the one fun thing about if the PRC naval blockades Taiwan would be half of America comparing it to the Berlin Crisis and the other half comparing it to the Cuban embargo.
that lets the nearby major power control the regional sea
formally sovereign territory but they’re a friendly vassal right?
It continues to be underappreciated the extent to which Crimea was Russia’s Cuba
well for a while it seemed like Cuba might be Russia’s Cuba
Cuba was Russia’s Palestine.
Something you can use at tremendous leverage a very very long away to provoke terribly expensive responses… but they’re a very very long way away and there’s limits to that strategy.
Pictured: The Cuban Missile Crisis
metaphor and analogy, humanity’s greatest gift, greatest curse
