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  • A big puzzle about the fascination with the Cuban Missile Crisis is:

  • Problem is, you are not prepared

  • for the change that takes place in here...

  • and in here- in your gut

  • and I can guarantee you that none of the people in Moscow, or in Washington

  • who were managing this (and probably a lot of them in Cuba)

  • nobody really could figure out:

  • Khrushchev thinks that Kennedy wants a war?

  • "I saw him last year, he didn't seem like that kind of a guy..."

  • Now Castro has his own problems.

  • It's a crisis

  • Crisis... think about that.

  • Repeat this word over and over again.

  • What if that was on your shoulders?

  • Put that load up here, unexpected, and you start to crack... crumble.

  • You're in a crisis.

  • This was discussed, a coup, the military takes over and they launch...

  • You don't prepare, that's why you have to get rid of the weapons.

A big puzzle about the fascination with the Cuban Missile Crisis is:

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