Cuba marks the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion with a space launch

[Vahe Demirjian]

Now that Joe Biden has been elected president, it's hypothetically possible that due to COVID-19, Cuba chooses to mark the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion next year with a space launch (using technology from the cancelled RSA-3 SLV project developed in concert with South Africa) rather than a military parade (the 8th Cuban Communist Party Congress will be held around the time of the anniversary.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Was there a question here?

I don't see any logic or relevance in this scenario.

 

[lordroel]

Now that Joe Biden has been elected president, it's hypothetically possible that due to COVID-19, Cuba chooses to mark the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion next year with a space launch (using technology from the cancelled RSA-3 SLV project developed in concert with South Africa) rather than a military parade (the 8th Cuban Communist Party Congress will be held around the time of the anniversary.

Why would Cuba start the Cuban-American War, they are not that stupid.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

Now that Joe Biden has been elected president, it's hypothetically possible that due to COVID-19, Cuba chooses to mark the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion next year with a space launch (using technology from the cancelled RSA-3 SLV project developed in concert with South Africa) rather than a military parade (the 8th Cuban Communist Party Congress will be held around the time of the anniversary.

Why would Cuba start the Cuban-American War, they are not that stupid.

South Africa had a space program in the 1980s when the apartheid government was in place, and two SLVs were planned, the RSA-3 and RSA-4, but both of these designs were cancelled in 1994 after Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa. Because the government of South Africa is still thankful to Cuba for indirectly helping to end apartheid (Fidel Castro's anti-racism allowed him to express solidarity with Nelson Mandela in his struggle against apartheid), it's possible Cuba is working with South Africa on a space project utilizing technology from the RSA-3 and RSA-4 as well as Cuban-made rocket technology based off of FROG missiles and imported Iranian rocket technology. In doing so, Cuba would beat Brazil in the race to be the first Latin American nation to launch a satellite into orbit and only the third member of the "outposts of tyranny" to launch a rocket into space, and since Joe Biden has pledged to build upon Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba, Havana could send a propaganda satellite into orbit by the 60th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion to score yet another major propaganda victory for the communist government (Cuba considers the Bay of Pigs invasion and Barack Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba its grandest propaganda victories).