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Originally Posted by asoiafdude  Just like in the Cold War, when we had the USSR remove missiles that could hit us when we kept plenty of our missiles that could hit them. |
Sorry to butt in, but since you made a pretty ignorant remark about a historical event concerning a second party, I choose to intervene. The Cuban Missile Crisis ended ONLY AFTER US agreed to remove Jupiter missiles from Turkey which could have hit Russia. If the US didn't agree to our demands, there was no way our missiles (which were a generation ahead), would have got away from Cuba. The BM treaty that followed had an agreement that neither countries would deploy nuclear missiles in the other's neighbours.
English Source: "How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" by Robert McNamara
Original Source: Radio Moscow and declassified documents on the "Carribean Crisis" in Russian.
Just as an advice, if you make an ignorant judgement, don't think asking non-Americans to keep out would save you from the ridicule of being ignorant.