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    Cuban Crisis1962: More importantly than "nukes should only be used" is "nukes can justifiably be sta Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on June 28, 2023, 1:56 pm, in reply to "Strategic Stability and Prospects for Nuclear War Thoughts about the deployment of nuclear weapons"

    ..can/could obviously be fully justifiably stationed in Cuba by Soviet Russia(for example) in 1962 - a year or so after the US had highly provocatively (ssh!) placed Jupiter ballistic missiles in Turkey AND Italy.

    Understand this and please scream it to the hilltops: Putin's intervention in Ukraine was NOT the Cuban crisis "in reverse"!!
    In both cases Russia was radically, wantonly provoked by the Russia+Commie-hating US War Machine and their mainstream media enablers.

    And when it comes to provocation and provocateur precedents you need to add the Bay of Pigs and the - surprise surprise - very rarely mentioned "Cuban Project".

    Wikipedia: "In 1961 the US government put Jupiter nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey, and attempted to invade Cuba. Starting in November of that year the US government engaged in a campaign of terrorism and sabotage in Cuba, referred to as the Cuban Project...".

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