US responds to Russian ships in Cuba

The US Navy has sent at least one anti-submarine aircraft to the Caribbean and has three destroyers patrolling in the waters around Cuba following the arrival of Russian military ships there. But there’s no cause for alarm. Host Carol Hills speaks with Dara Massicot at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about what is being seen as a routine Russian training exercise.

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