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>As for the rest: sometimes geopolitics and morality aligns. This is one of those cases, IMHO.

It always aligns for the US because that's how the US and it's people spin it. When has it not aligned? Never. WMDs in iraq were totally real.

>Unless I am misremembering the history, the missiles on Cuba were nuclear missiles. These are purely offensive weapons that have very little defensive capabilities.

So if china had a carrier off the coast of california with artillery pointed towards SF it wouldn't be a big deal because artillery is not nuclear? It's a physical threat and both justify extreme reactions.

I would also note that the US had missiles pointing at Russia during the crisis and the Russian reaction was nowhere as extreme or public. So really what occurred here it the US was the provocateur and the Cuban missile crisis was what Russia did to alleviate the crisis. Both the cuban and the missiles pointing at Russia were removed as part of the deal. In this case Russia took steps towards peace.