Raynine
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I have been thinking about Donald Trump’s attack on Iran to save to save European cities like Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen etc. that are already within range of its current missile technology. Iran has already demonstrated that it will attack anyone not supporting it as it has sent missiles into other Arab countries. I recall history and realize that this is not new. I was only 14 when Fidel Castro invited the USSR to install nuclear missiles in Cuba just 90 miles from Florida. JFK had tried to invade dangerous Cuba in 1961 but US politics vetoed air support which caused the invasion to fail.
After the bizarre breakdown of tactical coherence on the part of US leadership that brought about the ill-fated invasion, Fidel Castro aimed nuclear tipped missiles at US cities across the country in 1962. Those missiles could easily have dropped atomic bombs on any city in the US and ended it with scorched earth.
John f. Kennedy’s standoff with the USSR threatening atomic retaliation against Russia resulted in the removal of that missile technology but incredibly it was decided not to invade Cuba and let it just sit there as a continuing strategic threat to the US while its communist dictatorship oppressed Cuban citizens. Essentially, US leadership allowed a little Soviet Union to exist right off our shores for reasons that have never been logically explained.
Allowing an enemy country that attempted to bring about the destruction of America by killing every man, woman, and child with atomic bombs was somehow normalized by US leadership and it is still there. The psychological normalization of a real and present danger stuck and Cuba is still there. Kennedy was eventually erased with an assassination, so the uncomfortable deadly absurdity of leadership ineptitude ended with acceptance.
History does not repeat, but it sometimes rhymes in ways that could result in similar circumstances. The American press has devolved into a propaganda platform for US leadership and targeted delusional hatred of Trump has been inflicted on about half the population. So, Trump is not seen as a man trying to head off a vile rise of hateful, catastrophic danger, he is presented as causing it. Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is a danger far beyond Cuba’s because it has a stranglehold on global energy supplies.
Trump’s war is not really against Iran, it against some of our leadership.
After the bizarre breakdown of tactical coherence on the part of US leadership that brought about the ill-fated invasion, Fidel Castro aimed nuclear tipped missiles at US cities across the country in 1962. Those missiles could easily have dropped atomic bombs on any city in the US and ended it with scorched earth.
John f. Kennedy’s standoff with the USSR threatening atomic retaliation against Russia resulted in the removal of that missile technology but incredibly it was decided not to invade Cuba and let it just sit there as a continuing strategic threat to the US while its communist dictatorship oppressed Cuban citizens. Essentially, US leadership allowed a little Soviet Union to exist right off our shores for reasons that have never been logically explained.
Allowing an enemy country that attempted to bring about the destruction of America by killing every man, woman, and child with atomic bombs was somehow normalized by US leadership and it is still there. The psychological normalization of a real and present danger stuck and Cuba is still there. Kennedy was eventually erased with an assassination, so the uncomfortable deadly absurdity of leadership ineptitude ended with acceptance.
History does not repeat, but it sometimes rhymes in ways that could result in similar circumstances. The American press has devolved into a propaganda platform for US leadership and targeted delusional hatred of Trump has been inflicted on about half the population. So, Trump is not seen as a man trying to head off a vile rise of hateful, catastrophic danger, he is presented as causing it. Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is a danger far beyond Cuba’s because it has a stranglehold on global energy supplies.
Trump’s war is not really against Iran, it against some of our leadership.
