Collision Resistance@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoUkraine’s average soldier is 43. How can they keep Putin at bay?www.thetimes.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down129file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
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minus-squareHyperreality@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·edit-210 months ago which was a direct response to the US putting missiles in Turkey and Italy. 1961-1963: In April 1959, the secretary of the Air Force issued implementing instructions to USAF to deploy two Jupiter squadrons to Italy. The two squadrons, totaling 30 missiles, were deployed at 10 sites in Italy from 1961 to 1963. … In October 1959, the location of the third and final Jupiter MRBM squadron was settled when a government-to-government agreement was signed with Turkey. The U.S. and Turkey concluded an agreement to deploy one Jupiter squadron on NATO’s southern flank. One squadron totaling 15 missiles was deployed at five sites near İzmir, Turkey from 1961 to 1963, 1959: Three years before the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviet Union had already placed nuclear weapons on foreign soil - in this wood, in what was then East Germany. … the first foreign Soviet nuclear base was so well hidden that no fuss was made. But intelligence agencies in West Germany, the US, the UK and France had a good idea what was going on. … According to secret American intelligence reports released since the end of the Cold War, the base was set up in 1959 …
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