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<font size=4><b><a name="1"></a>Fidel again on the nuclear war nobody is
talking about <br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>Posted: 27 Jun 2010 09:59 PM PDT<br><br>
<b>Knowing the Truth in Time </b>-<i>
<a href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/reflexiones-fidel/2010/06/27/saber-la-verdad-a-tiempo/">
CubaDebate (español</a>)<br><br>
</i>Fidel Castro Ruz<br><br>
Translation: Machetera<br><br>
When writing each one of my previous Reflections, while a catastrophe for
humanity is rapidly approaching, my greatest concern has been to perform
the basic duty of informing our people.<br><br>
Today I’m calmer than I’ve been for 26 days. As things continue to
happen at short notice, I can reiterate and add to the reports presented
to Cuban and international opinion.<br><br>
Obama has promised to attend the World Cup quarter-finals on July 2nd, if
his country advances from the second round. He should know better
than anyone that these quarter-finals may not take place since very
serious events will take place before then, or at least he ought to know
that.<br><br>
On Friday, June 25th, an international news agency known for its close
attention to detail in its reports, published the declarations of the
“commander of the elite Navy corps of the Islamic Revvolutionary Guard,
General Ali Fadavi” warning “…that if the United States and its allies
inspect Iranian ships in international waters, they will receive a
response in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz."<br><br>
The information came from the Iranian <i>Mehr</i> news agency.<br><br>
The <i>Mehr</i> dispatch reported: “Fadavi added that the Navy of the
Revolutionary Guards has at its disposal hundreds of ships equipped with
missile launchers.”<br><br>
The information which emerged at practically the same time it was
published in <i>Granma</i>, or before, was on certain points practically
a carbon copy of the paragraphs from my Reflection, produced on June 24th
and published in <i>Granma</i> on Friday, the 25th.<br><br>
The coincidence can be explained by the basic use of logical reasoning
that I always apply. I don’t speak a word of Farsi.<br><br>
I don’t doubt in the least that as soon as the U.S. and Israeli warships
occupy their positions along with the rest of the U.S. military ships
located near the Iranian coastline and try to inspect the first merchant
ship from that country, a shower of missiles will be set off in all
directions. It will be the exact moment in which the terrible war
will begin. It’s impossible to predict how many ships will sink,
nor under which flag.<br><br>
The most important thing for our people is that they know the truth in
time.<br><br>
It doesn’t matter that by instinct, almost everyone, perhaps 99.9% of my
fellow countrymen, remain hopeful and agree with me in a sincere desire
to be mistaken. I have spoken with people in the closest circles
and have simultaneously received news from many noble, devoted and
dutiful citizens, who upon reading my Reflections do not challenge their
considerations in the least, but assimilate, believe and ingest the
reasoning I set forward, yet immediately dedicate their time to carrying
out the work to which their energies are devoted.<br><br>
That’s exactly what we wish for our countrymen. What would be worse
would be for then to suddenly be made aware of news of serious events,
without having heard any news whatsoever beforehand about such
possibilities, thereby falling into confusion and panic, something
undignified for as heroic a people as the Cubans who were on the brink of
being targeted for a massive nuclear attack in October of 1959, and never
wavered for a moment in carrying out their duties.<br><br>
While carrying out heroic internationalist missions, courageous
combatants and commanders of our Revolutionary Armed Forces were on the
verge of being victims of nuclear attacks against the Cuban troops who
were approaching the southern Angolan border, where the racist South
African troops had been displaced after the battle of Cuito Cuanavale,
and had entrenched themselves along the border with Namibia.<br><br>
The Pentagon, with the knowledge of the President of the United States,
supplied the racist South Africans with some 14 nuclear weapons, through
Israel, weapons that were more powerful than those dropped on the
Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as we’ve explained in other
Reflections.<br><br>
We are neither novices nor meddlers in this complicated matter.<br><br>
In the nuclear aftermath, what will happen in the rest of the Spanish
speaking Americas can be predicted.<br><br>
In such circumstances, there'll be no talk of capitalism or socialism;
only a stage of administering the goods and services available in this
part of the continent. Inevitably those who today head each country
will continue to govern, some of whom are very close to socialism and
others filled with euphoria by the opening of a world market that today
opens itself to fuels, uranium, copper, lithium, aluminum, iron and other
metals that today are being sent to the rich, developed countries that
will suddenly disappear.<br><br>
Abundant food supplies that are today being exported to this world market
will also disappear abruptly.<br><br>
In such circumstances, the most basic products required to live: food,
water, fuel and the resources of the hemisphere to the south of the
United States, are abundant enough to support a bit of civilization,
whose uncontrolled advances have led humanity to such a
disaster.<br><br>
There are, however, still many uncertainties. Will the two most
powerful nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, be able to abstain
from launching their nuclear weapons at one another? What is not in
doubt in the least is that from Europe, the nuclear weapons belonging to
the allies of the United States and Israel, Great Britain and France –
who enthusiastically supported the resolution that will inevitably
trigger the war which, for reasons already explained, will immediately go
nuclear – threaten Russian territory, although just like China, that
country has tried to avoid forceful measures and each of their
possibilities.<br><br>
The economy of the superpower will collapse like a house of cards.
U.S. society is the least prepared to support a catastrophe such as the
one the empire has created in the same territory where it was
born.<br><br>
We don’t know what the environmental effects will be of the nuclear
weapons that will inevitably explode in various parts of our planet, and
that, under the least serious scenario, will explode in
abundance.<br><br>
To conjecture a serious hypothesis would be pure science fiction on my
part.<br><br>
<br><br>
Fidel Castro Ruz<br>
June 27th, 2010<br>
2:15 p.m.<br><br>
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