The Soviet Union viewed their Cuban missiles as a reasonable response to our Turkish missiles.
> The Soviet Union viewed their Cuban missiles as a reasonable response to our Turkish missiles. <
Yes. Many decades ago I took a political science course as an elective. The professor presented many 20th century events from “the other guy’s” point of view. It was a good course, very interesting. He mentioned what you mentioned there.
Another thing he discussed was the 1938 Munich conference, which gave away the Sudetenland to Germany. The USSR was not invited to that conference (it should have been), and that made Stalin think the West was conspiring against him. That did much to lead Stalin to an alliance with Hitler in 1939.
By the way, this professor was a stanch, no-nonsense anti-communist. Probably none of them left in American universities today.