They served both sides, sometimes it just depended on whose land was where.
People of that time spoke "Aramic", they did not speak Hebrew due to their captivity by the Arabic Babylonians, and they adopted the language over time, but that was not the language or writing used for the 10 commandments. The commandments were written in Proto-Aramic.
The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 16, 1962, was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States.
