And then what if Russia or China placed missiles on the Canadian and Mexican borders ready to be launched on a moment’s notice into the U.S. I assume you would find that okay. Right?
This is, I gather, an attempt to imply that the roles have, at some point in history, been reversed - that the U.S. placed missiles on the Russian border, ready to be launched at a moment's notice into Russia.
Would you be so kind as to clarify when that is supposed to happen? I suspect that I know to which historical event you are referring (one that was resolved without bloodshed, by the way), but would prefer that you come right out and say it.
Come on, don't be coy!
Regards,
“This is, I gather, an attempt to imply that the roles have, at some point in history, been reversed - that the U.S. placed missiles on the Russian border, ready to be launched at a moment’s notice into Russia.”
This is not an attempt at anything except to solicit your answer to the question, what would your response be if Russia or China placed missiles on our border with Mexico and Canada? It’s that simple. You don’t seem to want to answer. Why?
Being coy was not my intention. Of course, the incident was the Cuban missile crisis where the US faced down the Ruskies over placing missiles in the sovereign country of Cuba, which according to the narrative Cuba had every right to do as a sovereign country.
You are correct that the incident was resolved peacefully after JFK and Khrushchev negotiated an agreement. Russia would not place missiles in Cuba and we would remove missiles in Turkey. The negotiated settlement had a strange caveat, though, that the Turkey part of the agreement would not be disclosed to the American public. Was that transparency or political maneuvering?
The Russian special military operation could have gone the same way if the US and its pawn, NATO, had negotiated a settlement with the Russians based on the Russian-specific written proposal they made in January. The Russian proposals were summarily dismissed with no attempt at negotiations — none. The Ruskies were serious about their concerns and demands and the inevitable happened as a result.
So here we are today after pouring $50 billion of taxpayer money into a failed state and arming a military that has no chance against the Russians. We are clearly no stranger to these types of boondoggles. The Ukes are losing upwards of 200 soldiers a day! Thousands of their soldiers have given their lives for no other reason than corrupt, self-serving so-called leaders and their political maneuvering (Zelensky the clown and 10% for the big guy).
If you don’t see the outright blatant hypocrisy in all of this then bad on you.
It’s a disaster for us and a big win for the Ruskies militarily and economically!
Way to go Brandon!