It was the Democratic president JFK that was level headed and deliberative about that crisis.
Your heroes, many rightwing Republicans and conservatives of the day, wanted to invade Cuba, deliberately spark a military confrontation, which had a much higher likelihood of ending in a nuclear conflagration than the path the Democratic leader chose.
Let me explain something about Russia to you: for centuries, empire and hegemony in their part of the world has been a Russian aspiration. It does not matter what you think Obama did, or what NATO did. Russians have believed in empire as their destiny since at least Peter the Great, and before. To them, the Ukainians are "little Russians". Little East Slavic brothers needing guidance and leadership.
The fact that Putin wants influence and control over the Ukrainians, the Belarusians, and others in Moscow's sphere of influence did not start because Obama was mean to Russia. Empire, hegemony, and Mastery over Eurasia has been, is, and will be for the foreseeable future, a widespread and enduring trait of the Russian national consciousness.
Blaming Obama and blaming NATO will not change that fundamental tenet.
you explain nothing except Russian nationalism which is well known.
It' why Putin survives despite a lousy economy and sanctions.
You fail to understand that the Uk ( little Russia indeed) is
still a Russian border state.
I'm sure you would want NATO membership for them too -right?
Knowing the fact that you never, ever see any downsides to NATO expansionism, that's a given.
If we had admitted the Uk. into NATO earlier and Russia had annexed Crimea..WTF would have had been our response??
According to Article 5 we'd be warring in Crimea, "little green men" or not.
Frankly I grow weary of your Russiaphobia it's nothing but crybaby-ish. It lacks understanding of geopolitics
Great Powers exist, and the Uk has the unfortunate geographical location of being on Putin's border.
Suppose Putin was meddling in Mexico's election? Do you think we would put up with that?
So way should Putin put up with OUR MEDDLING in the Uk's Euromaiden? why? because you want to be so?
You have no concept of
'sphere's of influence' . You want to treat Russia like some bad dog and whack it's nose to
become servile to the west. It's not going to happen under Putin, but the relationship can be manged
to both of our's advantages over what we have now
Not just Europe, but Russian expansion in the middle east besides Syria, and if you had been paying attention to my "Libyan Interest and News" thread -->
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?76565-Libya-News-and-Interests
you would also see Putin is playing both sides in the Libya Civil war to expand it's interests into N. Africa
along with it's new commercial and strategic ties w/Egypt.
That's what your great leader Obama has done -simply walked away from Russian containment in the ME
and actively bombed Libya into a failed state, while forcing Egypt into closer ties w/the Kremlin
over his insane sanctions on Egypt.
Neither do we simply have to stand back and do nothing like Obama did,or do we have to war under NATO artile 5.
The alternative is what it always has been -diplomacy!
PS your childish "Kennedy was a Democrat" is irrelevant to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Kennedy was a Cold Warrior -but he was smart enough to avoid a war over ICBM's in Cuba.
You and today's Russiaphobes would be screaming to get Russia out of Cuba at any price
because you fail to recognize diplomacy is always the best option over regime change and meddling