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To: skinowski who wrote (755783)	1/24/2022 12:40:26 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793817

Grenada is a very small country. And apparently it was thought that the situation is getting chaotic and dangerous and then the American students at the med school were in danger. And to the extent that it was about a move to the Soviets sphere and not about the American students, it was the cold war (though not the worst part of it), a conflict that was wage through proxy fights and occasional invasions more direct interventions. Its supposed to be a bit different now. It the request of the governor-general (not the ruler of the country either defacto or dejure, but arguably within his reserve powers as a representative of the queen (who was then and still is the head of state, though not the head of government, and by several of the nearby countries, OTOH the UK government did not call for intervention and in fact quietly opposed it) and the country afterwords made the invasion day a holiday. Still a bit of an example but perhaps not a great one. Cuba remained an ally and had all sorts of Soviet weapons. They got rid of the nukes but in exchange for the US getting rid of nuclear missiles in Turkey. (a NATO country that was on the Soviet Union's border pretty much for its entire existence). Nuclear missiles are obvious more of an existential threat then a conventional alliance. Esp at such short rangers. Later a more peaceful effort would get shorter ranger nuclear weapons threatening Warsaw Pact and European NATO countries out of Europe. And a conventional alliance isn't really on the table anyway, so its just a matter of being more friendly with the US and EU than with Russia. There wouldn't have been any confrontation around Cuba if if all that happened was a move for it to be more friendly with the USSR than the US.