A Cuba question

[Serconea]

Just something I've been wondering about:

When Fidel Castro goes, who takes over?

[Henneth annun]

His son.

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

Really? I never heard he had family in the first place. I always thought it would be decided by warring generals.

[legatus]

Actually, it would be his brother.

His brother, who is just a tad younger, is one of the original Cuban revolutionaries from the 50's.

[Bad Infinitum]

I thought Osama was next in line? Oh, wait, that's the CIA hit list. Never mind!

[Thewsconia]

lol Ad! Yeah I also heard it was his lil bro.

[Henneth annun]

I must of mixed it up. But Catro still stinks.

[Cyper]

How old is Fidel Castro anyway? He must be at least 200 years old. He just wont die...

[Henneth annun]

He's about 95.

[Cyper]

Wow thats old... And what did he use his life for... Fighting to take over a little cigar making country, piss the rest of the world (particulery the USA and Nato) and last but not least deprive his citizens a free country to live in. Wow great job Fidel

[Lebmania]

He does not piss the US...they left him as an example of the comunism..so the world can see what it is like ,so no one else think about having this regim again.

[Cyper]

NO??? Well he did give you in particuler and the rest of the world for that matter a big scare in the The cuban missile crisis.

[Lebmania]

In less then a day the US can invade the Island..i don't think he ever was a danger . It was a political game between the US and the USSR back then as i remeber .

[Cyper]

Lebmania said:

In less then a day the US can invade the Island..i don't think he ever was a danger . It was a political game between the US and the USSR back then as i remeber .

The USSR placed ICBMs (InterContinental Ballistic Missiles) on Cuba which could reach anywhere in the US mainland. Your leaders where scared shitless. But the USSR was also scared of starting WW3. So they eventually backed down, and disasembled the missiles.

[Lebmania]

Fidel is not stupid,we have to admit that,he new for sure,if he fire a missle against the US,the US gonna hit back and may destroy his country.

[Lebmania]

For that reason he was never a thret because both new that such thing never was gonna take place.

[Lebmania]

And hey,don't beleive everything u see on TV

[Cyper]

Yes that is true. But he had the backing of the USSR, which power was at its peak in 1962. It was kind of a deadlock. If castro fired a missile the us would retaliate, and then the USSR would launch its missiles. The world would be eliminated.

If the US decided to invade Cuba, the USSR would invade West Germany, and throw Europe into the war. Then the US would us its B-52 to bomb the Russian mainland, the USSR would then fire its missiles, the US would retaliate with its missiles, and so would the European nations.= WW3

[Lebmania]

Agree..thanks god nothing happend !

[Cyper]

Yes it is actually somewhat of a miracle...

[Serconea]

The Sovs backed down publicly, but Kennedy made a secret agreement with them that US missiles would be taken out of Turkey a little while later.

The Cuba Missile Crisis is the only time that US forces ever went to Defcon 2.

[Cyper]

Red said:

Yes it is actually somewhat of a miracle...

I qoute myself and still stand by my words. Thanks god nothing happend!

[Serconea]

Harold Macmillian, British PM at the time, apparently only had nightmares about two things- his time in the trenches in World War I and what would happened if Cuba had gone wrong.

[Cyper]

That is also very scary dreams. Everybody allways had that "What if...." question hanging over their heads.