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2021-12-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Lukashenko says he will ask Putin to arm Belarus with NUKES if NATO sends similar weapons to Poland as Putin warns the alliance not to cross his 'red lines' on Ukraine military build-up

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The Ruskies once put nukes into Cuba but weren't stupid enough to let Castro pull the trigger.

And Putin is definitely smarter than Khrushchev.

Posted by European Conservative 2021-12-01 08:05|| 2021-12-01 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Hypersonics greatly diminish the necessity of forward basing nukes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-01 08:09|| 2021-12-01 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 And Kaliningrad is forward enough.

Posted by European Conservative 2021-12-01 08:28|| 2021-12-01 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 ...no 'right of return' there.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-12-01 08:51|| 2021-12-01 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 #1 The Ruskies once put nukes into Cuba but weren't stupid enough to let Castro pull the trigger.
And Putin is definitely smarter than Khrushchev.
Posted by: European Conservative 2021-12-01 08:05

EC,

True to both of those - but always remember that we know now that Castro came within an ace of telling his own people, "Screw it and launch the missiles yourself"...and at at least one site, the Cuban troops there showed up armed and demanding control of the missiles.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-12-01 09:28|| 2021-12-01 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Indeed. Che Guevara, darling of the Left, would have been the first to destroy the world.

Posted by European Conservative 2021-12-01 09:36|| 2021-12-01 09:36|| Front Page Top

#7 "A few weeks later, Sam Russell, a reporter for the British Marxist paper Daily Worker, interviewed Guevara and found him still incensed over the Soviet betrayal. Che told Russell that if the missiles had been under the Cubans’ control, rather than the Russians’, they would have been fired."

Link

Posted by European Conservative 2021-12-01 09:41|| 2021-12-01 09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 "I know I could make the whole world peaceful and calm, if I could just get my hands on a hydrogen bomb."

Heavy metal Kid, Todd Rundgren

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-01 09:45|| 2021-12-01 09:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, that'll work until China nukes Formosa.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-01 22:17|| 2021-12-01 22:17|| Front Page Top

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