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The Establishment's Desperate Demands That Nobody Engage With RFK Jr. Plus: Does Cuba Have the Right to Host Chinese Bases on Its Soil? | SYSTEM UPDATE #103

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The u.s.'s Response to the Cuban Missile Crisis

The cuban missile crisis lasted for several week weeks is remembered as the hottest moment in the cold war between east and west. u.s. forces around the world replaced on alert four tactical air squadrons were ready for airstrikes over kuba with missile sitesAirfield sports and gun emplacements as their potential targets more than a hundred thousand troops were sent to florida for a possible invasion of kuba. 40,000 marines b-52s loaded with nukor weapons were in the air at all times. The question then becomes how is it that we can tell russia that they just have to swallow the flooding of ukraine right over their border with all kinds of western

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