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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 21, 2021 and September 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “because a larger power that supported it could cut off trade … nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis”; “I found Cuban Missile Crisis analogies helpful here”; “You could argue Cuban Missile Crisis was worse than Petrov”. It most often appears alongside America, Elon Musk, EU.

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  • Category: Events
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: May 21, 2021
  • Last seen: September 10, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Your Book Review: The Accidental Superpower
May 21, 2021 · Original source
These predictions include some persuasive analysis of many countries and plenty of speculation to go with it. Zeihan spends a chapter highlighting America’s partners in the chaos to come. At the top of the list are its North American neighbors, and a prediction that Cuba will be pulled back into the American orbit (because a larger power that supported it could cut off trade with the greater Mississippi system – Zeihan’s summary of exactly why America was willing to risk nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis). He also gives some analysis of the geography of South America and how it affects their trading patterns, and of the best European allies for various purposes (Denmark and the Netherlands control access to the Rhine and Baltic Sea, making them valuable allies). He runs through the trade of Southeast Asia and suggests that American cooperation in the area could have a strategic benefit of helping to “keep China and India apart.”
Ukraine Thoughts And Links
March 08, 2022 · Original source
I found Cuban Missile Crisis analogies helpful here: the US also gets nervous when enemy powers are right on its doorstep. So it’s not crazy for Russia to be worried. Still, Putin also uses a lot of “Ukraine is a fundamentally illegitimate country whose very existence is an affront to Russia” rhetoric. Seems like he has a beef besides potential NATO membership (which everyone agreed wasn’t really going to happen).
Contra DeBoer On Temporal Copernicanism
September 10, 2024 · Original source
The Toba supervolcano is over-rated. You could argue Cuban Missile Crisis was worse than Petrov, but that just brings us back 60 years instead of 40, which I think still proves my point.
Inline links: over-rated.