First of all, I went through this crap again, double-checked again against the
Havana Times link posted by CU4, and it is definitely a terrible translation, grammatical errors abound as well as obvious translation errors. Still, even allowing for bad translation, who is going to make sense out of this:
<< . . . Certainly, every country will continue being ruled by those
who head the governments today, some very close to socialism and others euphoric over
the opening of the world market to fuels, uranium, copper, lithium, aluminum, iron and other
metals being sent to the developed and rich countries today
that will suddenly disappear.>>
What is going to "suddenly disappear?" The "fuels, uranium, copper, etc." or the "developed and rich countries?" How are either of them going to suddenly disappear? This does seem to be nonsense any way you look at it. My admiration and respect for Fidel are immense, but IMHO, maybe he has been engaged for too long in this business of politics and is overdue for retirement.
<<An abundance of food exported now to that world market will also disappear abruptly.>>
Same questions: how? the food will disappear? or the transport of the food will fail? or both? from nuclear radiation following nuclear war? That's just crazy.
<<In these circumstances, the most basic products needed for life: food, water, fuels, and
the resources found in the hemisphere south of the United States will suffice to preserve
some of the civilization whose unbridled advance has led humanity into such a disaster.>>
The U.S. will have to invade Latin America?
<<Nevertheless, there are still some uncertainties. Will the two mightiest nuclear powers,
the United States and Russia, be able to refrain from using their nuclear weapons against
each other?>>
If Russia is going to fight the U.S., over Iran, why did they cave in to the U.S. and Israel and refuse to supply the anti-missile systems that they'd already sold to Iran? That sale and Russia's reneging on it aren't even mentioned by Fidel.
<<There is no doubt, however, that from Europe the nuclear weapons of Great Britain and France,
allied with the United States and Israel, --the same that enthusiastically imposed the resolution
that will inevitably unleash the war, which for the abovementioned reasons will immediately become
nuclear-- are threatening the Russian territory>>
My point exactly, except for the inevitability of the war - - why don't the fucking Russians realize (a) that the U.S. threatens
them; (b) that the U.S. can never be trusted (see the accounts of the "fall" of communism and the U.S.S.R. according to which the U.S. promised never to move into Russia's backyard if the existing system were abandoned;) and (c) that it's now in their interest to stand with Iran against the U.S.A. regardless of immediate consequences (see Churchill's brilliant quote that "Each one feeds the crocodile, hoping that the crocodile will eat him last.")
<<even though this country and China have done everything within their capabilities to prevent the conflict.>>
Now of course that is not literally true. Neither one has offered Iran the security of a military mutual-defence pact and neither one has stationed their missile-defence forces on Iranian soil. At most, they have moderately delayed the Americans' plans for Iran or (if the plans are for intimidation only) they have made America's threats less credible.
