Remembering The Cuban Missile Crisis

[poliphilo]

The difference is we took Kennedy and Khrushchev seriously. I'm not sure they were really any wiser or more imposing than Trump and Kim but the world viewed them as statesmen and not as over-tired toddlers. Politics may not have changed in the intervening half century but I think the world has. We're less frightened, less respectful of power, less willing to put up with high level silliness.

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[poliphilo]

In the new movie about the death of Stalin he's played by Steve Buscemi. Now there's a counter-intuitive piece of casting.