Originally Posted by
at6d
Don’t forget that the Cuban missile crisis had a deal in it. The USA had to agree to remove its missiles from Turkey, which were pointed at Russia.
Indeed. On a related note, I straight up stole this from twitter:
“It’s October 1962. We tell USSR we won’t tolerate nukes in Cuba. Russia points to our missiles in Turkey, says Cuba is an independent country that can make its own security choices. We tell them it’s not going to happen, period. They persist, we attack Cuba. Who started the war?“
IMHO, The US insane expansion of NATO to the borders of Russia precipitated this humanitarian crisis. Luminaries like H Kissinger have been sounding the alarms about this since at least 2014.