Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the weekly report.

We need a peace president.

Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban

Missile Crisis.

Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days when Soviet

missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the US and the USSR.

In those days we were told that we were in a life or death struggle with communism

and thus could not seed a square foot of territory or the dominoes would fall one by one until

the reds ruled over us.

That crisis was very real to me as I was drafted into the military in the middle of the US

USSR standoff over Cuba and we could all feel how close we were to annihilation.

Fortunately we had a president in the White House at the time who understood the dangers

of nuclear breakmanship.

Even though he was surrounded by hawks who could never forgive him for aborting the idiotic

Bay of Pigs Cuban invasion, President John F. Kennedy picked up the telephone for a discussion

with his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev, which eventually saved the world.

Historians now tell us that President Kennedy agreed to remove US missiles from Turkey in

exchange for the Soviets removing missiles from Cuba.

It was a classic case of how diplomacy can work if properly employed.

It's all too clear that we do not have a John F. Kennedy in the White House today.

Although we no longer face a Soviet empire and a communist ideology as justification for

taking a confrontational tone toward Russia, the Biden administration is still dragging

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