I was in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was in the Fifth Grade.
You are correct, there were Soviet nuclear missiles capable of striking much of the United States in Cuba. They also has nuclear equipped tanks, poised to roll onto our Naval Base. And the area was swarming with Soviet submarines as well.
Yup. And yet, the Russophiles, or Americaphobes, or both continue to trot out an equivalence between the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (and they also always neglect to mention that Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014).