I like RFK Jr. but this is a big “ouch”.
JFK secretly abandoned US bases in Turkey as part of the “deal”.
The Russians got a good deal.
This is total BS. Kruschev was laughing at us. He got everything he had hoped for.
But tue societ union isn’t russia.
Or as we all know, thats a distinction without a difference.
I dont agree with what Biden is doing.
At the same time we shouldn’t ever be afraid of enemies, especially when they are in the wrong.
As I have said before, there is no right side of whats going on in Ukraine. All 3 leaders directly involved need removal and neutralization. This globalist male decimation/europe and america weakening plan needs to be stopped. They are all just hoping it goes nuclear.
63 years later the island remains a prison. Not one American President has seen fit to free those slaves to communism.
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?
We better watch out…Russia might spend a year trying to take a city of 35,000 in eastern Poland.
Here’s 1987 article in the Washington Post discussing the “secret” trade:
There’s a difference between “not read-on” and “not well-read.”
Khrushchev diffused that situation, not Kennedy.
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
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.
I was in Gitmo when this all went down. Those were scary days.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, documentation was made available that we'd never seen before. Kennedy assumed that Russian missile commanders had to get nuclear launch orders from the Kremlin, so he had wide-band radio jamming initiated for Cuba. The Russian documentation revealed that Russian missile commanders may fire anything they have available if they are cut off from higher levels. This is contrary to all other Russian military command structures. The missiles in Cuba were under the command of junior officers, who had the missiles "spun up and targeted". One senior officer placed them in a "wait and see" hold. Had Kennedy made one more aggressive move, they would have launched.
Khrushchev told Kennedy that if the US would lift the jamming he would order an stand down.