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Originally Posted by New Era
The problem is that Trump thinks HE is God. The guy is a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and not that far from the same level of insanity as his NK counterpart. We have two man children, with nuclear weapons, staring each other down trying to figure out who has the bigger pee and the smaller amount of boom-boom in their diapers. This is going to end ugly. I was listening to NPR on the way to work and a guest framed this as the 21st Century Cuban Missile Crisis. We don't have someone with brains like John Fitzgerald Kennedy on our side this time. We have someone with the intellect of Jamie Kennedy on the line and with his finger on the button.
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People forget how close we were to a nuclear crisis during the missile crisis. We were one over heated vacuum tube basically away from a nuclear exchange.
While both sides were to an extent rational, JFK in the end didn't give Krushchev any room to maneuver or save face which lead to nearly 20 years of part hacks running the Soviet Union and the idea of repraochment that Krusshchev had along with reforms to the soviet economy and the way it dealt with the American's died when Brezhnev took his place.
The Cold War could have possibly ended a lot sooner.
Neither side won the Cuban Missile Crisis though the Soviet Union lost it.