I didn't get what are trying to say? Can you be more specific?
Cuba missile crisis was in 1962. It's old. I wasn't even born yet. In fact my parents hadn't even met yet. In fact they were still little children back then.
If your really need to delve 60 years in the past for a gotcha, then it's a weak gotcha, is what I'm saying.
Actually USSR wanted to talk about jupiter missiles, but US wouldn't budge.
After the bays of pigs fiasco in 1961, Castro reached out to USSR and USSR seized this opportunity.
Yep, that was pretty clever of the Soviets back then. Hence why I say this was solved with a good compromise. Everyone's posture got less threatening, at least until the next crisis (the Euromissile one), which also got solved reasonably by the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Back then, both sides knew to be reasonable.
I don't see bright future for Russia if sanctions on them aren't rolled back.
Indeed, but that really shows how poorly Russia has been managed these last couple decades. Putin got his popularity from, supposedly, "Making Russia Great Again" after its plunder in the 1990s. On paper, Russia has everything it needs to be an economic powerhouse: a good level of education (Russian science and engineering have quite a prestigious reputation), a quite large population (about as big as France and Germany combined), and a colossal amount of natural resources so that they could be self-sufficient.
Instead, they did worse than stagnate, they regressed. Their economy was rebuilt but only through the sale of raw natural resources (oil and gas, but also timber and grain), their industry never innovated or even caught up with the West, they became fully dependent on manufactured products from the West... and then Putin decided to side with China and start fighting the West.
The problem with that choice is while Russia is large and resourceful, they seem to have forgotten that The Collective West is even larger and more resourceful. Here's a fun little exercise you can do: grab a spreadsheet, grab lists of countries by GDP and by population size, and then make the sum of every country that's in The Collective West. For this exercise, I defined the collective west as being every country that is fully integrated economically and socially into the Western system, meaning anything that is in at least one of the following organizations: NATO, EU, EFTA; plus the "Five Eyes" countries, and finally Japan and South Korea. I got over 8 times the Russian population, and over 32 times the Russian GDP. But even if only keeping the North America + Europe countries of that group, and removing Turkey that is kind of a rogue NATO member, I still have over 6 times the Russian population and 27 times the Russian GDP.
So basically, there are two reasons why Russia doesn't have a bright future: the first is because it is corruption-ridden and mismanaged, the second is because it has decided the only way to reassert itself was to pick a fight with the most prosperous nations on Earth. If
I had been in Putin's shoes, I would have applied the good old principle of "if you can't beat them, join them" but of course that is not the way I could have built myself a gigantic palace on Cape Idokopas...
Putin is an imbecile.
