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After successfully defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John Kennedy warned...
Twitter ^ | 5/4/2023 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Posted on 05/04/2023 5:37:15 PM PDT by Nextrush

After successfully defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John Kennedy warned against ever again forcing Russia to choose between national humiliation and nuclear war. We should heed his advice.#Kennedy24


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: johnfkennedy; nuclearwar; robertfkennedyjr; worldwariii
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To: cgbg
It was obsolete missiles.
21 posted on 05/04/2023 6:11:33 PM PDT by cowboyusa (IT'S TIME TO PLAY COWBOYS AND MARXISTS!)
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To: shadowlands1960

there were some Titan missile sites that he took down

Incorrect - the TITAN I were designed a contingency in case the ATLAS missile failed They were replaced in 1965 along with the ATLAS ICBM by next generation missiles - solid fuel MINUTEMAN and TITAN II which used storable fuel vs liquid oxygen of earlier models


22 posted on 05/04/2023 6:15:31 PM PDT by njslim
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To: njslim

We’re talking about 1962... the Titans were removed in 1965 and as you said, mostly replaced with Minutemen..


23 posted on 05/04/2023 6:17:37 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Nextrush

JFK was going to shut down the CIA after the Bay of Pigs.

The CIA got to him before he could do it.

Funny this all. JFK could not, nor would not, be able to run as a democrat these days.

And here it is..RFK Jr, trying to run as a democrat, and as much as I disagree with him, he is being basically censored by his own party. How the hell do you stay faithful to a party that has become the new Nazi party?


24 posted on 05/04/2023 6:19:16 PM PDT by crz
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To: cgbg

He did not give up bases. He withdrew medium ranged missiles from Turkey.


25 posted on 05/04/2023 6:20:58 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Nextrush

We better watch out…Russia might spend a year trying to take a city of 35,000 in eastern Poland.


26 posted on 05/04/2023 6:23:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: shadowlands1960

Titan missiles were never deployed in Europe.


27 posted on 05/04/2023 6:24:45 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: cgbg

bingo!

that half of the story is rarely included


28 posted on 05/04/2023 6:25:03 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: njslim
This is from the site U-S-History:

Titan missiles played a role in the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis. Prior to the crisis, a squadron of Titans had been deployed in Turkey. To Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, this represented as great a threat to the Soviet Union as the Soviet missiles in Cuba did to the United States. A confidential criterion of the agreement that ended the crisis was that the United States would remove its missiles from Turkey within a short interval. This was accomplished later without any public acknowledgment that it had been part of the deal.

29 posted on 05/04/2023 6:25:19 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Vermont Lt

See post #29.


30 posted on 05/04/2023 6:26:12 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Titan missiles played a role in the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis.

INCORRECT - as stated the missile in question were JUPITER IRBM The JUPITER were designed by Von Braum and his team as follow on to the REDSTONE

Also the Cuban Missile Crisis took place in October 1962 not 1961

Somebody should tell these clowns to correct

ON YOUTUBE is excellent series giving day by day , move by move of the Cuban Missile Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEXjoBe5ZdI&list=PLrG5J-K5AYAWbzTXiTzPEFQHLoozkqchz


31 posted on 05/04/2023 6:38:17 PM PDT by njslim
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To: Nextrush

Here’s 1987 article in the Washington Post discussing the “secret” trade:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/10/22/transcript-confirms-kennedy-linked-removal-of-missiles-in-cuba-turkey/1596db24-709f-453d-87df-dede2e19b17c/

There’s a difference between “not read-on” and “not well-read.”


32 posted on 05/04/2023 6:39:34 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: armydawg505

What do you suggest we do, to free Cuba from communism?


33 posted on 05/04/2023 6:47:00 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In the 1990s when Russia was at its weakest, Cuba on its own, we had ample opportunity to free those people. Even now Russia would not start a nuclear war over Cuba, particularly with their bloody nose in Ukraine. Asking Biden to free Cuba is like asking the sun to set in the east however.


34 posted on 05/04/2023 6:53:16 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: armydawg505

Are you suggesting a military invasion?


35 posted on 05/04/2023 6:56:05 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I was stationed in Turkey shortly after the missile crisis.
The United States had, if I remember correctly, Titan missiles in Turkey before Russia attempted to put missiles in Cuba. While Kennedy took credit for a big win and the press never covered the whole story the U.S. agreed to pull their missiles out of Turkey. The U.S. also agreed not to invade Cuba. An that is the rest of the story.


36 posted on 05/04/2023 7:00:30 PM PDT by J.Deere Man (Cuba Missile Crisis )
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To: Nextrush

Khrushchev diffused that situation, not Kennedy.


37 posted on 05/04/2023 7:02:02 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: njslim

You are correct.. thanks for the update. There was a book I read for ‘Foreign Affairs’ in college called ‘Pragmatism and Idealism in Foreign Policy.’ It also identified Titans as the missiles that JFK removed... that was the origin of my post. I suspect when one error is made like that it creates more errors down the line. The misdating is a howler.


38 posted on 05/04/2023 7:05:04 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Nextrush

In addition to the long range missile Soviets had installed some 80 FKR cruise missiles with 14 KT warhead (Hiroshima size) and range of 90 miles (150 km)

These were unknown to US intelligence and had been launched would have totally destroyed any US invasion force


39 posted on 05/04/2023 7:06:25 PM PDT by njslim
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To: Nextrush

What a crock.
So JFK who stood down the Russians and risked WW3,
warned everyone to never again do what he had just done.

Does not compute.


40 posted on 05/04/2023 7:20:48 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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