HAVANA—A Canadian navy patrol ship sailed into Havana early on June 14, just hours after the United States announced a fast-attack submarine had docked at its Guantanamo naval base on Cuba, both vessels on the heels of Russian warships that arrived on the island earlier this week.
The confluence of Russian, Canadian and U.S. vessels in Cuba—a Communist-ruled island nation just 160 km (100 miles) from Florida—served up a reminder of old Cold War tensions and of current fraught ties between Russia and Western nations over the Ukraine war.
