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At the time, Turkey (Which shared a border with the USSR) had US missile bases, full of nuclear missiles pointed at Moscow. [0] When the situation was equalized, the US lost its mind.

Meanwhile, in the present, 21st century, the US is busy building a missile defense shield in Poland. [1] (While claiming that it is built to defend against, of all places, Iran. [2] Seriously?) It is intended to neuter Russian nuclear capability... Meanwhile, Minutemen ICBMs continue to be able to strike Russia.

I ask again - how would the US react if China, or Russia started building army bases, and anti-ICBM installations in Canada, Mexico, and Cuba? How would the American empire respond to a political incursion into its buffer states?

[0] http://www.ww.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defens...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_...



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