Why is the Cuban Missile "Crisis" seen as having been such a scary event, and yet nobody has the same scary rhetoric about Russian submarines off the US coast for decades now? I genuinely don't know the answer to this.
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because JFK wasn't half the man Biden is
Biden has everything under control
duh !
Maybe because everyone now knows about the Cuban missile crisis while nobody knows anything about any subs you’re talking about? 🤷♂️
Maybe Russian subs aren't there. Maybe it's just what some people think and I heard misinformation. Or maybe they are there and this is the difference between everybody knowing something and "common knowledge" (where everybody also knows that everybody knows).
I suspect no one knows anything about it - real or rumors
that's besides the point.
when the Jews want to cover up some historical fact ( like them having killed JFK ) they begin to produce historical documentaries about all the surrounding effects to make people feel like they know everything on the subject so they won't look deeper.
this is why we get movies about Hitler, Bobby Fischer and so on. they must constantly produce material on their enemies - it is their way of killing the enemy with a second death.
surrounding *events* not *effects* ( typo )
the entire point of public education ( which is the same thing as media and hollywood ) is to teach us everything that is either a lie or irrelevant so we don't learn anything that is true and vital to know.
the point is to drown out the signal with the noise and make people sick of even the thought of learning anything about history after forcing them to memorize all the irrelevant dates and so on.
After the Soviet Union dissolved they weren't patrolling until recently from what I understand. So an entire generation has grown up not really fearing nuclear weapons. Time to get educated. Hell I remember having nuclear attack drills at school during the Cold War!
The world no longer accepts the "do as we say, not as we do" policies of the US. They are beginning to find the bodies.
I am spitballing but I think it's because a survivable (submarine-based) second strike capability wasn't considered a given at the time. Based on very cursory research, both the US and Soviet Union had just barely gotten subs to be able to carry nukes, and I am guessing those nukes weren't as capable and well-tested as traditional non-underwater nuke launching platforms. Once both the US and USSR had nukes they could station in the ocean wherever they wanted rather secretly, it became hard to detect them and rather pointless to try to evict them since they'd just move and find another nearby secret hiding spot. If anything, if you spotted an enemy nuclear sub, you'd want it to stay there since you now knew where 1/10th of their second strike capability was located and could use that information to your advantage. In other words, getting the soviets to move their nukes out of Cuba significantly reduced the amount of the US they could "hold at risk" at any point in time. Making them move their nuclear submarines around doesn't.