Hell in a Handbasket | It all ended in a dead President.

Forgive me, but I think I've been here before.

The Kremlin was quick to declare "hypothetical scenario" when Interfax reported the Russian Military had been invited to deploy Russian Bombers to Cuba. (NYT, Cuba Reportedly Offers to Host Russian Bombers.)

But this haunting repeat of the Cuban Missle Crisis is a dangerous diplomatic path because the Americans have deployed missle defence in Russia's backyard.

From NYT: In the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet nuclear missiles stationed in Cuba pushed the world to the brink of nuclear conflict after U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced their presence to the world. After a tense week of diplomacy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev removed the missiles.

And about the US Missiles, again from the NYT:

U.S. plans initiated under former President George W. Bush to put elements of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic had particularly irked Russia, although the United States insists they are intended to counter potential future threats from Iran.

Russia has welcomed Obama's apparently more cautious approach to the divisive issue.

Why not joint-responsibility for the missile defense of all involved Nations? Whose side is everyone on? Just as in South America: who would the Russians be protecting, and who would be subject to attack? So in Europe: who would the Americans be protecting, and who would be subject to attack?

The Grand Game of Government. War and Peace. Each war obtains industrial resources. Each peace leads to economic collapse.

The saddest part is that until we go forth with a single global government, we are doomed to continually repeat the cycle of war and resource-based conflict.