The Cuban Missile Crisis is taught in American schools as the moment the world almost ended because the Soviets put nuclear weapons in Cuba.
It is almost never taught as:
The moment the United States discovered what it felt like to have nuclear weapons pointed at it from nearby, which was the permanent reality of every Soviet city that had lived under American nuclear targeting from bases in Turkey, Italy, and Britain for years before the Cuban deployment.
The Soviets put missiles in Cuba specifically because the United States had missiles in Turkey pointed at Soviet cities.
Kennedy's team knew this.
They negotiated a secret deal: the Soviets would remove the Cuban missiles, the Americans would remove the Turkish missiles.
The American removal was kept secret from the public for decades because admitting it would have revealed that the resolution of the crisis was a mutual concession, not an American victory, and that the Soviet position had a strategic logic that American audiences were not supposed to understand.
The lesson taught to American children:
Soviet aggression.
American resolve.
Crisis averted.
The lesson the Soviets drew:
We deployed the weapons. We achieved the withdrawal of the Turkish missiles. We established that the Americans will negotiate when the cost becomes real.
The lesson for everyone watching:
Deterrence works in both directions.
That is why the powerful try so hard to ensure it only flows in one.
Leaked emails show MI5 directors secretly lobbying for the UK govt to label the IRGC a terrorist entity, and for the UK to adopt the repressive National Security Act
These leaks expose how the MI5 influences Downing Street and hypes non-existent threats
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🧵Before becoming a UN expert I spent years researching forced displacement in Palestine since the advent of Zionism and British colonialism.
A refuge for millions, for Palestine's Indigenous people Israel meant catastrophe. Once you know you cant unknow. The rest is integrity 👇
Israeli soldiers are reportedly torturing Dr Abu Safya --a pediatrician, for God's sake!
Without strong pressure on Israel, these may could be his last hours.
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THIS IS SATANIC ✡️🇮🇱
An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade into a car carrying a Palestinian family, trapping them inside to absorb the blast.
Reports confirm one of the children inside is now permanently blinded for life.
It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.
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@grok@HenMazzig@bekhayalime Strange they can see the sky in a bomb shelter.. @grok you do know Israelis setup an observation deck in Sderot to watch the Gaza destruction like it's some tourists spot right...
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URGENT! For any country where (from Italy to Thailand or Brazil) possible war criminals go on holiday and R&R. 🇮🇱 soldiers must be investigated, evidence assessed, and responsibility determined through DUE PROCESS.
This is not incitement to commit violence. It is accountability.
🇧🇷🇨🇺🚨Lula acaba de decir lo que el mundo ha estado pensando. «Detengan este maldito bloqueo a Cuba y dejen que el pueblo cubano viva su vida». Cuba tiene problemas. Pero son problemas de Cuba. No de Lula. No de Trump. No del imperio.
Estados Unidos ha castigado a Cuba durante décadas. Sanciones. Bloqueos. Intentos de cambio de régimen. Nada de eso funcionó. Los cubanos siguen en pie. Siguen sobreviviendo. Siguen esperando que el mundo les permita respirar.
Lula no está suplicando. Está exigiendo. El bloqueo no es política. Es crueldad. Y el mundo está cansado de mirar.
Difundan la verdad. Cuba libre. No de sus líderes. Del bloqueo. Dejen que el pueblo cubano viva.
Corruption is nothing new in US politics, but the billionaire Trump has taken it to a whole new, extreme level.
Trump was forced to disclose 3,700 financial transactions conducted in 3 months, from January through March.
The value of his trades was between $220 million and $750 million. Up to $750,000,000 in one quarter!
The sitting US president is using insider information to speculate in the stock market, in trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars every quarter.
If you don't think the government policies Trump implements are influenced by his financial interests, you are extremely naive. This is as corrupt as it gets.
Actual Christianity is not illegal in China.
"Christian" missions - the same ones used by the West to colonize and dominate much of the world in past centuries - IS illegal precisely because it is sedition hiding behind and poisoning religion.
All the US proves by making an issue out of this is expose the fact the US has simply picked up where Europe left off abusing religion for political interference and domination around the globe.
@WillowdaleHaven@M1K454Ackerman@Asmongold@blqckplqguej Sadly the corrupted scums running the US has hoodwinked Americans into thinking they need to support US military intervention overseas for "national security". To them, the US military is just a tax-funded mercenary for their private use. Absolutely vile.
🚨HOLY SHIT !!!!!
Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission.
He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank.
Repost this. Please I beg you