Newsweek is reporting that a senior Russian official said that his country was seriously considering establishing a military base in Cuba, just as the two countries were set to meet for high-level talks with the United States planning to quit a nuclear missile deal.

Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov, head of the Russian lower house of parliament’s defense committee and a former airborne troops commander, became the latest Moscow figure to warn of the historic consequences of the U.S. leaving the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. 

He said in order to strengthen their military presence in Cuba, they need the consent of the Cuban government. And that now they are in the active phase of assessing this scenario and proposals will next be prepared with estimates.

Shamanov’s remarks came as Russian President Vladimir Putin was set to receive Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on the first stop of his debut world tour.

The Russian politician went on to say that he would “not exclude” the prospect of a Russian military base in the Caribbean country coming up during these talks, which would also reportedly include a $50 million Russian loan for Cuba to buy weapons. 

In 1962, the U.S. discovered Soviet missile sites in Cuba and established a blockade to confront incoming Soviet forces in what came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The tense standoff was settled after Moscow agreed to withdraw the weapons in exchange for Washington agreeing to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey, but the U.S. embargo on Cuba remained, however.

And despite a thawing of ties under Obama in 2014, the Trump administration has reversed course and has blamed mysterious symptoms affecting U.S. diplomats in Havana on alleged sonic attacks.

Former Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, who signed the INF treaty alongside President Ronald Reagan in 1987, has also cited the Cuban Missile Crisis as he urged the U.S. and Russia to come together because military incidents between them “in today’s charged atmosphere can lead to big trouble.”

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