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Vietnam is much farther from Washington than Kiev is from Moscow. We know exactly how the USA reacted when the USSR sent serious hardware to Cuba.
by michael1999 4y ago
Vietnam is much farther from Washington than Kiev is from Moscow. We know exactly how the USA reacted when the USSR sent serious hardware to Cuba.
- user-extended 4y agoThe US wasn't bogged down in an active conflict with troops on the ground when that happened for months. We're past that point since a long time ago.
- blub 4y agoA strange moment, when the Pentagon shows more self-restraint than allegedly intelligent hackers.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoMaybe. But that was just a reaction of the USSR to the USA stationing some serious kit in Italy and Turkey. Namely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir_Air_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir_Air_Station in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0zmir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0zmir Now look at a map and compare the distance to the former territory of the Soviet Union and associates, and compare that with the distance of Cuba to the CONUS. Whining pinschers...