• Omniraptor
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    2 months ago

    it’s a mirror of “Cuba is a strong ally in the West, let’s let them have nukes. What could go wrong”

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      2 months ago

      Nothing did go wrong, though. If you’re saying there was a close call, that’s true, but Russia doesn’t have the ability to threaten a conventional response. And no one gets nuked for moving nukes around; look at Belarus.