Behind the outbreak of violence in the United States is a lethal cocktail of psychosis, easy access to firearms and hateful ideologies (racism, misogyny, homophobia), that the killer has thrown together himself.
The cash that the CIA gave to Poland 'for the prisons' was defrauded. The testimony extracted under torture turned out to be fairly worthless. The airport in Szymany went under despite U.S. financing. What’s left is a big stench.
More than 50 years have passed since the Cuban missile crisis. Now it seems like a far-away episode of the past that has little instructive value for the present. But in fact, it's quite the opposite.