October 14, 1962 is usually considered as the beginning of the "Cuban Missile Crisis," even in some Russian media like Sputnik today. Because on that date a US Air Force U-2 spy plane took pictures confirming the deployment of Soviet R-12 missiles on Cuba.

But why were the missiles deployed? In the United States it is presented as another act of "aggression" from the USSR, omitting the fact that a year earlier, in 1961, the United States began deploying its PGM-19 Jupiter nuclear tipped medium-range ballistic missiles in Turkey that were able to reach Moscow, to say nothing of the Eastern European parts of the USSR. The USSR realized they were defenseless against those unless they achieved nuclear parity by deploying missiles in Cuba. But of course the real beginning of this missile crisis dates back not only to the beginning of the Cold War, but to the creation of the USSR and, way before that, to the Big Bang Theory, when history and maths were created out of nothing by Christian God. Hegel spoke of the "slaughter-bench of history." It is. Shit's nasty. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles, so what do you expect, really?

In Cuba, the entire event is called The October Crisis (Crisis de Octubre), in Russia, the Carribean Crisis (Карибский кризис).

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  • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    it's kinda wild that the slow increasing inaccess to food has gotten less of a response from people than not being able to buy plastic shit for christmas. I will simply snuggle up in my blanket and watch on knowing this is the beginning of the end of the imperial decadence :comfy:

    • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      the UK has extreme food poverty, for a so called developed first world country, but yeah lets all panic you can't buy a moulded plastic harry potter wand for £30

      • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        but it is kinda wild now every day I read the news there's something new that's running a shortage, some new extreme weather from the climate, some new political instability, but the libs all see these as extraordinary things and not clear signs that the system is in collapse due to fundamental structural flaws

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah on my lunch break I passed a very long line of cars for a food giveaway at noon. I wouldn't have expected that big of a turn out in the area I work tbh, so that was pretty eye opening

    • WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided]M
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      3 years ago

      And good thing the climate hasn't changed in a way that more frequent freak weather events that can devastate crop yields aren't also happening that can add further food supply shocks, amirite?