History certainly repeats itself, doesn’t it? The number one escalation by NATO in this war that forced Putin to escalate the war with the SMO in February, ‘22? The NATO plans to deploy offensive nuclear missiles in Ukraine.
If you are talking about the Jupiter missiles, when they were deployed the US did not have a dependable ICBM. The Jupiter’s deployment was public. He’ll, I knew about it in 8th grade. The Cold War was real and Soviet expansion was not some Bircher’s delusion. NATO was in no position to successfully resist the Red Army so nukes were the clear option. What the intelligence did not know was that despite successful orbital launches Soviet ICBMs were nowhere near advanced as we thought. The missiles in Cuba were there for the same purpose as ours in Turkey, to deter the other’s using theirs. The major differences were K’s were deployed in secret and while we had no desire or capability of advancing Eastward the Soviets had the desire to advance West, by force if their efforts at political and social infiltration failed.