Nah, it was because they were butthurt that the cubans kicked them off of their island.
Keep in mind that the establishment were at the oldest teenagers at the time of the crisis
The Turko-Cuban missile crisis was the kind of formative early years trauma to the ruling generation what 9/11 and the great recession have proven to be for the upcoming generation, even worse because it really nearly was the end of the world at several points.
These people didn't know a day without the sword of Damocles over theirs and everyone else's heads for almost 50 years, and to them Cuba is the locus of all of that, especially since China managed to bungle things so spectacularly that Vietnam and the US are technically on "now play nice" terms now.
So you are saying that the reason they havent lift the sanctions is because they were traumatized by the "red scare" and the cold war as teenagers? Because the cuban missile crisis lasted less than a month.
9/11 lasted less than 2 hours. From first impact to last fall.
I can still remember most every detail of that day.
Mass trauma is like that.
The threat of a tragedy is not the same as the tragedy itself. Also, that part of my comment was in response to Phlubba stating that the US was threatened by Cuba for 50 years. That is not true.
I dont dismiss or minimize the trauma that the cold war might have caused on some people, but Cuba's role in it is tiny when compared to that of the US and URSS. Using it to justify 80 years of embargo is absurd.
Nah, it was because they were butthurt that the cubans kicked them off of their island.
Keep in mind that the establishment were at the oldest teenagers at the time of the crisis
The Turko-Cuban missile crisis was the kind of formative early years trauma to the ruling generation what 9/11 and the great recession have proven to be for the upcoming generation, even worse because it really nearly was the end of the world at several points.
These people didn't know a day without the sword of Damocles over theirs and everyone else's heads for almost 50 years, and to them Cuba is the locus of all of that, especially since China managed to bungle things so spectacularly that Vietnam and the US are technically on "now play nice" terms now.
So you are saying that the reason they havent lift the sanctions is because they were traumatized by the "red scare" and the cold war as teenagers? Because the cuban missile crisis lasted less than a month.
9/11 lasted less than 2 hours. From first impact to last fall.
I can still remember most every detail of that day.
Mass trauma is like that.
The threat of a tragedy is not the same as the tragedy itself. Also, that part of my comment was in response to Phlubba stating that the US was threatened by Cuba for 50 years. That is not true. I dont dismiss or minimize the trauma that the cold war might have caused on some people, but Cuba's role in it is tiny when compared to that of the US and URSS. Using it to justify 80 years of embargo is absurd.