Gregster
Legacy Member
Huh? Stood up? The USA started the damn thing by putting SM-78 missiles in Italy and Turkey. But wait there is more.. the piss poor attempts at trying to dispose of Castro before that. You had a pissed off Castro that had a country 150km from the USA and had a pissed off USSR that could sweeten the pot for Castro.One stood up to the Soviets during the Cuba missile crisis while the other is Putin's bitch.
Khrushchev wanted a balance of power with the nukes and bombers. The USA at this point in time was still flying Operation Chrome Dome missions 24/7/365 over the Atlantic, Med, North and West...
History has done a good job of spinning the story. Much like Austria convinced the world that Hitler was German and Mozart was Austrian...