We will no doubt face this same revolutionary question again, I’m not so sure it was handled correctly. Any analysis from better read comrades?
Handled the Americans or by the Soviets?
If it’s the Americans, they could have avoided the Cuban Missile Crisis by not placing nukes next to the USSR. Since they repeated the exact same thing with Ukraine (by inviting them to NATO), I don’t think trusting the West to not push boundaries is wise.
The thing is that our world is not the same as it was in the Crisis. Like, it was feasible for the US to want to nuke the Soviet Union, but not so much nuke China because all their stuff is made there.
China’s strategy is basically make it impossible for the US to ever decouple from China’s industry. Whether that will avoid WWIII remains to be seen.
By the Soviet Union for sure.
It was just empty posturing by the US, they had already planned to move the nukes out of Turkey. Khrushchev, in the end, only abandoned Cuba and directly caused the decades of economic hardship and isolation faced by Cuba.
Then I don’t know what they could’ve done.
Maybe they should’ve established the Moscow-Washington hotline earlier to avoid communication issues. Like, I can imagine a scenario where the US places nukes in Turkiye, then the Kremlin puts nukes in Moscow and calls Washington like “Look, we have placed nukes in Cuba in retaliation for you placing nukes in Turkiye, let’s negociate.”
I’m sure it would’ve caused a crisis, but at least both sides wouldn’t be in the dark.
STRANGELOVE Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world, eh?
AMBASSADOR It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
