[protomolecule]

>If every country next to Russia joined NATO, that still wouldn't justify it.

The US was going to start WW3 over Cuba becoming an ally of the USSR.

[geokon]

I always found this part confusing bc the US had placed missiles in Turkey beforehand

However the crux of the issue wasn't that there were missiles but that the missiles were placed secretly.

There is a nice podcast series about it

https://www.historyextra.com/podcast-series/cuban-missile-cr...