The false Cuban Missile Crisis analogy ...

There is a false analogy between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Russia's alleged fear of offensive missiles in NATO countries bordering Russia. It is believed that Russia has the same right to oppose NATO in its neighbors as the US has in Cuba.
“One of the main problems with this analogy is that the Cuban Missile Crisis happened before there was anything like [accurate] intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Thus, no Soviet missile could hit the continental United States until they sent ICBMs to Cuba ... Russia was threatened for decades by American Intermediate-Range Nuclear Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs), which it [never] launched, [multiple nuclear weapons] signed control treaties with Russia, [which] retained the terms of those treaties (unlike Russia), etc.

“Another problem is that Russia already has nuclear missiles in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which borders Lithuania and Poland and falls under the IRBMs of many other EU and NATO countries. Countries have the right that Russia will invade Kaliningrad because of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union?

“Going back to the Cuba analogy, Castro was so unstable that he actually called on the Soviet Union to launch the first nuclear strike on the United States after Cuba,” she asked, soon considering throwing her nuclear weapons where his hands could reach. in topic.
“Another contradiction is that NATO membership is voluntary. No country will be forced to join NATO against its will, the entry of new members requires the consent of all existing members of NATO, and any member can leave Cuba at any time [on the other hand] Castro was captured after a violent revolution sponsored by the USSR taken, not leaving Cuba no choice but to become an ally of the USSR.

“Moreover, no Soviet ally could ever cease to be a Soviet ally without the consent of the USSR, and none of the other Soviet allies ever had the right to vote. Cuba was a Soviet puppet, completely dependent on the Soviets. Cuba was ruled by the secret police, which was under the command of the Soviet secret police Soviet subsidies amount to billions of dollars annually Cuba remains a one-party state for more than 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, only out of desperation it freed small businesses and replaced old Soviet subsidies with money from Venezuela's oil exports, drug trafficking etc. Cuba sponsored terrorism throughout America and participated in a military adventure in Africa. "Nothing like this has ever happened to NATO members."

~ from Tim Starr 's Twitter feed ( Samizdata hint)

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