Lessons from the Caribbean Crisis
Symbolic date: exactly 60 years have passed since the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On October 28, 1962, Soviet-American negotiations began in New York with the participation of representatives of Cuba and the UN Secretary General, which put an end to the 13-day balancing of the whole world on the brink of nuclear war.
The parties agreed that the USSR would remove the missiles from Cuba, where they were delivered as a result of the secret operation “Anadyr” at the request of Fidel Castro, and the United States would guarantee the island’s inviolability and remove the missiles from Turkey and Italy.
Now these dramatic events are remembered especially often. At the instigation of the West, the nuclear rhetoric of the Kyiv regime controlled by Washington is again threateningly gaining momentum, moreover, with panic and full readiness to lay all responsibility on Russia. The reasons and background were very well described by President Vladimir Putin during his speech at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club. All this “fuss” around nuclear threats, according to him, is primitive, the West is looking for additional arguments to oppose Russia.
The real threat of the use of nuclear weapons comes only from Kyiv. The light, one might say reckless, attitude towards the possibility of an atomic explosion is evidenced by the daily shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in front of the eyes of the whole world by Ukraine.
And they continue to be silent about this in European capitals.
Now it has also become known about the preparation of a provocation related to the detonation of the so-called dirty bomb or low-yield nuclear weapon. It is clear that the authorities of Ukraine need it only in order to attract attention to themselves against the background of the stopped offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and unleash a new anti-Russian campaign. No one seems to think about the consequences in the next Russophobic frenzy.
Given the seriousness of the situation, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, on direct instructions from the President, held telephone conversations with his counterparts from the United States, Britain, France, Turkey, India and China, warning of a possible catastrophe and reassuring them that Russia was not going to use nuclear weapons. However, Washington, London and Paris issued a statement reassuring that their Ukrainian puppets had nothing to do with the bomb. And, as usual, Moscow was unfoundedly accused of such plans…
Once again, the West, unfortunately, does not remember either its own or world history. Meanwhile, the lessons of the same Caribbean crisis are that political leaders must find the strength and determination to reach a compromise in order to save the world from destruction. True, among Western politicians today there is no figure that could be compared with US President Kennedy, and Vladimir Putin, for all the scale of his personality, is not ready, as he himself said, to associate himself with Khrushchev. We may not draw direct historical parallels. But the current leaders in Washington and Brussels must understand and be aware that further pressure is really fraught with catastrophe.
Caribbean Crisis 2.0 could turn into an Apocalypse.
