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DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN: RUSSIAN NUKES IN CUBA!
For the kidlets out there and for the adults who tend to forget and/or prefer to ignore history’s uglies, this is not unprecedented. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080722180457.q0jlf4en&show_article=1. The Russians are “thinking” of basing long-range, nuclear-capable bombers in Cuba. (”Why?” would be a good question since Cuba is just a 90 mile raft trip away.)
In October, 1962, the “Cuban Missile Crisis” had many Americans flocking to churches, building air raid shelters, and generally believing that Armageddon was at hand.
The U.S.S.R. had surreptitiously built nuclear missile bases in Fidel Land and our U2 spy planes caught them with their pants down. Russian Premier Nikita Khruschev, the dolt in power at the time, had already seen the mettle of our 35th president when, acting under the advice of Adlai Stevenson, Kennedy had denied air support for the Cuban patriots at the Bay of Pigs, thereby dooming their effort to free their nation from the murderous Communist, Fidel Castro, and resulting in their slaughter. (Fidel is still there, by the way, ruling in absentia and non compos mentis with Raoul almost half a century later.)
Barely 18 months later, Nikita tested the American leader, and Adlai found the gonads to stand up to the Russkies and issued his famous challenge in the United Nations and declare he was prepared to wait until Hell froze over for the Russian response. It never came, at least not an honest response.
What did happen was Russia’s “removal” of those missiles from Cuba, covered in tarps which could have concealed spoiled Havana Club rum for all we know; Cuban patriots said the missiles were carted off to various caves on the island.
In any event, Khruschev was deposed 2 years later in part because the quid pro quo deal...
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