JRL NEWSWATCH: “Russia Warns of Repeat of 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis” – Reuters

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“… [regarding] U.S. deployment of land-based missile systems near Russia’s borders …. ‘If things get as far as an actual deployment on the ground of these sorts of systems, then the situation won’t just get more complicated, it will escalate right to the limit,’Sergei Ryabkov file photo RIA news agency quoted [Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei] Ryabkov as saying. ‘We could find ourselves in a situation where we have a rocket crisis close not just to the crisis of the 1980s but close to the Caribbean crisis,’ Ryabkov said, using the standard Russian term for the Cuban missile crisis. … Putin made similar remarks in February … [after U.S. statements regarding withdrawal from the INF Treaty if Russia did not come into INF Treaty compliance, while Russia denied it was in noncompliance].”

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