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One wonders: how many Americans would have supported a shooting war in Cuba, had it come to it in 1962.
by HarryHirsch 5y ago
One wonders: how many Americans would have supported a shooting war in Cuba, had it come to it in 1962.
- dane-pgp 5y agoThe Cuba situation was perhaps a little more complicated because the US implemented a naval blockade of the island (disingenuously labelled a "quarantine"), which, to many, didn't look like an act of war. Therefore if the Soviets had tried to exercise their sovereign right to dock their ships at a Cuban port, and the US navy had opened fire, then there might have been uncertainty about whether the Soviet breaching of the blockade was an act of aggression that the US was merely defending itself against. No such ambiguity exists in Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine, despite their label of "special military operation". Their covert invasion (and effective military occupation) of Crimea and the separatist regions are better examples of ambiguous acts of war, though.
- zardo 5y agoThey'd probably have been mostly concerned with how to avoid radiation poisoning, and which of their friends and family survived the nuclear exchange.
- NoPie 5y agoHow many Cubans would have supported it today? Cubans today are totally unhappy with their socialistic government. They would have definitely be better off if their government had fallen. On the other hand, democracy cannot be established by weapons. People need to desire it themselves first.
- akhmatova 5y agoA similar percentage or higher, given the climate at the time.