Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a fan of either side. I really really don't like how America is overlooking the literal Nazis in Ukraine they are funding while pretending that various legitimate political positions on US social policies are equivalent to "Nazism". But I also don't think any of these things justify invading Ukraine. "Pushing NATO borders on Russia"? Why does that justify invading Ukraine? If every country next to Russia join…
>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.
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...