{"id":245441,"date":"2016-05-23T18:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-russia-have-reason-to-fear\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:33:42","slug":"does-russia-have-reason-to-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-russia-have-reason-to-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Russia Have Reason to Fear?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exclusive:<\/strong> NATO is putting an anti-missile base in Romania and brushing aside Russia\u2019s fears, but \u2013 over the decades \u2013 the U.S. has reacted furiously to the possibility of nearby foreign military bases, recalls James W Carden.<\/p>\n

By James W Carden<\/p>\n

In April 1970, at what was roughly the halfway point in the 40-year Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Richard Nixon\u2019s Nation Security Adviser Henry Kissinger thought he smelled a rat. Kissinger told an incredulous Nixon that the Soviets were stirring up trouble in the Middle East, attempting to provoke a war between the Israelis, Syrians and Jordanians in order to distract the United States from what it was really up to: building a naval base at Cienfuegos Bay in Cuba.<\/p>\n

Nixon\u2019s Chief of Staff, H.R. \u201cBob\u201d Haldeman, recounts in his diaries that: \u201cOn September 18 we had received word that the Soviets were building a submarine base in Cienfuegos Bay, Cuba.\u201d By Sept. 24 word had leaked to the press and that same day Nixon and Kissinger, according to Haldeman, \u201cgave [Soviet Ambassador Anatoly] Dobrynin an ultimatum and over the next few weeks\u2026the Soviets backed down and abandoned the base.\u201d<\/p>\n

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