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Dan Romero
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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
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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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