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"Violence is never the answer" unless it is white people doing it (lemmy.ml)
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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because land barriers matter to a country with nuclear deterrence.

If that were true, then why did the Cuban missile crisis happen? And didn’t the Kursk incursion disprove the theory that nuclear weapons guarantee deterrence? This is as much about NATO placing nuclear weapons to within minutes of Moscow and other major civilian centers and strategic locations as it is about the three times that Russia was invaded via Ukraine in the last two hundred or so years.

[–] thePicard@sh.itjust.works -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Easy, limited range on the missiles.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The nukes sent to Cuba through Operation Anadyr were because

  1. The Soviets were responding to nuclear Jupiter missiles the US placed in Turkey (right on the USSR's doorstep, and which Kruschev managed to negotiate a withdrawal of alongside the nukes sent to Cuba as a deal on the condition that this withdrawal remain secret so Kennedy could protect his image)

  2. As a response to West Germany violating the agreed upon borders and placing a NATO base in East German territory, and

  3. To prevent a full-scale invasion of Cuba that the US was preparing for.