{"id":129997,"date":"2022-11-17T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129997"},"modified":"2022-11-17T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:13:42","slug":"the-empire-demands-pick-a-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/17\/the-empire-demands-pick-a-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Demands: Pick a\u00a0Side!"},"content":{"rendered":"

e-Con e-News<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n

Cuba<\/em><\/strong> shot down a US U-2 spy plane<\/strong> flying over its airspace on 27 October 1962,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

at the peak of what the US media love to call \u2018The Cuban Missile Crisis\u2019 \u2013 60 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Navy also attacked a Soviet nuclear submarine B-59,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

which auspiciously, we are told, did not escalate the provocation that day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s another of those \u2018most dangerous global moments\u2019 that took place, 17 years<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

after the latest colonial power dropped atomic bombs on Asia, in Japan in 1945<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

to announce its arrival\u20261962 was also the year of that coup\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, 20 October 2022, US Central Command chief<\/strong> Michael Kurilla visited the Ohio-class West Virginia SSBN<\/em><\/strong> (submarine with ballistic nuclear missiles), which \u2018specially surfaced\u2019<\/strong> at \u2018an undisclosed location\u2019 <\/strong>in the Arabian Sea, bordering Sri Lanka. Kurilla is a veteran of the US invasions of Panama, Iraq, Haiti, Kosovo, and Bosnia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     SSBNs, called the \u2018stealthiest\u2019 US submarines, are armed with 24 Trident II ballistic missiles<\/strong>, each of which can carry up to 10 warheads<\/strong>, in total giving the vessel an ammunition supply of 240 strategic nuclear warheads<\/strong> \u2013 \u2018a vital component of the US nuclear triad\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Empire Demands: Pick a Side!<\/a><\/blockquote>