I hate to tell you, but in the big picture we only broke even in what’s known as the Cuban Missile Crises. A lot of the “history” is designed to make Democrat JFK look good and tough in the face of Soviet “aggression”.
Here’s the sequence of events that make up the bigger picture starting before the October events known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis”:
1. U.S. missiles to Turkey
2. Soviet missiles to Cuba
3. Soviet missiles withdrawn from Cuba
4. 6 month delay
5. U.S. missiles withdrawn from Turkey.
Our missiles were withdrawn quietly with no U.S. press and 6 months after the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba per the agreement between Kennedy and Khrushcev. But don’t kid yourself, Khrushchev got what he wanted, which to was to get those missiles out of Turkey.
nice conscice lay-out, there.
I was on my phone trying to transcribe what you typed out, thank you!
Most Americans don’t know that.