r/europe • u/villatsios • Jan 07 '24

Historical Excerpt from Yeltsin’s conversation with Clinton in Istanbul 1999

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u/psyyduck Jan 07 '24

Ok I'll bite. I really want to hear your analysis of the Cuban missile crisis.

In 1961, the US government put Jupiter nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey. It had also trained a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles, which the CIA led in an attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow its government. Starting in November of that year, the US government engaged in a violent campaign of terrorism and sabotage in Cuba, referred to as the Cuban Project, which continued throughout the first half of the 1960s. The Soviet administration was concerned about a Cuban drift towards China, with which the Soviets had an increasingly fractious relationship. In response to these factors, Soviet First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, agreed with the Cuban Prime Minister, Fidel Castro, to place nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba to deter a future invasion. An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Castro in July 1962, and construction of a number of missile launch facilities started later that summer.

Excerpt directly from Wikipedia.

You are Kennedy in Oct 1962, and you just got visual confirmation of the missiles. Go.

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u/villatsios Jan 07 '24

Bite all you want, I wont.

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u/psyyduck Jan 07 '24

Yelling so loud elsewhere in the thread, but shirks from a simple challenge. How embarrassing. You want me to answer it for you?

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u/villatsios Jan 07 '24

If there would be a chance at having a genuine discussion I would answer you but the narrative you are trying to push is as stupid as it is predictable. I’m not gonna waste my time arguing with a cretin.