{"id":243179,"date":"2023-09-04T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=243179"},"modified":"2023-08-29T04:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:42:49","slug":"the-last-time-a-foreign-military-threat-was-placed-near-the-us-border-the-world-almost-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/09\/the-last-time-a-foreign-military-threat-was-placed-near-the-us-border-the-world-almost-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Time a Foreign Military Threat Was Placed Near the US Border, the World Almost Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To demand that Russia and China tolerate foreign activities on their borders that the US would never even think about tolerating on its own borders is just demanding that the entire world lie down and submit to being ruled by Washington. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

27 Aug 2023 – <\/em>It\u2019s ridiculously hypocritical for westerners to condemn Russia and China for responding aggressively to the US empire building up military threats on their borders<\/a>, because the last time a credible military threat was placed near the border of the United States, the US responded so aggressively that it almost ended the world.<\/p>\n

I point out this hypocrisy not because hypocrisy in and of itself is an especially terrible sin\u200a\u2014\u200athere are much worse things you can be in life than a hypocrite\u200a\u2014\u200abut to flag the fact that people who think Russia and China should tolerate US actions on their borders that the US would never tolerate on its own borders actually believe the United States should rule the world.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth spending some time learning about the Cuban Missile Crisis for a number of reasons in the 2020s. First, in a time of soaring hostilities between nuclear-armed governments it\u2019s probably good to have a lucid understanding of how close humanity came to wiping itself out in 1962, and the fact that total nuclear war was averted by a single dissenting decision<\/a> by a single Soviet officer on a nuclear-armed submarine that was being bombarded by the US navy. Second, in an environment where talk of peace negotiations and compromise are regarded as treasonous Kremlin loyalism it\u2019s good to have an understanding of the fact that the only reason we survived that perilous standoff was because Washington made compromises<\/a> and pulled its Jupiter missiles out of Turkey and Italy. Third, the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how aggressively the US will respond to a foreign rival placing a military threat near its border.<\/p>\n

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The Single Dumbest Thing The Empire Asks Us To Believe<\/p>\n

The dumbest thing the US-centralized empire asks us to believe is that the military encirclement of its top two geopolitical rivals is a defensive action, rather than an act of extreme aggression.https:\/\/t.co\/LhZW6sQv9I<\/a><\/p>\n

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n