@marathon@mastodon.online YEAH, imagine if the Russians tried to put a nuclear base in Cuba threatening the US! We surely would take that as justification to go conquering and bombing and raping just as… wait, hold up, I’m being handed some notes here, let’s see… oh um, folks, gosh, apparently that DID actually happen during the height of the Cold War and we… um… we did not react that way. It looks here like, hmm, there was no war at all? It was worked out peacefully? Nahhh, can’t be right.