Paul Craig Roberts on the Ukraine and Cuban Missile Crises

[Douglas Caddy]

Paul Craig Roberts on the Ukraine Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK's mature leadership contrasted to America's inept leaders today

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/3/5_Paul_Craig_Roberts_-_The_Entire_World_Is_Now_In_Great_Danger.html

[Douglas Caddy]

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/03/washingtons-arrogance-hubris-evil-set-stage-war/

[Barry Keane]

We must heed the lessons of history. The Cuban Missile Crisis came to a peaceful because of the courage of JFK and to a large extent RFK.

Unfortunately leaders of their calibre are rare and their deaths are all the more tragic because of that fact. This generation should be in no doubt that they were truly great men. Our very existence stands testament to their courage.

[Martin Blank]

We must heed the lessons of history. The Cuban Missile Crisis came to a peaceful because of the courage of JFK and to a large extent RFK.

Unfortunately leaders of their calibre are rare and their deaths are all the more tragic because of that fact. This generation should be in no doubt that they were truly great men. Our very existence stands testament to their courage.

give khruschev some credit, too

Edited March 6, 2014 by Martin Blank

[Thomas Graves]

We must heed the lessons of history. The Cuban Missile Crisis came to a peaceful because of the courage of JFK and to a large extent RFK.

Unfortunately leaders of their calibre are rare and their deaths are all the more tragic because of that fact. This generation should be in no doubt that they were truly great men. Our very existence stands testament to their courage.

give khruschev some credit, too

And let's not forget the Russian submarine officer who voted against his two colleagues (who apparently believed that WW III had already started; the submarine was out of radio contact) and refused to authorize the firing of a nuclear-tipped torpedo at the U.S. destroyer that was "depth charging it" with small, but loud, explosive devices.

Now that's what I call a real close call.

--Tommy

Edited March 6, 2014 by Thomas Graves

[Douglas Caddy]

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/3/7_Paul_Craig_Roberts__Greatest_Threat_The_World_Has_Ever_Known.html

[Barry Keane]

We must heed the lessons of history. The Cuban Missile Crisis came to a peaceful because of the courage of JFK and to a large extent RFK.

Unfortunately leaders of their calibre are rare and their deaths are all the more tragic because of that fact. This generation should be in no doubt that they were truly great men. Our very existence stands testament to their courage.

give khruschev some credit, too

And let's not forget the Russian submarine officer who voted against his two colleagues (who apparently believed that WW III had already started; the submarine was out of radio contact) and refused to authorize the firing of a nuclear-tipped torpedo at the U.S. destroyer that was "depth charging it" with small, but loud, explosive devices.

Now that's what I call a real close call.

--Tommy

All credit to the Russian. The difference is he didn't get his brains blown out of his head as a result of his humanity!

[Thomas Graves]

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/3/7_Paul_Craig_Roberts__Greatest_Threat_The_World_Has_Ever_Known.html

Douglas,

I suppose another way of looking at it is that Putin is doing to the Crimea part of Ukraine what Hitler did to the Sudentenland part of Czechoslovakia in 1938.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-barber/sudetenland-world-war-ii_b_4908017.html

--Tommy

PS.....

FWIW, Russian media reported that forces which appeared in Crimea and which displayed no national or other insignia were pro-Russia volunteer militias defending Crimean autonomy, but a Finnish military expert has analyzed some photos of the these forces and concluded that there is a 99% probability that they are High Readiness Forces of the Russian Federation, specifically the 45th Spetsnaz Regiment.

http://www.suomensotilas.fi/en/artikkelit/crimea-invaded-high-readiness-forces-russian-federation

One of the soldiers "captured" on film by CNN said he was a Russian. At 1:00 of the first video.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/03/01/nr-magnay-russian-soldiers-present.cnn.html

Updated on 3/13/14:

Former Ukrainian President Kravchuk says Putin's actions could spark WW III.

http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-crisis-could-spark-third-world-war-former-communist-party-leader-president-kravchuk-warns

In passing, the article does mention the Cuban Missile Crisis a couple of times.

Interesting that Kravchuck is a former communist Ukrainian political leader (who quit the CP 1n 1991) and that in 2004 he actually supported the recently ousted pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarch Yanukovych, but later in 2010 switched his support to Yanukovych's pro-West political opponent.

--Tommy

Edited March 13, 2014 by Thomas Graves

[Thomas Graves]

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2014/3/7_Paul_Craig_Roberts__Greatest_Threat_The_World_Has_Ever_Known.html

Douglas,

I suppose another way of looking at it is that Putin is doing to the Crimea part of Ukraine what Hitler did to the Sudentenland part of Czechoslovakia in 1938.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-barber/sudetenland-world-war-ii_b_4908017.html

--Tommy

PS.....

FWIW, Russian media reported that forces which appeared in Crimea and which displayed no national or other insignia were pro-Russia volunteer militias defending Crimean autonomy, but a Finnish military expert has analyzed some photos of the these forces and concluded that there is a 99% probability that they are High Readiness Forces of the Russian Federation, specifically the 45th Spetsnaz Regiment.

http://www.suomensotilas.fi/en/artikkelit/crimea-invaded-high-readiness-forces-russian-federation

One of the soldiers "captured" on film by CNN said he was a Russian. At 1:00 of the first video.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/03/01/nr-magnay-russian-soldiers-present.cnn.html

Updated on 3/13/14:

Former Ukrainian President Kravchuk says Putin's actions in Ukraine could lead to WW III.

http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-crisis-could-spark-third-world-war-former-communist-party-leader-president-kravchuk-warns

(For what it's worth, the article does mention the Cuban Missile Crisis a couple of times in passing.)

It's interesting that Mr. Kravchuck, with long, close ties to Russia, is a former communist Ukrainian political leader who quit the CP and became Ukraine's first elected president in 1991, serving in that role into 1994. In 2004 he actually supported the recently-ousted, corrupt, pro-Putin Ukrainian oligarch Yanukovych, but in 2010 switched his support to Yanukovych's pro-West political opponent.

I believe he really knows what he's talking about.

--Tommy

updated and bumped

Edited March 14, 2014 by Thomas Graves