Cuban missile crisis: closer than you thought to WW III

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Yeah I probably would not have been born because my parents would also not be born because of the nucular blasts. Good thing it did not happen.

I don't understand the big bother back then with nukes in Cuba when the nukes on the other side of world are literally in your front yard anyway (ICBMs).

Makes sense at first glance, however:

-Shouldn't be hard to make procedure that plans for the event of a small decapitation strike on the government; in fact, I'm sure such is already in place for the simple fact that an unprovoked attack most likely won't come from weapons that create adequate warning (if enough weapons are close by to suppress your counter-strike rather than proactive defense, then it's probably wise to assume something is amiss)
-it allows you to put your own weapons in their "backyard", and if they protest, you just point out the double standard and say that if you remove them from ours we won't put them there

Plus, ballistic missiles have always been able to be launched from subs anyway (surfaced to begin with, but that's no problem, as nothing is going to pickup a surfaced sub unless there's a bird or boat in the area); way before the Cuban crisis. It's classified up the wazoo whether it's always been possible to detect all incursions of subs into friendly waters; I bet lots of subs slipped by during the Cold War.

There were no small nukes. Invading Cuba was an illegal act.

The real play was remove your bombs from Turkey, and it worked. Turkey was just too close, same for Cuba.

The invasion force was gathering in south Florida, and Cuba had enough to take out the whole East Coast. Launch the invasion, bombing runs, it would have forced the launch of everything. People do have a right to defend themselves.

The rich boy with mob connections played dirty, he got told to shut up.

He faced dying for his country, and taking a hundred million with him over being a bully, spoiled brat, so he agreed to leave Cuba alone, and take the nukes out of Turkey.

Was it something? The subs posed just as much danger, but they were Russian. Losing a war with Cuba would leave you blown up, and even if Cuba was blown to bits, the East Coast, Gulf Coast, would still be gone.

In many ways it was the start of the end of the Cold War, weapon reductions, backing away from the idea of a world war being winable.

Iraq and Afganistan did not have Russian suppport, Iran and Sryia do. Talk of invasion will be stopped. Bombing countries because you do not want them to have technology will not be allowed.

The change is, Europe is beyond broke, as is the US and Japan. Our economies have stalled, because instead of education, new technology, it was spent on war and other frauds.

The first shot of the new war has been launched by Iran, who first quit selling oil to Europe, and now are going out of business, the whole 4,000,000 barrels a day.

Maybe other producers, the Saudis, can make up 2,000,000 barrels a day, but the shortfall is going to drive up the price.

With the west at near recession, only due to book keeping, we have been in decline for forty years. With no one but the Fed to buy our IOUs, not even the Saudis. Debt cannot expand forever.

We export threats and invasions, and manufacture war machines. Business has been bad lately. We make it, but at the cost of maintaining the health, education, welfare, of our nation. Besides that, we lost in Cuba, Nam, Iraq, Afganistan.

Also the weather has been bad.

Costs are growing, very soon we will be able to pay for Social Security and education, food, or the war machine, but not both. So get ready to bomb grandma, and level PS 13, because this is war. The useless people who live outside our Millitary Bases are wasting our needed Millitary Supplies.

Only a millitary State with Helots to serve them can preserve Freedom. The rest are tools of the enemy, and we must be strong to survive! Only those who survive Basic Training have earned the right to live!

Nothing ever changes.

What kept us from WW III was the fact the Soviets actually had a sense of self-preservation.

If we had been dealing with a bunch of religious fanatics in a situation like this that believed they'd get a trip to paradise for killing "infidels" on the other hand, we actually would have had WW III.

The Premier of the Soviet Union during the missile crisis was Nikita Khrushchev.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer