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Has any nation ever truly understood or employed diplomacy successfully. Even the British and French are best remembered for their legendary failures than any brief success they might have enjoyed. Ultimately, the world bows only to the will of the one with the biggest stick, and then only begrudgingly. I suspect that the the world breathes easier because the US holds that stick, but ultimately resents us for it regardless of how we may wield it
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LTC Eugene Chu
America has engaged in diplomacy successfully before...
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis | JFK Library
In October 1962, an American U2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. Because he did not want Cuba and the Soviet Union to know that he had discovered the missiles, Kennedy met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem. After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba to prevent the...
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