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A pair of oxen and a cart

What will Washington and Moscow make of the bovine logistics introduced by Havana into its “war of all the people”?

By Yunior García Aguilera (14ymedio)

HAVANA TIMES – The Cuban regime’s social media networks have once again gifted us one of those images conceived somewhere between parody, mockery, and classic Cuban irreverence. In videos of defense preparations circulating this Saturday, several half-starved uniformed men deploy around a rural house, crouch down, take positions, and simulate a military operation with the seriousness of people who believe they are participating in the prelude to the Normandy landings. Only, in the middle of the scene, a camouflaged cart bursts in, pulled by a pair of oxen, as if it were some secret, decisive, and impregnable weapon.

Somewhere in a Pentagon office, one imagines US generals watching the videos in silence—first bewildered, then rewinding them to make sure they are not looking at a meme and finally asking themselves whether this is a military exercise or a Gaesa agricultural fair. Perhaps one of them concluded that there is no need to deploy drones, satellites, or precision missiles against an adversary that still seems to be fighting its battles in the Middle Ages.

On the other side, it is also easy to imagine the discomfort of Havana’s allies. In Moscow, perhaps someone looked away so as not to admit that, after sending weapons, oil, and........

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