the arrogance and ignorance of the empire just keeps on amazing me;

US Headed Toward "Cuban Missile Crisis" Situation Over Ukraine: Kremlin

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov issued a dire warning on Thursday, saying amid the soaring Ukraine tensions that Russia and the US could end up in a situation resembling the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He statements were meant to spur the two sides on toward entering deconfliction talks, to hammer together a "reasonable agreement" that aims to prevent further NATO expansion eastward, which is a "red line" of Putin.

"You know, it could quite possibly reach that point," he responded when asked by a reporter if things could escalate to Cuban Missile crisis levels with Washington and NATO over Donbass. "If comrades on the other side fail to understand us and keep doing what they are doing, we might wake up at some point to see something similar, if that’s what further developments will suggest."........read more.........