Moscow, Jan 31 - The Vice President of the Federation Council of Russia (the upper chamber of the Parliament), Konstantin Kosachev, today described as absurd the alleged threats to the United States coming from Cuba.
“Declaring the situation around Cuba as an 'unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security' of the United States and proclaiming a state of emergency might seem curious in any other case,” the senator wrote on his Telegram channel.
In this regard, he added that the White House's arguments are hardly credible, considering the richest and most armed country on the planet is confronting a small island with a population of a few million inhabitants, which has for decades been the target of threats by Washington.
Kosachev expressed his conviction that it is clear that Havana poses no threat to the northern nation in any way; however, "the actions of the U.S. authorities over the years have been hostile and are now especially severe," he emphasized.
In the senator's opinion, with his decree, Trump gives himself and his ministers a free hand to primarily apply measures against third countries that supply Cuba with energy, food, and other vital products, knowing that the Caribbean island currently suffers a serious shortage of these resources.
“The reasons given to declare the emergency are absolutely absurd: Havana’s cooperation with ‘hostile states.’ Under this ‘article,’ most countries on the planet could be accused,” the parliamentarian added.
Regarding this, he argued that the alleged links between Cuba and the Palestinian Hamas movement and the Lebanese Shia Hizbullah movement “are in no way proven; that is, it is a completely fabricated argument, just like the category of ‘involvement in drug trafficking’ attributed to Venezuela’s leadership.”
Kosachev also stressed that the United States takes advantage of the difficulties, largely created by itself, to achieve a change of power in Cuba, using the excuse that the island’s leaders are responsible for the current situation.
However, the senator emphasized that the White House makes no mention of the more than six decades of commercial, economic, and financial blockade faced by the largest of the Antilles, which “has deprived Cuba of one trillion dollars in national wealth according to official sources,” he underscored.
In response to this new offensive, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated yesterday that “the oil blockade against his nation evidences the fascist, criminal, and genocidal nature of a clique that has hijacked the interests of the American people and intends to strangle the island’s economy,” referring to the ruling elite in the United States.
