On February 13, 2015, the Cuban Government returned a missing U.S. missile. The missile was originally sent to Europe for training but was inadvertently shipped to Cuba. The missile was in Cuba since 2014. During this time the Cuba U.S. relations just began to reopen and the U.S. had been trying to get the missile since the two countries had been communicating. The new cooperation between the Cuban and American Governments turned a crisis into a small confusion. The inactive "Hellfire" missile is an anti-tank missile used by the U.S. military currently for anti-terrorist operations. This missile contained an incomplete guidance section and was not fitted with a warhead, fusing system rocket monitor or operational seeker, all components needed to aim and hit a target.
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My Opinion: I think this act of returning the missile shows great promise with our relationship with Cuba. Though I believe it took to long to have the missile returned it still shows good progress. I think that soon the U.S. and Cuba will be allies and have nothing but peace.
Questions:
1. How do you think this affects our relationship with Cuba?
2. Do you think the Cuban Government went through this missile to find out what the U.S. has for weapons?
Replies
Well done! You replied to as many as you could.
I believe our relationship with Cuba is getting better and better. But still not the greatest. I think they probably tried to look through it and examine it but, I don't think they got that much information off of the missile.
I agree that our relationship is getting much better but I don't think were are close enough to really consider each other allies. I really think that the Cuban Government went through the missile and took out whatever info they could find.
I think that our relationship with Cuba is still a little rough but is slowly progressing. I think in the future we will have a friendly relationship with them. I think that it took awhile for Cuba to return the missile because they were scared, but as a small country completely surrounded by water, who wouldn't be worried?
I definitely agree with you on both points. I think in the near future Cuba and the U.S. will be close allies and we will have fully opened the communication with them. I think that ti makes sense that they were scared because being that close to a world super power would be a very threatening thing.