Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 - Max Hastings
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From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings.
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.
Max Hastings’s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia and Kennedy’s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned.
Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers.
To contend with today’s threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet.
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| Comment: | From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings.
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max Hastings’s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia and Kennedy’s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned. Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers. To contend with today’s threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet. |
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This post has 16 comments with rating of 5/5
January 27th, 2023
Hastings is a sharp historical & political observer. The “rape of Ukraine” is indeed a profound concern for us all.
January 27th, 2023
Maybe it shouldn’t try and join NATO then to destabilise the region?
January 27th, 2023
Blaming the victim of the rape for being raped is something you ought to avoid.
The nauseating Putin prop bots do it automatically.
January 27th, 2023
Again, not a very helpful analogy - not only distasteful but utterly devoid of relevance.
We all know that the USA offered cast-iron guarantees that it wouldn’t encroach into ex-USSR soviet satellite nations after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR in 1991, and yet it did, and here we are. The USA’s security guarantees are provably worthless and it’s not trustworthy.
Ukraine didn’t need and still doesn’t need to be a part of NATO to have peace and stability, and yet it has the USA’s hand, and arm, so far up its arse that it is in effect a vassal state. This is in no ones interest, least of all the people of Ukraine, Russia or Europe.
You don’t need to excuse Russian aggression to understand, in an intellectual and historical sense, that we could all see what the USA was up to and that it’s in violation of multiple international agreements and is fermenting dissent. You, and I, will be in the downwind of this nuclear blast - that’s not smart or cleaver no matter how much you like using the word rape.
You’d think you, as someone from a nation that’s been on pointy, sharp, bloody end of a British bayonet, that you’d have the foresight to recognise imperialism when it smacked you round the chops with its bellend, but you don’t.
That’s concerning.
January 27th, 2023
You missed the original symbol, that of the “rape of Ukraine” (it’s there in the description) - and the entire brutal invasion by Putin is far more than merely “distasteful.” Indeed you are blaming the victim of the Russian imperialist rape.
“Ukraine didn’t need and still doesn’t need to be a part of NATO to have peace and stability” - I’m not even going to attempt to gloss this one. It’s one of the most mindlessly stupid ass-ertions I’ve yet seen on the site. Indeed, it’s not merely stupid, it’s actually stoopid.
“it is in effect a vassal state” - Putin’s objective for all his neighbours. But that’s bitten him in his arse now.
“historical sense” - In this specific context, read & learn about the Holodomor. Learn this, and discover one of the myriad reasons why Russia is regarded with fear & distrust by its neighbours.
I’ll pass over the provocatively insensitive & racist mockery, as that’s not the point here.
As I explained to the other power-worshipping Putin bots, Russia is a nuclear power, & a belligerent military actor. It is the dominant & ever-present threat in the region. It is blatantly pursuing its interests of brute power & imperialism, at the expense of its neighbours.
It is Russia’s neighbours who are at constant risk from this military threat & coercion.
Sovereign countries have the sovereign right to pool their sovereignty or join international agreements. The right not to be brutally invaded & annexed.
Putin’s despotic actions directly cause neighbouring states to join NATO, in order to gain some measure of protection & security.
Why absolutely believe all weaponised Russian state propaganda? Why not finally extend some logical scepticism to that also?
Putin’s mindlessly stupid actions have been wholly counterproductive. Russia is a pariah state once more. Would peaceful diplomacy not have been more prudent, as compared to mass murder & terror?
January 27th, 2023
brilliant
January 27th, 2023
“the rape of Ukraine”, that must be the storyboarded name. Invasion didn’t have enough emotion. It discredits the author.
January 28th, 2023
It might just also discredit the brutal invader. But that would be the actus reus.
We must remember that the person who’s really at fault here, in this appalling sequence of events, is Max Hastings.
January 28th, 2023
@FreePalestine. When did Ukraine say it was going to join NATO? Was it perhaps after they deposed Putin’s puppet president and then Russia invaded and occupied the Crimea?
