Reflections by comrade Fidel
KNOWING THE TRUTH TIMELY
As I
was writing every one of my previous Reflections,
and a catastrophe was quickly zeroing in on humanity, my major concern was to
fulfill the primary duty to inform our people.
Today,
I feel more relax than 26 days ago. As the situation evolves, I can reiterate
and expand on the information to the national and international public.
Obama
has committed to attend the quarterfinals match on July 2, if his country’s
team makes it to that stage. He supposedly knows better than anyone that the
quarterfinals will not be contested because very serious developments will take
place before that; or at least he should know.
Last
Friday, June 25, an international press agency known for the attention to details
in its reports, published a statement by the “…Navy Commander of the elite
Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution General Ali Fadavi…,” warning
“…that if the United States and its allies inspect Iranian ships in
international waters ‘they will have their response in the Persian Gulf and the
Strait of Hormuz.’”
The
information was taken from the local news agency Mehr of
According
to the press dispatch, said news agency reported that “Fadavi added that ‘the
Navy of the Revolutionary Guardians currently has hundreds of vessels equipped
with missile launchers.’”
The
information, produced approximately at the same time of what Granma published
or perhaps before, seemed at some points an exact copy of the Reflections elaborated on Thursday June
24th and ran by that paper on Friday 25th.
The
coincidence can be explained by the simple use of a logical reasoning. I was
completely unaware of what the Iranian local agency had published.
I
have absolutely no doubt that as soon as the American and Israeli warships are
deployed –alongside the rest of the American military vessels positioned off
the Iranian coasts-- and they try to inspect the first merchant ship from that
country, there will be a massive launching of missiles in both directions. At
that moment exactly the terrible war will begin. It’s not possible to estimate
how many vessels will be sunk or from what country.
Knowing
the truth timely is the most important thing for our people.
It
doesn’t matter if almost everybody, I’d dare say 99.9% or more of my
compatriots, instinctively cling to hopes and agree with my sincere wishes to
be wrong. I have talked to people close to me, and I have also received news
from many noble, selfless and hardworking people who have read my Reflections and do not challenge my
considerations in the least but rather absorb, believe and swallow my reasoning
through a dry throat; however, they immediately go back to the tasks to which
they devote their energies.
That
is precisely what we expect of our compatriots. But it would be worse to
suddenly become aware of extremely gave events without having heard as much as
a news about such possibility. Then there would be confusion and panic, and
that would be unworthy of our heroic Cuban people, which was very close to
becoming the target of a massive nuclear strike on October 1962, and still did
not hesitate for a second in discharging its duty.
Our brave
combatants and the military chiefs of our Revolutionary Armed Forces taking
part in heroic internationalist missions were close to becoming the victims of
nuclear strikes against the Cuban troops deployed close to the Angolan south
border from where the South African racist forces --at the time positioned on
the Namibian border-- had been expelled after the battle of Cuito Cuanavale.
The
Pentagon, with the consent of the President of the
I am
neither a prophet nor a fortune teller. Nobody told me a word of what was to
happen. It has all been the result of what I today describe as a logical
reasoning.
We
are neither new to this complicated issue nor are we meddlesome.
It
is possible to predict what will happen in the rest of the Portuguese and
Spanish speaking
Under
such circumstances, it will not be possible to talk of capitalism or socialism.
A stage will open that will see the management of the available goods and
services in this part of the continent. 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.
An
abundance of food exported now to that world market will also disappear abruptly.
In
these circumstances, the most basic products needed for life: food, water,
fuels, and the resources found in the hemisphere south of the
Nevertheless,
there are still some uncertainties. Will the two mightiest nuclear powers, the
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 even though this country and China have done
everything within their capabilities to prevent the conflict.
The
economy of the superpower will fall to pieces like a house of cards. The American society is the least prepared to
endure a catastrophe like the one the empire has created in the same territory where
it started.
We
don’t know which will be the effect on the environment of the nuclear weapons
that will unavoidably explode in various parts of the world, and that in the
least serious variant will happen in abundance.
As
for me, to advance a hypothesis would be pure science fiction.
Fidel Castro Ruz
June 27, 2010
2:15 PM