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Russia plans to place its long range strategic bombers in Cuba
Sep 13 2008, R.M.Paulraj

The post-cold war expansion of NATO has brought many former east bloc nations into the fold of American military influence. The securities of these newly independent nations require to be beefed up, but the coming of the Americans to the very threshold...

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