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Europe

Matlock on escalating war: 'It’s hard to see how we get out of this'

The former American ambassador spoke at a recent retrospective on the Cuban Missile Crisis and lamented the lessons lost.

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Global Crises

What ever happened to our fear of Armageddon?

Subsequent efforts to cut arsenals or keep weapons from 'bad guys' have inured the public from the real danger: the nukes themselves.

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Europe

How did we avoid a Cuban Missile 'Armageddon'? Strategic empathy.

The ability of both Kennedy and Khrushchev to understand each other in October 1962 is a lesson for the US and Russia in 2022.