Lavrov says he hopes US President Joe Biden has the wisdom to deal with a global confrontation similar to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, in reference to Moscow's war on Ukraine [File: Evgenia Novozhenina via AFP]
Al Jazeera: Lavrov draws parallels between Ukraine war, Cuban missile crisis
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says there are ‘similarities’ to the Cuban crisis, mainly because Russia is now threatened by Western weapons in Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he hopes US President Joe Biden has the wisdom to deal with a global confrontation similar to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, referencing the war on Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered the biggest hostilities between Moscow and the West since the Cuban crisis, when the Soviet Union and United States came close to a nuclear war.
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Update: Russia's Lavrov needles Biden over Cuban missile crisis and Ukraine (Reuters).
WNU Editor: I remember my father telling me that during the Cuban missile crisis he was certain that there would be a nuclear war between the USSR and the United States.
We are not there yet. But the trend lines are very worrisome on where this current conflict is heading.
I'm going to wager the statesmen and diplomats who averted it were greatly superior to the ones on the job at the moment
ReplyDeleteIn '62 the world was still riding high on "the american century", our political parties and elites still shared common interests with the working class, and we only stood to lose rather than gain anything in an open conflict with the Russians.
ReplyDeleteIn 2022 however, we're drowning in debt without any solutions to balance the budget for two decades now; balancing the budget isn't even part of the conversation. They don't share common values or interests with their indignant and divided electorate. The elites no longer own american factories and are only just now realizing how poorly positioned that makes them in a real war scenario.
That's why there is reason to be more alarmed by this brinksmanship this time around. From the perspective of the uniparty (who find more common purpose among their supposed opponents than they do with their battered voting bases) war with Russia/China provides a possible off-ramp from the precipice, without having to account for the debt and outright criminality of their tax plunder. The totalitarian control of the intel agencies would be fast-tracked in the name of national security. A peer-war provides half of what the elites have already been pushing since 9/11 without needing to change the status quo one bit. That's why it's scary.
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