RETHINKING - MARCH 22, 2023 - HAVANA SYNDROME

 Several days ago, the Wall Street Journal posted a story titled “Havana Syndrome Revisited” written by Mary Anastasia O’Grady. (March 19, 2023)

The story starts with the following paragraph: “Cuban intelligence opposed warming U.S. relations. Did it send a message?”

The WSJ’s columnist about Latin American’s issues explained that Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, in the beginning of this month put down all the government's concerns about the famous “Havana Syndrome”.

The report explains that “preexisting conditions, conventional illnesses, and environmental factors” are more probable causes of the sickness that some members of our foreign services in Cuba felt since President Obama opened the Havana Embassy.

During years, officers and employees of embassies like Cuba, Russia, Serbia, China and Vietnam returned to the U.S. sick with headaches and brain problems due to an apparent “directed-energy technology” that they received when they were working in the foreign offices. 

In particular, the officers working in Havana since the U.S. embassy was reopened,  in frequent opportunities commented that the building is under special electrical vibrations that affect the normal performance of the members of the office.

After the document was issued by the director of national security, some former members of the foreign relations came to the press objecting to the official report.

The case remains open and the provisional conclusion of some observers is that the U.S. government doesn’t want to close embassies in rival or enemy countries, and for this reason, the intelligence services try to put down the complaints of American officers.

My comment posted in the blog section of the WSJ Online page was: When we travel to countries that have a high animosity against America, we cannot expect a friendly attitude with us.


SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own think tank.

RETHINKING - MARCH 20, 2023 - CHINA IN BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

 
The trip of China’s President Xi to Russia and Ukraine opens a new chapter in the war that started a year ago. This is the subject of The Wall Street Journal’s story titled “China’s Xi Arrives in Moscow as Beijing Seeks to Position Itself as a Peacemaker”.

The story was written by Thomas Grove and it started with a gloomy observation: “But with Russia and Ukraine fighting for advantage on the battlefield neither is interested in talks for now.”

Russia’s President Putin doesn’t want to recognize that till now his country really didn’t make significant progress after the 2014’s war.

From the Ukrainian side, President Zelensky wants to recover the territory that his country lost in 2014 including the Crimea Peninsula.

Both belligerent countries expect to redefine the current geography in the battlefield when the spring campaign starts.

It is interesting to see that the bloggers who wrote comments behind the WSJ's story don’t show optimism about the  “declared intentions” of President XI to become a peacemaker of this war.

Everybody believes that the Chinese leader is trying to help Mr. Putin before the Russian President drowns in the blood of his dead soldiers.
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And like the author of the story says, President Zelensky is willing to welcome President Xi to Kyiv, while he maintains his conditions that everybody knows.

Ukraine can be not accept "the peace until Russian troops leave Ukraine entirely, including the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine that Moscow has occupied since 2014.”

My comments posted in the blog section of WSJ Online were:

1) China has hurry for the peace treaty because it is playing to legalize in Putin's benefit the Ukrainian territories that Russia took since 2014.

2) The peace treaty brokered by China is a farce.

Other bloggers of the Wall Street Journal Members Community applauded my opinions.

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own think tank.