by evilgenius » Tue 17 Apr 2018, 12:53:49
Does anybody else think it is telling that when Putin put up that short video of his new missiles the other day it was of an attack on Florida of all places? It could be interpreted that he believes that the Cuban missile crisis is still a definitive fulcrum in the minds of your average American. It may signal how ignorant he is concerning how Americans think. Of course, it may also indicate he knows exactly how Russians think. There's a lot of bluff and bluster inherent to how this kind of guessing game goes down, when the real audience you are playing to is the home crowd. The US, and its allies, played into that as well, when they recently stuck the destroyer USS Donald Cook alone in the sea near Syria while firing from a safer distance, such as from the Red Sea. They didn't give the corner Putin had backed himself into too much definition. They let him say he could or would have done a thing, while remaining privately relieved he didn't have to.