A fleet of Russian naval warships is now in Cuba, which the U.S. is not considering as a threat despite Russia’s rising tensions with the West. Jackson Proskow looks at how Moscow is justifying the stopover, why Washington is not worried, and how Russia’s relationship with Cuba has persisted since the Cold War.
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