At the height of the Cuban missile crisis, Premier Nikita Khrushchev wrote to President John F. Kennedy, “I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction.”
Warning of the “knot of war,” he continued, “a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it. … Let us take measures to untie that knot. We are ready for this.”
Such words from President Vladimir Putin are unimaginable.
