Cuban Missile Crisis: Version 2.0 - Now with more douchebaggery!

In 1962 Russia place missiles in Cuba stating that they were only to add to Cuba's defense. (Admittedly not entirely unwarranted as the United States had attempted a coup d'tat on the Cuban government not too long before during the Bay of Pigs incident.) This was in response to the United States placing nuclear capable missiles in Turkey, and was one of times during the Cold War that there was a distinct fear of nuclear warfare.

Under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorse by the resolution of Congress:

It shall be the policy of this nation that any launch from Cuba on any nation in the western hemisphere will be consisted an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response on the Soviet Union

I call on Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine reckless and provocative threat to world peace and the stable relationship between our two nations. I call on him further to abandon course of world domination and adjoin in a historic effort to end the perilous arms race and to transform the history of man

Part of the problem was also the presence of missiles in Turkey, which needless to say made the Russians a bit unhappy.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war. In order to abate this crisis the United States pulled the missiles out of Turkey, and Khrushchev dismantled the nukes in Cuba.

Now, fast forward about fifty years. So, sometime around the 14th of this month the US was told by Russia that if they continued trying to place a missile shield in the Czech Republic that Russia would respond with force. In a Russian newspaper called the Kremlin (considered very close to the government of Russia but the Russian administration denies that their hands are tied to the story), Russia contemplates using Cuba as a veritable staging ground for nuclear missiles.

The United States claims that the reason that they want to have a Star Wars defense stationed in the Czech Republic is protection from Iran and their nuclear capabilities, it's also been proven long before this month that Iran simply does not have nuclear capabilities. Iran stopped uranium enrichment four years ago.

If the United States discontinues the Star Wars program, what effect will that have for the possibility of war with Iran? Why was this administration choosing now of all times to build it up, and why did Russia step in to stop it?



History, it seems, is a tool just sharp enough for this administration to impale itself on.