[THS] Fidel Castro: Warning Of War

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Warning Of War

Discovering The Truth In Time
(Taken from CubaDebate)

By Fidel Castro

June 29, 2010 "Granma" -- WHEN I was writing one of my previous reflections, as a
disaster for humanity was rapidly approaching, my greatest concern was to fulfill the
elemental duty of informing our people.

Today I feel calmer than 26 days ago. As things continue happening in the short
term, I can reiterate and enrich information to national and international public
opinion.

Obama promised to attend the quarter-final game on July 2 if his country won in the
second round. He must know, more than anybody, that those quarter finals could not
take place if extremely grave events should happen beforehand, or at least he should
know that.

Last Friday, June 25, an international news agency of known attention to detail in the
information that it provides, published statements from "
the naval commander of
the elite corps of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, 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.’"

The information was taken from the national Mehr news agency of Iran.

That agency, according to the cable, communicated: "Fadawi added that ‘the Navy
of the Revolutionary Guard currently has hundreds of vessels fitted with missile
launchers.’"

The information, written almost at the same time as the one published in Granma, or
perhaps before, seemed at certain points a carbon copy of the paragraphs of the
Reflection written on Thursday, June 24 and published in that newspaper on Friday
25th.

The coincidence can be explained by the elemental use of logical reasoning that I
always apply. I was not aware of one word of what was published by the national
Iranian agency.

I do not harbor the slightest doubt that as soon as the warships of the United States
and Israel take up their positions – together with the rest of the U.S. military vessels
located in the vicinity of the Iranian coasts – and attempt to inspect that country’s
first merchant ship, a rain of missiles will be unleashed in both directions. That will be
the precise moment when that terrible war will begin. It is not possible to foresee
how many ships will be sunk nor of what ensign.

Finding out the truth in time is the most important thing for our people.

It doesn’t matter that by natural instinct, almost everybody; it could be said 99.9% or
more of my compatriots, are conserving hope and agreeing with me with the sincere
desire of being wrong. I have talked with people in my closest circles and, at the
same time, have received news from so many noble, altruistic and conscientious
citizens who, on reading my Reflections, do not contest my considerations in the
least, but assimilate, believe and instantly swallow the reasoning that I expound but
who, nevertheless, immediately give their attention to fulfilling their work to which
they devote their energies.

That is precisely what we desire of our compatriots. The worst things is to suddenly
become aware of news of extremely grave events, without having heard any news
whatsoever of such a possibility beforehand; then confusion and panic spreads,
something that would be unworthy of a heroic people like the Cubans, who were at
the point of being the target of a massive nuclear attack in October 1962, and did not
hesitate for an instant to fulfill their duty.

During their undertaking of heroic internationalist missions, valiant combatants and
chiefs of our Revolutionary Armed Forces were at the point of becoming the victims
of nuclear attacks on the Cuban troops who were approaching the southern border
with Angola, from where the racist South African forces had been evicted after the
battle of Cuito Cuanavale, entrenching themselves on the border with Namibia.

With the knowledge of the U.S. president, the Pentagon supplied the South African
racists via Israel with approximately 14 nuclear weapons, more powerful than those
launched on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as we have explained in
other reflections.

I am not a prophet or a fortune teller. Nobody said a single word to me about what
was going to happen; all of it is the fruit of what today I am describing as logical
reasoning.

We are not novices nor are we interfering in this complicated subject.

In the nuclear post-crisis, it can be augured what will occur in the rest of Ibero-
American speaking America.

In such circumstances, one cannot talk of capitalism or socialism. Only that a stage of
the administration of goods and services available in this part of the continent will
open up. Inevitably, each country will continue to be governed by those who are
currently leading the government, a number of them very close to socialism and
others full of euphoria at the prospect of a world market now opening for fuel,
uranium, copper, lithium, aluminum, iron and other metals that are currently being
sent to the developed and rich countries in that world market, which will suddenly
disappear.

Abundant foodstuffs currently being exported to that world market will also abruptly
disappear.

In such circumstances, the most basic products required in order to live: foodstuffs,
water, fuels and the resources of the hemisphere to the south of the United States,
are there in abundance for maintaining a little bit of civilization, the uncontrolled
advances of which have led humanity to such a disaster.

However, some things are still very unclear at the present moment; can the two most
powerful nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, abstain from using their
nuclear weapons against one another?

What remains in no doubt whatsoever is that, from Europe, the nuclear weapons of
Britain and France, allies of the United States and Israel – and which enthusiastically
imposed the resolution that will inevitably unleash war, and a war that, given the
reasons explained, will immediately become a nuclear war – are a threat to Russian
territory, although that country, just like China, has tried to avoid such an outcome as
far as the strengths and possibilities of each one allow.

The economy of the superpower will collapse like a house of cards. The society of the
United States is one which is the least prepared to endure a disaster like the one
created by the empire in the very territory from where it set out.

We do not know what might be the environmental effects of the nuclear weapons
that will inevitably explode in various parts of our planet, something which, in the less
grave variant, is going to happen in profusion.

To venture any hypothesis would be pure science fiction on my part.

Fidel Castro Ruz - June 27, 2010 - 2:15 p.m.