to what end?
The Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959 saw the 82 man guerrilla force enter Havana and take it under socialist control, Cuba was now Castro's and he quickly made changes, preferably showing off his revolution in the United Nations befriending the Soviet Union and nationalizing the free market system the US set up in Cuba during the time of Batista, the new Cuban economy was made up primarily of sugar cane which was burned by saboteurs who supported the US internally in all provinces in Cuba.
It was the only real wealth they had and made the Castro government angry, yet he had most of the country behind him and some 250,000 ready troops to repel any invasion (set up after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion attempt).
After the Bay of Pig's invasion in which 1,500 Cuban exiles trained by the CIA attacked Cuba was foiled before they could reach Havana and they were then abandoned by their American backers, Castro thinking he was safe and that the west couldn't touch him without serious circumstance he decided to export his socialist revolution to other parts of Latin America, the US military in a threatening manner practiced a mock invasion of another Caribbean island using 40,000 joint marines.
This was a big threat to Castro and Cuban forces were readying for an invasion, however Castro one of the worlds biggest believers in communism decided to directly hit the problem at its source, the United States.
Several Cuban people and CIA agents in Cuba around 1962 have stated that the nuclear ballistic missiles that were sent under the Americans noses to Cuba were literally just parked there, right in the public's eye!
What was at stake during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 for the United States was the possibility of nearly all of its strategic bomber bases and several major cities such as Washington DC, New York City and Dallas which were right under the hammer, only a few cities such as Seattle were out of range.
Robert McNamara stated that in 1992 he had learned something he didn't know before, that was that Castro knew the nukes were there, I quote McNarama as saying exactly this:
"I asked him 3 questions. One- did you know there were nuclear warheads in Cuba? Two- would you have recommended to Khrushchev to use nuclear missiles in the event of an American invasion of Cuba? And three- what would have happened to Cuba? He said, "One- I knew the missiles were there. Two- I would not *have* recommended it, I *did* recommend it! And three- we would have been totally obliterated."
Yes, after the socialist revolution that turned Cuba into exactly what 82 man team had envisioned (Che Guevra another notable member), Castro was ready to sacrifice it all in the ultimate fight that would (in his mind) destroy or at least cripple the center of capitalistic imperialism that was threatening the way of life he saw fit for the world.
It was the only real wealth they had and made the Castro government angry, yet he had most of the country behind him and some 250,000 ready troops to repel any invasion (set up after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion attempt).
After the Bay of Pig's invasion in which 1,500 Cuban exiles trained by the CIA attacked Cuba was foiled before they could reach Havana and they were then abandoned by their American backers, Castro thinking he was safe and that the west couldn't touch him without serious circumstance he decided to export his socialist revolution to other parts of Latin America, the US military in a threatening manner practiced a mock invasion of another Caribbean island using 40,000 joint marines.
This was a big threat to Castro and Cuban forces were readying for an invasion, however Castro one of the worlds biggest believers in communism decided to directly hit the problem at its source, the United States.
Several Cuban people and CIA agents in Cuba around 1962 have stated that the nuclear ballistic missiles that were sent under the Americans noses to Cuba were literally just parked there, right in the public's eye!
What was at stake during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 for the United States was the possibility of nearly all of its strategic bomber bases and several major cities such as Washington DC, New York City and Dallas which were right under the hammer, only a few cities such as Seattle were out of range.
Robert McNamara stated that in 1992 he had learned something he didn't know before, that was that Castro knew the nukes were there, I quote McNarama as saying exactly this:
"I asked him 3 questions. One- did you know there were nuclear warheads in Cuba? Two- would you have recommended to Khrushchev to use nuclear missiles in the event of an American invasion of Cuba? And three- what would have happened to Cuba? He said, "One- I knew the missiles were there. Two- I would not *have* recommended it, I *did* recommend it! And three- we would have been totally obliterated."
Yes, after the socialist revolution that turned Cuba into exactly what 82 man team had envisioned (Che Guevra another notable member), Castro was ready to sacrifice it all in the ultimate fight that would (in his mind) destroy or at least cripple the center of capitalistic imperialism that was threatening the way of life he saw fit for the world.
Labels: cold war, cuba, cuban missile crisis, soviet union
posted by Paul Iddon @ 8:16 PM
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