ScrewballFreshYou're acting like the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't happen, stop it.
The US should have just accepted the missiles being there instead of throwing a temper tantrum that almost lead to nuclear war. The US was already doing exactly the same thing in Turkey and had already attempted to invade Cuba once. They had every right to put a nuclear deterrent there especially given the US's open aggression towards Cuba. The US's blockade of Cuba was a act of war by anny standards and the americans should count themselves lucky that they weren't bathed in a nuclear inferno due to their reckless actions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the USSR put the missiles in Cuba? Also, wasn't Cuba a communist sympathizer at the time as well? In that case, placing missiles in a location where they can easily hit all major US cities sure sounds like an act of war to me. That would explain the blockade that was put on Cuba. You also seem to forget that the Red Scare was a thing at the time as well. Sure, 50 years later we can say it wasn't as big of an issue as it should have been, but at the time it was a big deal.
Also these "reckless" actions that you claim that the US was taking in this instance were entirely out of self-defense. The only other option that JFK had was to surrender. It wasn't a "temper tantrum" as you somehow have gotten yourself to believe, but the entirety of the Cold War can be more or less be summed up in either a staring match in which the USSR blinked first (kind of an oversimplified version but the idea is still there) or a macho man contest where both sides had to show off who was tougher. In the end it was a little bit of both, but it was still a major gamble on the US side, and we came away with still being the Alpha as history will tell.
I honestly don't want to debate this anymore but if you continue to state what can only be described as radical nonsense, I'll continue to debate and let you know that you're in the wrong.