US Rejection of 'Civilized Realism' Makes World Scarier Today Than During Cuban Missile Crisis

Sunday is the 61st anniversary of the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis – the October 1962 diplomatic and military emergency which brought the USA and the USSR to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Boris Mezhuev, a leading Russian specialist on American politics, tells Sputnik why the present crisis in Russian-US relations is even more dangerous.

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