Biden Says ‘Armageddon’ Closer Than 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that the world is closer to Armageddon than it has been since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis at the height of the Cold War. “We have the threat of nuclear weapons if things continue as they have been.”
Biden noted that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is in a difficult situation to find a way out — especially after the latest military setback in Ukraine — and that he is likely looking for solutions that will allow him to save face. Thus, he added that he knows him “pretty well” and is not kidding when he says that he could use this weapon because his armed forces are performing at a lower level than expected.
The missile crisis, known in Cuba as the “October Crisis”, occurred in October 1962: the United States discovered on the 15th of that month that the USSR had installed 42 missiles with intermediate-range nuclear warheads in Cuba, which were aimed at its territory. , and then President John F. Kennedy publicly denounced it on the 22nd.
The return of the Guantanamo base, the lifting of the financial embargo and the end of ideological sabotage and propaganda activities, acts of piracy off the coast of Cuba and sabotage were the points that the then leader Fidel Castro would bring to the negotiations. On the brink of nuclear confrontation, Kennedy and then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev exchanged letters on October 25 and 28, 1962, negotiating a resolution to the crisis.
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Source: El Diario
