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By Carlos Alberto Montaner

What’s going on is very strange. According to an American dictum, one does not change horses in midstream. According to the analysis of Politico – an online portal that is much closer to the Democrats than to the Republicans – the recent announcement of a change in strategy by Joe Biden in his perception of Cuba and Venezuela, means that he is giving up the next election in Florida. Compromising with these two dictatorships means leaving the way clear for the Republicans, as US senator Bob Menéndez and Florida senator Annette Taddeo, both from the Democratic Party, complain.

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Por Carlos Alberto Montaner

Es muy extraño lo que sucede. De acuerdo con un dictum gringo no se cambia de cabalgadura en medio de un río. Según el análisis de Político -un portal que está mucho más cerca de los demócratas que de los republicanos-, el reciente anuncio de un cambio de estrategia de Joe Biden en su percepción de Cuba y Venezuela, quiere decir que da por perdida la próxima elección en Florida. Contemporizar con esas dos dictaduras es dejarle el camino despejado a los republicanos, como se quejan el senador federal Bob Menéndez, nada menos que presidente en el senado del Comité que supervisa ese tema específico, y la senadora estatal Annette Taddeo, ambos del Partido Demócrata.

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By Carlos Alberto Montaner

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave the sensational news. On Wednesday 11, he traveled to Sweden and Finland and signed mutual support agreements with both countries. That support includes war, in which the British are great experts.

The ‘all for one and one for all’ works again as in the books of The Three Musketeers. Russia is not mentioned, but it is evident that, in the minds of all well-informed people, there is the news that these two countries wanted to join NATO, but Russia came out with the insanity of considering the request to join the defense organization as a casus belli.

Moscow could have chosen, for example, to congratulate itself because “both nations were rejecting the temptation to build nuclear weapons,” for which they had the necessary talent and money. Unfortunately, Vladimir Putin preferred to resort to the threat, not realizing that he couldn’t achieve anything, and had to settle for depriving Europe of Russian gas, which is like shooting oneself in the foot.

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Por Carlos Alberto Montaner

Boris Johnson, el primer ministro del Reino Unido, dio la sensacional noticia. El miércoles 11 viajó a Suecia y Finlandia y firmó acuerdos de apoyo mutuo con ambos países. Ese apoyo incluye la guerra, en la cual los británicos son grandes expertos.

El ‘todos para uno y uno para todos” vuelve a funcionar como en los libros de Los tres mosqueteros. No se menciona a Rusia, pero es evidente que, en la memoria de todas las personas bien informadas, está la noticia de que esos dos países querían entrar en la OTAN, pero Rusia salió con la pachotada de considerar la solicitud de ingreso en el organismo defensivo como un casus belli.

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By Carlos Alberto Montaner

All hell broke loose. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came up with the idea of ​​saying that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” in an Italian television program. Mr. Lavrov bit off more than he could chew. Even the dictator Vladimir Putin had to apologize in a conversation with Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister of Israel, who takes these things seriously, as he should.

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