Turnabout is Fair Play - Cuba and Ukraine

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Turnabout is Fair Play - Cuba and Ukraine
Michael Collins

Russia's response to United States and European Union efforts in Ukraine represents a more restrained, lower stakes version of the response by the U.S. to the installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba by the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1962. Today, the headline above could be inverted to read:

Russia Blockades Ukraine, Tells US to 'Lay Off"

More than 50 years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy initiated a naval blockade of Cuba based on photographic evidence of medium range nuclear missile on the island just ninety miles from Florida. In his address to the nation of October 22, 1962, the president declared:

All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back.

Any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union." President John F. Kennedy, Oct 22, 1962

Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Turnabout-is-Fair-Play--C-by-Michael-Collins-Cuban-Missile-Crisis_JFK_Russia_Ukraine-140501-344.html

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I always love self-proclaimed experts who can't even get the names of countries right. nt

[freedom fighter jh]

2. But what does Russia have to fear

from a coup in an adjoining country supported by a superpower thousands of miles away?