Even if it had, is that not its right? It has its own government and makes it own choices.
Russia has thousands of nukes. No one is going to invade it, ever. They are only discomfited by not being able to invade their neighbours and rebuild the USSR. And the last year has shown that invading Ukraine was the most stupid possible act for the security of Russia, greatly strengthening and expanding NATO. Ukraine probably will join it eventually now. Thanks to Putin.
January 28th, 2023
No one should ignore the deeply nationalistic and reactionary strand of Russia imperialism that is typified by Aleksandr Dugin - and, disconcertingly, popular with Putin - see here https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/dugin
That said, the USA has been flirting with - and at times actively promoting - Ukraine joining NATO, against all the advice and warnings of those who ‘knew’ this would be the most likely outcome, see here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498491107902062592.html
Like all things in life, it’s complex and nuanced and the evidence shows us both things are true: Putin is not a nice person AND the USA is seeking to destabilise the region by encouraging Ukraine to join an organisation who’s only raison d’etre is containing the now defunct ’soviet menace’, long since consigned to history. NATO has struggled to reinvent itself, first in the ‘global war on terror’, to little effect, and now as a champion of ‘democratic values’ in Eastern Europe. Thing is smart people - and the entire global south’ see through this: NATO is, as it always was, a fig-leaf for American hegemony and power projection, nothing more.
You can scream ‘Putin bad’ all you want – it won’t change anything on the ground: a nuclear armed state, Russia, that has no serious designs on conquering or occupying Europe, is surrounded by nuclear capable warheads pointed at Moscow by a Cold-War era relic of a dying Empire, intent on postponing its inevitable decline in the face of growing powers in the east and from global south.
I , for one, don’t want to be cannon fodder for US imperialist designs. Smart people don’t either.
January 28th, 2023
Thank you so much
January 28th, 2023
@FreePalestine: I don’t hold any brief for the US. But to blame Putin’s attacks on the Ukraine over the last 10 years on the US first and foremost is both crazy and to me reprehensible. Putin is trying to rebuild the USSR as his legacy. He’s getting old, he needs a win, to look like a hero. That’s what it’s all about. He had a puppet, Yanukovych, in Ukraine to do his bidding, who was thrown out in 2014, so Putin invaded.
I don’t know how far Putin wants to go. Ukraine is too far. If he perceived weakness, he’d go further.
No one attacked Russia. Putin is 100% to blame.
“American hegemony and power projection, nothing more.”
Not “nothing more” the treaty is for mutual defence, specifically against the USSR. Now Putin is rolling the clock back.
What NATO did in the Middle Eastor anywher else is a whole other issue, an something Ukraine had nothing to do with. And that does not somehow justify Putin invading Ukraine as a scapegoat.
January 28th, 2023
PS. This is a book about the Cuban Crisis, so I won’t continue argument on other issues.
January 28th, 2023
The USSR is gone. it died in 1991. Russia is not the USSR; it’s not notionally socialist, it’s not democratic (”soviets”) and yet all the same it’s got every right to not want a nuclear-armed USA and it’s puppets on its borders: it has red lines also.
This is the irony: a book about the Cuban crisis and the US’s red lines and yet the inverse isn’t considered in the same light?
February 24th, 2023
Thanks for uploading
March 7th, 2023
“We all know that the USA offered cast-iron guarantees that it wouldn’t encroach into ex-USSR soviet satellite nations after the fall of the Berlin Wall”
It’s curious that Russia apologists always insist that a verbal assurance is binding (it’s not, by any stretch of the imagination, if it was then there would be no need for international treaties), yet they do not feel that Russia’s verbal assurance that it wouldn’t invade Ukraine is binding. Not only that but Russia also *signed* the Budapest Memo, yet that isn’t binding either?
“This is the irony: a book about the Cuban crisis and the US’s red lines and yet the inverse isn’t considered in the same light?”
I wager the apologists wouldn’t support the USA invading Cuba (or Iraq), yet support Russia invading Ukraine. They wouldn’t know moral consistency if it fell out of the sky and bonked them on the head.
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