1962 revisited

[Gonz]

Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday.

"This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency.

The comments were the latest signal that Moscow intends to project its military capability in far-flung corners of the globe despite a tight defence budget and hardware that experts consider in many respects outdated.

Does he have Kennedy's backbone? Will he visit Dallas?

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[Dave]

Kennedy's backbone?
You mean will he bring the world to the brink of nuclear war like Kennedy did?
Kennedy was a fuck up regarding Cuba. First he botched the Bay of Pigs invasion, had plans drawn up to invade Cuba and topped it off with deploying nukes in Turkey, Russia's back yard.
Khrushchev played him like a violin. Got the US to back off Cuba and got the nukes out of Turkey.

 

[chcr]

Kennedy's backbone?
You mean will he bring the world to the brink of nuclear war like Kennedy did?
Kennedy was a fuck up regarding Cuba. First he botched the Bay of Pigs invasion, had plans drawn up to invade Cuba and topped it off with deploying nukes in Turkey, Russia's back yard.
Khrushchev played him like a violin. Got the US to back off Cuba and got the nukes out of Turkey.

 

[H2O boy]

Kennedy's backbone?
You mean will he bring the world to the brink of nuclear war like Kennedy did?
Kennedy was a fuck up. Regarding Cuba, first he botched the Bay of Pigs invasion, had plans drawn up to invade Cuba and topped it off with deploying nukes in Turkey, Russia's back yard.
Khrushchev played him like a violin. Got the US to back off Cuba and got the nukes out of Turkey.

there. fixed it for you