Yeah 2014 after the Crimea invasion... DUUUUH.
So, what's the issue? NATO troops do the same in many countries under invite from the government. Russian troops were in the Donbass since 2014 illegally, under both International Law and the Minsk Agreements.
So Cuba as a sovereign nation can ask the Russians to install missiles in their country.
It's "official" the Mig-29 is the carrier of these missiles. Impressive but not really since the missile does all the work. What would be impressive is Aim-120s, Aim-9x and JDAMS on these migs.
Lol. No wonder Russian fanboys at russiandefense keep boasting that a few HiMARS have been destroyed.
Training soldiers and installing offensive nuke missiles is apples to oranges. If Ukraine was allowing a foreign nation to use their territory to host offensive strategic missiles 90 miles from Russian border I think the world would understand why Russia attacked Ukraine.So Cuba as a sovereign nation can ask the Russians to install missiles in their country.
Now that's apples and oranges. If NATO wanted to base nuclear missiles in Ukraine that would be different, however basing them in Ukraine would give little advantage over basing them in the Latvia, and none have been based there either. The likely response would be nuclear missiles in Kaliningrad anyway. Ukraine isn't much further from Moscow than Kaliningrad is from Berlin, and it's a lot further than Kaliningrad to Warsaw.So Cuba as a sovereign nation can ask the Russians to install missiles in their country.
The United States wants a space shield project in Europe, the Missile Defense, a national project later extended to its allies. When fully implemented, it will consist of warning satellites, a chain of ground-based radars (missile warning and tracking) and interceptors deployed on the ground, at sea and in space, to attack enemy missiles in the various phases of their trajectory. The interceptors would be deployed in Central Europe: Poland, the Czech Republic and if Ukraine joins Nato they will also be a prime location for these missiles.
But that wasn't the reason why Russia invaded Ukraine now was it?
