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The Russians did/do this all the time, although mostly on the East Coast. There wasn't any reaction until they started moving missiles to Cuba though...

tut-urut-utut on Sept 29, 2021 [–]

To cite Kennedy: “Are those Russians crazy? Putting missiles in Cuba is the same as if we put our missiles in Turkey”.

“But Mr. President, we already have our missiles in Turkey”.

Nowadays those missiles are much closer to Moscow than ever before.

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