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NNadir

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1. In the early sixties, if I recall correctly, a miltary authority...
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 03:55 PM
Tuesday

...superimposed a map of Cuba on the United States for the benefit of John Kennedy showing it stretched from Washington to Chicago and the discussed American casualties in the taking of Tarawa atoll's 300 acres of the Island of Betio, where over 6000 soldiers died in three days.

Cuba is suffering to be sure and is no doubt weakened but a US invasion is likely to be costly, particularly when incompetent childish thugs try to run it

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