the craziest part of the Blowback Cuba season for me was the transcripts from the Kennedy White House meetings during the crisis
Lots of "blah blah why would Khrushchev do this, I just don't understand what he's thinking, the madman" etc.
straight up "our rational self-defense posture, their bloodthirsty warmongering" with absolutely zero self-awareness
"manifesto" is kinda overselling it