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There was a time when Cuba was a nuclear threat to the US and we were all fortunate enough to get out of it alive. Of course we didn't use any negotiation to do it, we just puffed up and beat our chest and in the end the whole world saw that ours was that much bigger
You should quit spreading lies.
Kennedy was 100% responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis to the extent that he actually caused it. If he had listened to Eisenhower and resolved the situation in Cuba, before putting Jupiter missiles on the Soviet border to threaten and terrorize the Russians, then there would have been no way possible for the Soviets to retaliate to the blatantly aggressive US actions by putting missiles in Cuba.
What the whole world saw was that Kennedy was an incompetent bully and when the Soviets refused to play the role of evil empire, he had no choice but to stick his tail between his legs and run away.
Contrary to your misguided beliefs, Kennedy did negotiate. The US withdrew its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviets withdrawing their missiles from Cuba.
As a point of fact, the US withdrew all of the Jupiters before even one single Soviet missile in Cuba was dismantled to be withdrawn.
Kennedy was 100% responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis to the extent that he actually caused it. If he had listened to Eisenhower and resolved the situation in Cuba, before putting Jupiter missiles on the Soviet border to threaten and terrorize the Russians, then there would have been no way possible for the Soviets to retaliate to the blatantly aggressive US actions by putting missiles in Cuba.
What the whole world saw was that Kennedy was an incompetent bully and when the Soviets refused to play the role of evil empire, he had no choice but to stick his tail between his legs and run away.
Contrary to your misguided beliefs, Kennedy did negotiate. The US withdrew its Jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviets withdrawing their missiles from Cuba.
As a point of fact, the US withdrew all of the Jupiters before even one single Soviet missile in Cuba was dismantled to be withdrawn.
It was a brilliant Soviet victory.
Lol, I'm not sure you caught my sarcasm I understand what happened pretty well. I was pretty much trying to say that there is a time and a place for chest thumping, in that instance if we would have puffed our chest and tried to be big and bad it would have turned out much different than it did. Likewise, I think that in our present situation, chest thumping and gun-slinging should be the last option, not the first like many would like to see. Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse
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I understand what happened pretty well. I was pretty much trying to say that there is a time and a place for chest thumping, in that instance if we would have puffed our chest and tried to be big and bad it would have turned out much different than it did. Likewise, I think that in our present situation, chest thumping and gun-slinging should be the last option, not the first like many would like to see. Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse 
