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2021-10-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The Cuban Missile Crisis: the First Mega-PsyOp

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-20 14:48|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Is Cuban born author Servando Gonzalez saying we've been lied to previously ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-20 14:53|| 2021-10-20 14:53|| Front Page Top

#2 The Russians are famously great chess players.
<#insert dumb planning joke here>
While that episode of Cold War Theater was titled "Missiles in Cuba", the object of the gambit was Missiles in Europe - specifically removing short range tactical missiles NATO had installed near Russian (was it in Turkey?)

We may have "defeated" the USSR in Cuba, but if memory serves, the NATO missiles were removed. Exchanging pieces is a classic chess tactic.

Personally, I had just finished reading "On the Beach" at the time and was scared sh*tless.

Posted by SteveS 2021-10-20 15:13|| 2021-10-20 15:13|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ "On The Beach" makes Stephen King's books seem like fairy tales with happy endings.

Posted by Matt 2021-10-20 15:41|| 2021-10-20 15:41|| Front Page Top

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