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As North Korea Backs Down at Guam – Is This Our Generation’s Cuban Missile Crisis?
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| Mark Angelides
Posted on 08/15/2017 1:25:10 PM PDT by davikkm
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:25:10 PM PDT
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davikkm
To: davikkm
No, not really. Kim and North Korea are nothing compared to the Soviet Union. Besides, this is still not over.
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:27:46 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: davikkm
Trump will not be given credit for this.
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:28:04 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Consistently acting in a way that is in opposition to our human nature is INSANITY.)
To: Reno89519
The parallels to the Cuban Crisis, while inexact, will not be lost on the Norks either. After all, the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis resulted in pledges by the US never to seek regime change in Cuba. Kim would be happy to arrange to get such a pledge from US.
To: davikkm
President Trump is a great deal maker. Perhaps he can make a mega-deal with China, offering China enough to abandon North Korea.
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:34:36 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
To: davikkm
The Russians could hurt us. The North Koreans could not.
To: davikkm
The Cuban missile crisis was real, my Brother-in-Law was flying P2Vs right off the coast of Cuba.
What the press got intentionally wrong was it was Khrushchev who came out ahead.
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:44:19 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: yarddog
What the press got intentionally wrong was it was Khrushchev who came out ahead. It was one of the main reasons Khrushchev was removed two years later.
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:47:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: davikkm
No. JFK only got the Commies to back down by giving up territory of vital strategic importance to this nation in Turkey.
Trump stared down Red China and Fat Man Kim and got them both to blink without losing a single American life, dollar or any strategic interest.
It was an incredible victory.
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:56:05 PM PDT
by
WashingtonFire
(President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
To: davikkm
No comparison whatsoever. America both military & civilian was scared and on a war footing in October 1962.
Kim Dong Fatso gets mostly a ho-hum from America now. Not even a hiccup in the stock market or the price of gas.
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posted on
08/15/2017 1:58:28 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: elcid1970
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:06:13 PM PDT
by
PeaRidge
To: davikkm
What was the price for China’s connivance..?
I will bet it was the South China Sea..!
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:08:40 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: hinckley buzzard
We already gave him that. On comparison, he should realize that his country is nothing compared to the old Soviet Union.
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:10:11 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: gaijin
Soviet de escalation in the Cuban Missile Crisis how to price:
removal of us missiles from Turkey.
my bet is there was some price this time also and that it was secret.
again.
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:10:40 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
A mega deal with China? How about one with the Norks? We can ALWAYS offer a better deal than anyone.
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:12:14 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
I was on voice recog, there, with my phone and sorta botched it:
I was idly speculating, but I noticed that China suddenly bought into the anti-Nork sanctions and my guess is that that Chinese cooperation wasn’t free.
But you have a good point, there might have been some horse-trading done directly with the Norks, too.
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:24:34 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: davikkm
I hear little Kimmy hasn’t been see in a week or so any truth to this....
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:29:13 PM PDT
by
DAVEY CROCKETT
(Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump)
To: davikkm
this article is complete and utter lies - it’s worse than fake news
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:35:08 PM PDT
by
vooch
(America First Drain the Swamp)
To: davikkm
I hate to tell you, but in the big picture we only broke even in what’s known as the Cuban Missile Crises. A lot of the “history” is designed to make Democrat JFK look good and tough in the face of Soviet “aggression”.
Here’s the sequence of events that make up the bigger picture starting before the October events known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis”:
1. U.S. missiles to Turkey
2. Soviet missiles to Cuba
3. Soviet missiles withdrawn from Cuba
4. 6 month delay
5. U.S. missiles withdrawn from Turkey.
Our missiles were withdrawn quietly with no U.S. press and 6 months after the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba per the agreement between Kennedy and Khrushcev. But don’t kid yourself, Khrushchev got what he wanted, which to was to get those missiles out of Turkey.
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:42:54 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
To: davikkm
Not by a long shot. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. Navy confronted Soviet missile-toting war ships on their way to Cuba. There was actually a stand off. What we have here in blabber and no ships. North Korea's Navy is a brown water navy with east and west coast fleets. In the event of war or confrontation, the two navies could not even join forces.
Besides, I'm thinking that the un-jong understands that American intelligence knows exactly where he is at all times--by stench if not actually by military detection equipment.
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:55:50 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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