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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
It's difficult to fully perceive the comparison.
The short story of the 1962 Missile Crisis was that the US had installed nuclear missiles in Turkey (a NATO member) in 1961, to target the Soviet Union....
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
I'd say the first of the fundamental differences is that ultimately the US didn't force Cuba to do more than give ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
They are pretty much unrelated.
So first of all the Cuban missile crisis happened (~60 years ago) in the context of the cold war. Which at least superficially was an ideological and military conflict ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
Let's start with similarities first: Cuba and Ukraine both had recently changed regimes, going from US aligned to USSR aligned in Cuba and from Russia aligned to US/NATO aligned in Ukraine. Both these ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
They are very, very, unrelated.
1962 Cuba was a nuclear crisis in which the US sought to stop the establishment of nearby Soviet nuclear missile bases (akin to those deployed by the US itself in ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a defensive move by the USSR. The USSR placed missiles in Cuba primarily to counter U.S. missiles stationed in Turkey and Italy, which threatened Soviet territory. This ...
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