#HAVANA: The Russian flotilla departs Cuba perhaps headed for Maracaibo & What is to be done? John Bolton, NYPost Foundation for American Security & Freedom
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
https://nypost.com/2024/06/16/opinion/russian-submarine-and-ships-arrive-in-havana/
1911 SS HAMBURG DEPARTING HAVANNA HARBOR
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:05.0 | CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:08.0 | John Bolton, former National Security Advisor, |
| 0:11.0 | former Ambassador to the United States writing most recently at the post about |
| 0:14.7 | a Russian flotilla that sailed into Havana Harbor, including a nuclear-powered and submarine |
| 0:22.1 | capable of firing nuclear-tipped missiles. |
| 0:25.0 | All of this made great excitement and now we report that that same Russian flotilla in these last hours |
| 0:32.0 | is reported by the AP to have left to |
| 0:34.4 | Havana Harbor destination unknown although in John Bolton's piece in the |
| 0:39.0 | New York Post and in the AP copy in three hours it's very clear that Venezuela is often mentioned as the |
| 0:46.2 | destination. John a very good evening to you. It was the Cuban missile crisis |
| 0:50.6 | of course it comes to everybody's mind who's old enough to remember |
| 0:54.0 | those headlines in those dark days in October 1962. |
| 0:58.8 | The Russians think about it as well. |
| 1:01.0 | Why did they include for the first time to my knowledge sailing in the |
| 1:05.4 | Havana Harbor or even the Caribbean waters and nuclear-powered nuclear capable |
| 1:10.7 | submarine? What was the message John? Good evening to you. |
| 1:14.0 | Good evening. I think the message from Putin is you have not harmed or impaired Russia's |
| 1:20.0 | global military reaching capabilities because of the war in Ukraine your sanctions have not affected us. |
| 1:27.1 | We can still come 90 miles away from the Florida Keys 90 miles from U.S. territory before they sailed into Havana Harbor |
| 1:35.0 | they held fired live fire missile exercises, test exercises often international waters. |
| 1:41.6 | So it's it was intended for time is often international waters. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

