• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Then I’m sure you can explain what makes it obvious based on the very limited things I have said about the Cuban Missile Crisis so far.

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      11 months ago

      Seems like you have an idea that the missle crisis was two sided. It was not. Khrushchev, who had acted irrationally on the world stage, was found to be placing nuclear missles in Cuba. This would result in mere seconds between launch and detonation on US soil. Military age men in the US were packing up to go to war as their fathers did just 20 years earlier. Kennedy put a blockade on the island. Khrushchev moved his navy to the blockade. Kennedy reached a deal with Khrushchev whereby the Soviets would remove its missles and Kennedy wouldn’t place missles in eastern European countries. These 13 days brought us close to nuclear war for no better reason than the Soviet yearn for world wide conquest.