CANADA & AMERICA, DEJA VU & RUSSIA
CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS
October 1962
Canadian and America battle ships were prepared to fire on the Soviet ships if they tried to run the blockade.
"The Cuban missile crisis marked the climax of an acutely antagonistic period in U.S.-Soviet relations. The crisis also marked the closest point that the world had ever come to global nuclear war. It is generally believed that the Soviets’ humiliation in Cuba played an important part in Khrushchev’s fall from power in October 1964 and in the Soviet Union’s determination to achieve, at the least, a nuclear parity with the United States."
https://www.britannica.com/event/Cuban-missile-crisis
Our appreciation to the Orlando Sentinel for the photo
"Russia threatens to attack western arms shipments"
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/ukraine-updates-russia-threatens-to-attack-western-arms-shipment
Geopolitics, are they much different now then in 1962? With the possibility of inciting WW3 against the Soviets, America stood by their Monroe Doctrine (Originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US) and refused the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba, albeit America's procrastination resulted in the installation of numerous weapons capable of hitting any U.S. city west of the Mississippi River.
They were removed under an agreement that America remove nuclear armed missiles in Turkey.
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"The crisis also marked the closest point that the world had ever come to global nuclear war."