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still_one

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Thu Apr 6, 2017, 09:48 PM Apr 2017

No doubt the military convinced trump to sign the order to launch the missiles, and no doubt as some [View all]

have pointed out, trump was only too willing to sign it, not only to distract away from his scandals, but to demonstrate just how macho he thinks he is.

During the Cuban Missile crisis, Curtis E. Lemay and a few other generals were trying to encourage John Kennedy to make a first strike with nuclear weapons against Russia. If someone like trump was in charge then instead of Kennedy, we might not be discussing this now

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