The Empire Demands: Pick a Side!
Posted on November 17th, 2022
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Cuba shot down a US U-2 spy plane flying over its airspace on 27 October 1962,
at the peak of what the US media love to call ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis’ – 60 years ago.
The US Navy also attacked a Soviet nuclear submarine B-59,
which auspiciously, we are told, did not escalate the provocation that day.
It’s another of those ‘most dangerous global moments’ that took place, 17 years
after the latest colonial power dropped atomic bombs on Asia, in Japan in 1945
to announce its arrival…1962 was also the year of that coup…
On Thursday, 20 October 2022, US Central Command chief Michael Kurilla visited the Ohio-class West Virginia SSBN (submarine with ballistic nuclear missiles), which ‘specially surfaced’ at ‘an undisclosed location’ in the Arabian Sea, bordering Sri Lanka. Kurilla is a veteran of the US invasions of Panama, Iraq, Haiti, Kosovo, and Bosnia.
SSBNs, called the ‘stealthiest’ US submarines, are armed with 24 Trident II ballistic missiles, each of which can carry up to 10 warheads, in total giving the vessel an ammunition supply of 240 strategic nuclear warheads – ‘a vital component of the US nuclear triad’.
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