Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.

Cold War 2.0 heats up.

Last week, the nuclear rhetoric between the U.S. and Russia made some of us feel like we were back in 1962.

Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba,

led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War.

The United States and its president, John F. Kennedy, could not tolerate such weapons placed by a hostile

power on its doorstep and the world only knew years later how close we were to nuclear

war.

Thankfully, both Khrushchev and Kennedy backed down.

With the Soviet leader removing the missiles from Cuba

and the US president agreeing to remove some missiles from Turkey.

Both men realized the folly of playing with mutually assured destruction, and this compromise

likely paved the way to future U.S. Soviet dialogue from Nixon to President Reagan, and

finally to end of the Cold War.

Fast forward more than 60 years later, and we have a U.S. President Donald Trump, who last week stated that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions miring nearly

to Russia. Had Russia attacked the U.S. or an ally? Threatened to do so? No. The supposed repositioning

of the U.S. strategic military assets was in response to a sharp

series of posts made by former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on social media that irritated

President Trump.

The war of words started earlier when Neocon U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham's endless threats against Russia received a response.

And a warning from Medvedev.

Graham, who seemed to love war war more than anything else, posted.

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