(January 3, 2017 at 3:09 pm)abaris Wrote:(January 3, 2017 at 3:01 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Just gonna mention Kennedy/Khrushchev. Nuf said.
No, not nuff.
How do you think the crisis would have gone down if it hadn't been handled by cool headed political professionals and their advisors? On both sides.
One can only speculate but when even LBJ was minutes away from ordering a nuclear strike on Egypt because unmarked Israeli planes were bombing the USS Liberty, I'm not too keen on Dump handling something like the Cuba crisis.
Good thing he gets along with Russia. You can't both want a world that is safer from nuclear war and at the same time argue that it's bad to be friendly with Russia.