Cuban missile crisis - redux by 1kiki

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Cuban missile crisis - redux

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Monday, June 12, 2017 6:02 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

The expansion of the USSR's nuclear capability to Cuba almost triggered nuclear Armageddon.

So, what are we to make of the west bringing nuclear arms and troops right to Russia's border?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shifrinson-russia-us-nato-d
eal--20160530-snap-story.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-expansion-di
d-the-west-break-its-promise-to-moscow-a-663315.html

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/folly-nato-enlargement

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 9:54 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Planned:

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"Objective truths are established by evidence. Personal truths by faith. Political truths by incessant repetition."

Russia's and Assad's War Crimes in Syria - http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60278
Evidence the Syrian regime sponsors ISIS - http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=60521

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 9:56 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Current:

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 11:27 PM

RIVERLOVE

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was great! I was in first grade and we got out of a lot of boring classwork by having to hide under our wood desks, which were guaranteed to be atom-bomb proof.

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Monday, January 5, 2026 7:39 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Gunfire reported in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2008334854811709845

About 200 U.S. troops were involved in the ground operation in Caracas to capture Maduro, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said

https://x.com/Conflict_Radar/status/2008294502180835605#m

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez was formally sworn-in Monday as Interim President of Venezuela, with the oath being presented by her brother, the President of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, while overseen by Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the son of Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2008306007840104727

Footage circulating from Caracas, Venezuela amid reports of possible gunfire.

https://x.com/Osint613/status/2008333561166770559#m

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026 2:58 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

In Cuba, people go without food and power as U.S. squeezes oil supply and tourists flee | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-fuel-crisis-9.7083047

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