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Just saying that Khrushchev would have threatened hellfire upon them if they didn't withdraw and return them immediately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/hj
This wouldn't have happened at all if Corn man was around.
Preach, there probably would have been Soviet submarines on the coast of Venezuela like months ago 😔
The fall of the USSR was a disaster for humanity. 
With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
:xi-button: Restore savegame. Save to new file 1990s.ess.
Too bad I suck too bad at Crisis in the Kremlin to wriggle myself out of this jam 
Hey that's one of my favourite games ^^'
it would , Khrushchev helped Cuba during the missile crisis and helped Egypt during the Suez Crisis ,there are numerous examples
jackmaoist doesn't mean that khrushchev wouldn't have intervened, but that the US wouldn't be this brazen if the soviet union was around.
oh I misunderstood ,I thought he meant Khrushchev would've not threatened not the opposite
Khrushchev would have threatened to order Soviet spies to poison all the corn in Iowa. 
Cornman says a lot of things, but he still withdrew missiles from Cuba in the end.
The US threatened nuclear war because the USSR did what the US did in Turkey...
It's very hard to make such a decision to really nuke someone when millions of people could die. Even if they are residents of another country...
China is probably pretty happy about this. That whole pivot to Asia that the US was gonna do is not going well. I wish they would do something, but I don't think they will.
It's a dumb strategy in the long term, China won't just eventually face the US all on its lonesome, but a united enslaved world of capitalist client states bent on China's destruction
A world where entire continents are closed off to the Chinese economy, a US empire with all the cannon fodder it needs to break Fortress China
Do nothing, win.... My ass
China says "nooo.. stooooppp. Stop it. Noooooooo.im gonna tell mom. Stooooooppppp"
Or else we will be very very angry with you, and we'll write you a letter telling you how angry we are!