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Which directly followed the USA stationing Jupiter missiles in Turkey with the range to strike Moscow. As part of the mutual climb down from the missile crisis
by thombat 5mo ago
Which directly followed the USA stationing Jupiter missiles in Turkey with the range to strike Moscow. As part of the mutual climb down from the missile crisis the USA removed the Jupiters, as both sides then understood the wisdom of avoiding hot brinkmanship
- GJim 5mo agoIt's genuinely amazing how few people in the USA appear to be aware of what you have written. It'd be nice to put jingoism aside for a change.
- satao 5mo agoamericans are the most brainwashed people on earth when you consider how naïve of their own propaganda they are
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoWhich in hindsight seems like just a sideshow, since both sides already had ICBMs in development that can strike from anywhere in the world.
- thombat 5mo agoBut a much shorter flight time compared to ICBMs coming from the USA, and being launched from unhardened sites, so looking more like a first-strike decapitation weapon than a retaliatory MAD capability. Of course submarine-launched ballistic missiles have the same flight time if launched from the Black Sea or off the Eastern Seaboard, but at least they have a strong second-strike potential.