[thombat]

Which directly followed the USA stationing Jupiter missiles in Turkey with the range to strike Moscow. As part of the mutual climb down from the missile crisis the USA removed the Jupiters, as both sides then understood the wisdom of avoiding hot brinkmanship

[GJim]

It's genuinely amazing how few people in the USA appear to be aware of what you have written.

It'd be nice to put jingoism aside for a change.

[satao]

americans are the most brainwashed people on earth when you consider how naïve of their own propaganda they are

[amanaplanacanal]

Which in hindsight seems like just a sideshow, since both sides already had ICBMs in development that can strike from anywhere in the world.