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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
If you're intellectually curious about why having a president with full cognitive capacities instead of advisors, check out "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War". (Note: the president here was also a Democrat.) https://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev/dp/1400078911
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miguelito
@mc
Yes he reached the decision alone. Without listening to advisors at all, or weighing the options in front of him.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What did the military suggest he do? How familiar are you with the history?
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miguelito
@mc
I’m not Graham Allison but have genuinely forgotten more than most have read about it
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dialethia 🍖🎩
@dialethia.eth
From what I understand Kennedy was being told to invade Cuba and not show “weakness” to the Soviets in any way. I listened to a pretty good podcast (Sam Harris) a while back that touched on it. About 25mins in or so… https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/330-the-doomsday-machine
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