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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Oh, they were, and we didn't know whether, we had a couple of questions that my uncle asked or asked the CIA, and he asked, Dulles was already gone, but he asked the CIA and he asked his military brass, because they all wanted to go in. Everybody wanted to go in. And my uncle said, my uncle asked to see the aerial photos, and he examined those personally.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

Oh, they were, and we didn't know whether, we had a couple of questions that my uncle asked or asked the CIA, and he asked, Dulles was already gone, but he asked the CIA and he asked his military brass, because they all wanted to go in. Everybody wanted to go in. And my uncle said, my uncle asked to see the aerial photos, and he examined those personally.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that's why it's important to have a leader in the White House who can push back on their bureaucracies. And then he asked them, You know, who's manning those missile sites? And are they Russians? And if they're Russians and we bomb them, isn't it going to force Khrushchev to then go into Berlin?

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that's why it's important to have a leader in the White House who can push back on their bureaucracies. And then he asked them, You know, who's manning those missile sites? And are they Russians? And if they're Russians and we bomb them, isn't it going to force Khrushchev to then go into Berlin?

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that's why it's important to have a leader in the White House who can push back on their bureaucracies. And then he asked them, You know, who's manning those missile sites? And are they Russians? And if they're Russians and we bomb them, isn't it going to force Khrushchev to then go into Berlin?

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that would be the beginning of a cascade of fact that would highly like to end a nuclear confrontation. And the military perhaps said to my uncle, oh, we don't think he'll have the guts to do that. So my uncle was like, that's what you're betting on? And they all wanted him to go in. They wanted him to bomb the sites and then invade Cuba.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that would be the beginning of a cascade of fact that would highly like to end a nuclear confrontation. And the military perhaps said to my uncle, oh, we don't think he'll have the guts to do that. So my uncle was like, that's what you're betting on? And they all wanted him to go in. They wanted him to bomb the sites and then invade Cuba.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that would be the beginning of a cascade of fact that would highly like to end a nuclear confrontation. And the military perhaps said to my uncle, oh, we don't think he'll have the guts to do that. So my uncle was like, that's what you're betting on? And they all wanted him to go in. They wanted him to bomb the sites and then invade Cuba.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And he said, if we bomb those sites, we're going to be killing Russians. And it's going to force, it's going to provoke Russia into some response. And the obvious response is for them to go into Berlin. But the thing that we didn't know then, that we didn't find out until, I think, It was like a 30-year anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Havana.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And he said, if we bomb those sites, we're going to be killing Russians. And it's going to force, it's going to provoke Russia into some response. And the obvious response is for them to go into Berlin. But the thing that we didn't know then, that we didn't find out until, I think, It was like a 30-year anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Havana.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And he said, if we bomb those sites, we're going to be killing Russians. And it's going to force, it's going to provoke Russia into some response. And the obvious response is for them to go into Berlin. But the thing that we didn't know then, that we didn't find out until, I think, It was like a 30-year anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Havana.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And what we learned then was that from the Russians who came to that event, it was like a symposium where everybody on both sides talked about it. And we learned a lot of stuff that nobody knew before. One of the insane things, the most insane thing that we learned was that the weapons were already, the nuclear warheads were already in place. They were ready to fire.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And what we learned then was that from the Russians who came to that event, it was like a symposium where everybody on both sides talked about it. And we learned a lot of stuff that nobody knew before. One of the insane things, the most insane thing that we learned was that the weapons were already, the nuclear warheads were already in place. They were ready to fire.

3602.462 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And what we learned then was that from the Russians who came to that event, it was like a symposium where everybody on both sides talked about it. And we learned a lot of stuff that nobody knew before. One of the insane things, the most insane thing that we learned was that the weapons were already, the nuclear warheads were already in place. They were ready to fire.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that the authorization to fire was made, was delegated to each of the gun crew commanders. So there were 60 people who at all had authorization to fire if they felt themselves under attack. So you have to believe that at least one of them would have launched, and that would have been the beginning of the end. And if anybody had launched, we knew what would happen.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that the authorization to fire was made, was delegated to each of the gun crew commanders. So there were 60 people who at all had authorization to fire if they felt themselves under attack. So you have to believe that at least one of them would have launched, and that would have been the beginning of the end. And if anybody had launched, we knew what would happen.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that the authorization to fire was made, was delegated to each of the gun crew commanders. So there were 60 people who at all had authorization to fire if they felt themselves under attack. So you have to believe that at least one of them would have launched, and that would have been the beginning of the end. And if anybody had launched, we knew what would happen.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

My uncle knew what would happen, because he asked again and again, what's going to happen? And they said, 30 million Americans will be killed, but we will kill 130 million Russians, so we will win. And that was a victory for them.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

My uncle knew what would happen, because he asked again and again, what's going to happen? And they said, 30 million Americans will be killed, but we will kill 130 million Russians, so we will win. And that was a victory for them.

3657.833 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

My uncle knew what would happen, because he asked again and again, what's going to happen? And they said, 30 million Americans will be killed, but we will kill 130 million Russians, so we will win. And that was a victory for them.

3657.833 View full episode β†’