A month and 60 years ago, the world almost came to an end. The Soviet Union had deployed ballistic missiles in Cuba, the United States imposed a quarantine around the island and both sides contemplated the annihilation of the other before a peaceful resolution was found. We called it the Cuban Missile Crisis.
But you don’t have to be a Marxist revolutionary to question this narrative. The placement of missiles in a sovereign country, albeit one 90 miles south of Florida, was not in itself an act of war. Indeed, the US had its own stationed in Turkey.
