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Why would they have to?
by Iv 7y ago
Why would they have to?
- pinkfoot 7y agoEr, because the USA was quite happy to start a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis regardless of what the rest of us on the plant thought. All because of missiles in Cuba - when the USA quite happily had similar weapons in Turkey.
- Iv 7y agoWhy would there have been a missile crisis in Cuba if USSR was not a nuclear power?
- pinkfoot 7y agoOf course not, but it doesn't change the fact that the USA unilateraly committed itself to ending the entire planet if they didn't get what they wanted. The USSR were the adults in that conflict. So, yeah - the rest of us consider it entirely likely that Democracy will nuke us.
- Iv 7y agoIf you have credible source to this version of the Cuban missiles crisis, I'd be interested to hear about that. I have seen insanity on both sides but from reading both US and USSR propaganda, the latter was even less rooted in fact than the American one.
- pinkfoot 7y ago1. the planet came within a stray bear of a nuclear war [1] 2. the USSR backed-down and withdrew from Cuba 3. the USA kept their nuclear weapons in Turkey [2]. https://lacrossetribune.com/news/false-alarm-how-a-bear-nearly-started-a-nuclear-war/article_bc6f4da6-a89c-5d7d-bf0a-e41150753b62.html https://lacrossetribune.com/news/false-alarm-how-a-bear-near... [1] https://turkeywonk.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/turkeys-nuclear-missiles-an-important-player-in-the-cuban-missile-crisis/ https://turkeywonk.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/turkeys-nuclear-... [2]
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoAnd since then, moved them even closer.
- Iv 7y agoNone of this comes to validate the opinion that "USA unilaterally committed itself to ending the entire planet if they didn't get what they wanted." and that "The USSR were the adults in that conflict". The first link is about a near miss. There were a dozen of these on both sides during the Cold war. The second link is about the equivalence USSR saw between missiles in Turkey and missiles in Cuba. This is not about being adults in the room. This is about Russia failing to being stealthy enough in Cuba. Seriously. They would have done it if they could have gotten away with. And US would have simply bombed Cuba with conventional weapons. Something neither country wanted.
- pinkfoot 7y ago> USA unilaterally committed itself to ending the entire planet Would they have taken the nukes off the bombers if Swaziland had objected?
- kortilla 7y ago> The USSR were the adults in that conflict. Adults wouldn’t have put missiles in Cuba in the first place.
- pinkfoot 7y agoAdults wouldn't have put nuclear missiles in Turkey first.
- FpUser 7y agoThe US has quite proven itself at starting wars without hesitation to enforce their version of the world order. And lacking a restraint like MAD I think there would be a good chance of them dropping nukes here and there, USSR being prime target.