Ah yes. Remember the Cuban missle crisis?
It ended when the Soviet Union agreed to remove their missiles from Cuba, We declared victory.
AND
It ended when we agreed to remove our missiles from Turkey, the Soviet Union declared victory.
Win-win...
Kuddos to you for remembering why the Soviets put missiles in Cuba. It was a response to the NATO escalation of putting missiles on the Soviet border. Let’s see, according to Putin, why did he launch his SMO? He launched to prevent NATO missiles on his border, mere seconds away from Moscow. We’re repeating the history we did not learn from.
It ended when we agreed to remove our missiles from Turkey, the Soviet Union declared victory.
It ended when we agreed to remove our missiles from Turkey AND Italy.
But.... did we? Seems there were quite a few, a few years back in a vault at Incirlik— and supposedly removed. AF never revealed, but the were major concerns when Erdogan thought he had military coup on his hands. US AFB Incirlik, Turkey (a supposed NATO county- which keeps rocking the boat with islamofascist/caliphate dreams of Erdogan).
Friend, years ago told of flying a spec op into Soviet russia from there— big chopper. Team unbolted an entire phased array radar from it’s support and they flew it out. The Cold War.