Geostrategy in the post-1962-Cuban-Missile-Crisis age focuses on preventing any superpower getting the ability to blitz-annihilate another superpower’s central command (or “Government”) so fast that the attacked nation won’t have sufficient time to verify that that attack was launched and then to press the button to release its own retaliatory weapons in response to that blitz. Basically, it’s about — not arms-control treaties, such as the U.S. had signed with the Soviet Union, because they’re not nearly as important — but instead about sheer geography. It is about preventing any missile from becoming placed closer to a superpower’s capital than a 30-minute flight-time away. It is about preventing a blitz nuclear attack against a country’s central command that would behead the country’s Government and thus prevent its response. And the U.S. has been consistently the aggressor in this, and is now trying to get it down to a mere five minutes flight-time away from Moscow.
viewed as weak and analogized to Neville Chamberlain’s notorious Munich Agreement. But then, Kennedy suddenly changed his mind, used exactly the strategy Stevenson had recommended to him, and so the world wasn’t blown up.
On 16 October 2022, Peter Kornbluh headlined “How JFK Sacrificed Adlai Stevenson and the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis” and wrote:
“It took historians some 27 years to fully uncover the record of the missile swap [between Cuba and Turkey]. … None of the early memoirs by top Kennedy aides, such as Schlesinger and Sorensen, contained the real history. These incomplete accounts became the basis of the foreign-policy models and paradigms in political scientist Graham Allison’s [I’ve written extensively about how untrustworthy he is] highly influential book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. A full generation of scholars, analysts, foreign-policy makers, and even presidents learned the wrong lessons from the most significant superpower conflict in modern history.”
Stevenson was then smeared by Kennedy and his scribes, but was the actual — and lone — source of the idea that saved the world from what would likely have otherwise become a nuclear catastrophe. Stevenson turned out to have been, by far, the best of JFK’s advisors.
“one inch to the east [i.e., toward Russia].” And, so, the entire “The West” lied to Gorbachev — double-crossed Russia — in order to become enabled to get its missiles too close to The Kremlin. The U.S. regime was and is the aggressor in this; Russia is merely defending itself from it. But U.S.-and-‘allied’ propaganda asserts the exact opposite. In fact, the Warsaw Pact (countries that Russian forces liberated from Hitler) were never expanded westward. Nor was any such thing ever intended by Russia’s Government. The aggression (not merely invasions, but also coups, and more) came entirely from America. The propaganda simply lies.
after 1990).