, he pointed out that these countries can be used by Moscow to obtain intelligence information.
    This is clear to Babe Nure from Zadrischenka. And completely without any posts and corresponding salaries. And with the pension, with the expectation that Russia needs Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. And a hundred more parasites.
  22. 0
    17 February 2018 10: 23
    The animal made vyser.
  23. 0
    17 February 2018 10: 28
    United States itself pose a critical threat to all of humanity, this is the new Hitler