The crap going down between Ukraine and Russia or Israel and Hamas is nothing to what happened 40 years ago. Sure, those two conflicts are ongoing but will they lead to nuclear war? Not easily. What St. Reagan did today contributed to the tension you’ll see come to a frightening boil next month.
However, many thought this action was retaliation for an earlier horrible event I forgot to bring up in September; the Soviet Air Force destroying a Korean Airlines jet, killing all 269 aboard including a member of Congress. I won’t go on too much about this other than it was a huge screwup by the Soviets, they knew it as soon as the fighter pilot described the burning debris…that wasn’t a SR-71 Blackbird spy plane! Conspiracy theories continue to go around on this, namely how the CIA knowingly used the airliner to mask an SR-71 in the area. Ergo, the Korean pilots allowing the autopilot to take a shortcut through Soviet space is the coverup. There’s probably a little truth in both ideas since Amerika isn’t very honest about its spy craft failures.
Now with Grenada, St. Reagan and his war machine ginned up a lame-ass story about the tiny island’s government becoming a Soviet dupe so we had to invade. We deployed 9000 soldiers and their support forces to liberate a bunch of American medical students, these were all Dr. Nick types too. The flimsy proof of Soviet skullduggery? Roughly 700 Cuban combat engineers. You know, people who aren’t well trained at fighting and in the case of Cuba, not in peak condition and over 30. They weren’t a serious challenge due to more US troopers being killed in accidents than by bullets; we can also thank the territorial pissing of all four military branches demanding involvement. An ignored lesson from 1980’s failed Iranian hostage rescue.
Did this have any long-term effects? You’ll see in a week or two, no. It was overshadowed by a major TV event.