• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is Che Guevara, the George Washington of Cuba, talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis:

    While expounding on the incident later, Guevara reiterated that the cause of socialist liberation against global “imperialist aggression” would ultimately have been worth the possibility of “millions of atomic war victims”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

    Dude wanted to fire them off and the Soviets told him to pipe down. This is the insanity their government was founded on.

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      1 year ago

      Just a reminder that the US dropped two atomic bombs on huge civilian targets, had top generals who lobbied hard to use nukes in Vietnam, and a recent president who wanted to use them in Afghanistan, and on a hurricane. This is the insanity of Cuba’s greatest historical enemy.

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      1 year ago

      He is coming from a country that suffered terrorist attacks organized by the US (Operation Mongoose), being ready to fire his country’s deterrent weapons if they don’t stop receiving such attacks makes sense to me.